In a time when multinational corporations have become truly globalised, demands for global standards on their behaviour are increasingly difficult to dismiss. Work conditions in sweatshops, widespread destruction of the environment, and pharmaceutical trials in third world countries are only the tip of the iceberg.
This timely collection of essays addresses the interface between the calls for corporate social responsibility (CSR) and the demands for an extension of international human rights standards. Scholars from a vast variety of backgrounds provide expert yet accessible accounts of questions of law, politics, economics and international relations and how they relate to one another, while also encouraging non-legal perspectives on how businesses operate within and around human rights.
The result is an essential incursion for a wide range of scholars, practitioners and students in law, development, business studies and international studies, in this emerging area of human rights.
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An essential text that provides a human rights approach to corporate responsibilities across the globe.
1. Human Rights in Business Contexts: An Overview - Aurora Voiculescu and Helen Yanacopulos2. Human Rights and the Normative Ordering of Global Capitalism - Aurora Voiculescu3. Brands, Corporate Social Responsibility and Reputation Management - Fiona Harris4. Transforming Labour Standards to Labour Rights - Piya Pangsapa and Mark J. Smith5. Violent Corporate Crime, Corporate Social Responsibility and Human Rights - Gary Slapper6. Access to Medicines: Intellectual Property Rights, Human Rights and Justice - Keren Bright and Lois Muragur7. Foundations: Actors of Change? - Helen Yanacopulos8. Combating Transnational Corporate Corruption: Enhancing Human Rights and Good Governance - John Hatchard9. Business in Zones of Conflict: An Emergent Corporate Security Responsibility? - Nicole Dietelhoff and Klaus Deiter Wolf10. Human Rights, Ethics and International Business: the Case of Nigeria - Olufemi Amao11. Clusters of Injustice: Human Rights, Environmental Sustainability and Labour Standards - Mark J. Smith and Piya Pangsapa
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'This book provides a very good selection of the range of issues of corporate responsibility in the area of human rights. The authors offer insightful engagement with a variety of issues based on application to relevant examples in practice and from different perspectives.'
Robert McCorquodale, Professor of International Law and Human Rights, University of Nottingham
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781848138629
Publisert
2011-01-13
Utgiver
Vendor
Zed Books Ltd
Høyde
216 mm
Bredde
138 mm
Aldersnivå
05, 06, U, P
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
256