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.
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.
1. Human Rights in Business Contexts: An Overview - Aurora
Voiculescu and Helen Yanacopulos
2. Human Rights and the Normative Ordering of Global Capitalism -
Aurora Voiculescu
3. Brands, Corporate Social Responsibility and Reputation
Management - Fiona Harris
4. Transforming Labour Standards to Labour Rights - Piya Pangsapa
and Mark J. Smith
5. Violent Corporate Crime, Corporate Social Responsibility and
Human Rights - Gary Slapper
6. Access to Medicines: Intellectual Property Rights, Human Rights
and Justice - Keren Bright and Lois Muragur
7. Foundations: Actors of Change? - Helen Yanacopulos
8. Combating Transnational Corporate Corruption: Enhancing Human
Rights and Good Governance - John Hatchard
9. Business in Zones of Conflict: An Emergent Corporate Security
Responsibility? - Nicole Dietelhoff and Klaus Deiter Wolf
10. Human Rights, Ethics and International Business: the Case of
Nigeria - Olufemi Amao
11. Clusters of Injustice: Human Rights, Environmental
Sustainability and Labour Standards - Mark J. Smith and Piya
Pangsapa
An essential text that provides a human rights approach to corporate responsibilities across the globe.
Aurora Voiculescu is an academic in the Centre for Law at Open University Business School and an Associate Research Fellow at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford University. Between 1999 and 2003 she was a British Academy Post-doctoral Fellow in Law at Lincoln College, Oxford University. Her teaching, research work and publications are in the area of human rights, in particular in connection to collective and corporate agency and responsibility. Her research focuses on the interplay between the human rights discourse and the global market agencies such as the Transnational Corporations and the intergovernmental economic and financial institutions. She is the author of Human Rights and Political Justice in Post-Communist Eastern Europe: Prosecuting History (2000), co-editor (with Doreen McBarnet and Tom Campbell) of The New Corporate Accountability: Corporate Social Responsibility and the Law (2007). Helen Yanacopulos is a Senior Lecturer in International Politics and Development at the Open University. She worked in finance in the corporate and the not-for-profit sectors before her PhD in Social and Political Sciences at the University of Cambridge. Her research focuses on how political institutions and processes involve and affect people in the South, specifically in Africa and Asia. She is co-author of the forthcoming book International Development Actors and Public Engagement , and co-editor (with Joe Hanlon) of Civil War, Civil Peace (2005). She has acted as a consultant to various international agencies in matters of civil society, labour and human rights.
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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