Florian Wettstein

Business and Human Rights Business and Human Rights (eBook, PDF)

Ethical, Legal, and Managerial Perspectives

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The first of its kind, this comprehensive interdisciplinary textbook in Business and Human Rights (BHR) connects and integrates themes, discussions, and issues in BHR from both legal and non-legal perspectives, and provides a solid foundation for cross-disciplinary conversations. It equips students, teachers, and scholars with the necessary knowledge to navigate and advance evolving BHR debates, and fosters a thorough understanding of the academic foundations, evolving policy spaces, and practical approaches in BHR. Short cases throughout translate conceptual insights into practical solutions. Study, reflection, and discussion questions help readers to consolidate and synthesize their understanding of the material and provide stimulating frameworks for debate in the classroom and beyond. The book features a collection of online resources to support students and instructors in their preparation for courses and assignments.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009177979
• Artikelnr.: 66177337

Autorenporträt

Florian Wettstein is a professor of business ethics and Director of the Institute for Business Ethics at the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland. Florian has published widely on topics at the intersection of corporate responsibility, business ethics, and business and human rights, and has been involved in numerous practical and policy initiatives and projects on those topics. He is the author of Multinational Corporations and Global Justice: Human Rights Obligations of a Quasi-Governmental Institution (2009) and Editor-in-Chief of the Business and Human Rights Journal (BHRJ).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Boxes
1. Introduction: learning and unlearning business and human rights
Part I. Foundations
2. BHR: emergence and history of a movement
3. A brief introduction of human rights
Part II. Setting the scene
4. Corporate human rights violations: direct and indirect
5. Corporate human rights violations: overview of issues
Part III. Corporate human rights responsibility
6. Justification of corporate human rights responsibility
7. Nature and extent of corporate human rights responsibility
8. Operationalizing and implementing human rights responsibility at the corporate level
Part IV. Corporate human rights accountability
9. Transnational governance and corporate human rights accountability: preliminary questions and foundational issues
10. The un guiding principles on BHR: foundations, contemplations, critique
11. Further international soft-law standards and voluntary initiatives
12. Home state solutions
13. International law-based solutions
Part V. Selected industries and emerging discussions
14. Industry-specific issues and challenges
15. Emerging discussions and narratives
16. Conclusion: building back better
Helpful online resources and blogs on business and human rights
References of court cases
Glossary
Bibliography
Index.