Corporate social and human rights responsibilities: global, legal and management perspectives

This book challenges the separation between CSR and law. It also demonstratesthat BRHR may be gradually separating from CSR through emphasis on state obligations. Authors from around the world discuss how businesses engage in CSR and human rights, and how governments and intergovernmental organisations may support business in taking responsibility KARIN BUHMANN (Ph.d. at the University of Aarhus, Department of Law (2001); Master of International Law at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Lund/Sweden; degrees in Law and East Asian Studies from the University of Copenhagen) is an Associate Professor at the University ofCopenhagen. She has published extensively on CSR and on human rights. LYNN ROSEBERRY (Ph.d. at Copenhagen Business School (CBS), 1999) is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Law at CBS. Roseberry has contributed to international anthologies and in Danish publications on national and internationalanti-discrimination and labour law issues. METTE MORSING (Ph.d. at CopenhagenBusiness School (CBS), 1993) is Professor and Director of CBS Center for Corporate Social Responsibility (cbsCSR) at CBS. Morsing has published extensivelyin books and international journals on issues of CSR, ethics, organization, identity and communication. Morsing is a member of a number of national and international committees and boards on issues of CSR. INDICE: Introduction; 'K.Buhmann, L.Roseberry '&' M.Morsing' - PART I: SETTING THE STAGE - Conceptualizing the Home State Duty to Protect Human Rights; 'S.Seck' - 'A necessary supplement' - What the United Nations Global Compact Is and Is Not; 'A.Rasche' - Balancing Power Interests in Reflexive Law Public-private CSR-schemes: The Global Compact and the EU's Multi-Stakeholder Forum onCSR; 'K.Buhmann' - 'Protect, Respect and Remedy': A Critique of the SRSG's Framework for Business and Human Rights; 'S.Deva' - PART II: REGIONAL PERSPECTIVES - Corporate Social Responsibility in Africa: A Fig Leaf or a New Development Path Worth Pursuing?; 'W.Kimathi - 'It's our Business: Ensuring Inclusiveness in the Process of Regulating and Enforcing Corporate Social Responsibility; 'C.Sidoti' - Public Procurement, International Labour Law and Free Movement inEU Law: Respect, Protect and Remedy; 'R.Nielsen' - Business Responsibilities and Human Rights in Latin America: Lessons and Inspiration for the Future; 'C.Anicama' - PART III: COMBINING LAW AND MANAGEMENT - Business Commitments in CSR Codes of Conduct and International Framework Agreements: the Case of Human Rights; 'D.Bé - 'Regulating the Levers of Globalization: Integrating Corporate Social Responsibility into the Capital-Raising Process; 'L.Caplan' - Institutionalisation of Corporate Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility Programs in Firms; 'J.D.Rendtorff' - The Organization of CSR as a Means of Corporate Control: From Do-Gooding Sideshow to Mainstream; 'J. S. Knudsen'

• ISBN: 978-0-230-23089-7
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 312
• Fecha Publicación: 08/12/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Desconocido