Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Translations -- List of figures and tables -- Abbreviations and acronyms -- 1 Global Rules-private actors: The role of the MNC in global governance -- 2 Mapping the theoretical foundations for defining the role of the MNC in a global economy -- 3 Bridging theory and practice: Developing an assessment tool for corporate citizenship -- 4 Assessing Corporate Citizenship: An Empirical Study of Swiss UNGC Participants -- 5 Discussion of the empirical findings -- 6 Refining the assessment tool -- 7 Conclusions and further research -- Bibliography -- Appendix -- Author biography -- Index -- Back cover.