Business and Human Rights (eBook, ePUB)

Dilemmas and Solutions
Redaktion: Sullivan, Rory; Robinson, Mary

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This title provides an analysis of the relationship between companies and human rights in the context of globalisation. It maps the reasons (financial, ethical, regulatory) why human rights have are on the business agenda and looks at the practical experiences of companies in responding to specific issues in the context of their own operations.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. September 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351281263
• Artikelnr.: 49265506

Autorenporträt

Mary Robinson, Rory Sullivan

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Mary Robinson
Executive Director
Ethical Globalisation Initiative; former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights 1. Introduction Rory Sullivan
Insight Investment
UK 2. The evolution of the business and human rights debate Sir Geoffrey Chandler
UK 3. The development of human rights responsibilities for multinational enterprises Peter Muchlinski
University of Kent at Canterbury
UK 4. Human rights
trade and multinational corporations David Kinley and Adam McBeth
Castan Centre for Human Rights Law
Monash University
Australia 5. Human rights and business: an ethical analysis Denis G. Arnold
University of Tennessee
USA 6. The ability of corporations to protect human rights in developing countries Frans-Paul van der Putten
Gemma Crijns and Harry Hummels
Nyenrode University
The Netherlands 7. What is the attitude of investment markets to corporate performance on human rights? David Coles
Just Pensions
UK 8. From the inside looking out: a management perspective on human rights Rory Sullivan
Insight Investment
UK
and Nina Seppala
Warwick Business School
UK 9. Corporate social responsibility failures in the oil industry Charles Woolfson
University of Glasgow
UK
and Matthias Beck
Glasgow Caledonian University
UK 10. Mining in conflict zones Simon Handelsman
Global Issues Advisors
USA 11. Health
business and human rights: the responsibility of health professionals within the corporation Norbert Goldfield
3M Health Information Systems
USA 12. Privatising infrastructure development: "development refugees" and the resettlement challenge Christopher McDowell
Macquarie University
Australia 13. The contribution of multinationals to the fight against HIV/AIDS Steven Lim and Michael Cameron
University of Waikato
New Zealand 14. Elimination of child labour: business and local communities Bahar Ali Kazmi and Magnus Macfarlane
Warwick Business School
UK 15. SA8000: human rights in the workplace Deborah Leipziger
consultant
The Netherlands
and Eileen Kaufman
Social Accountability International
USA 16. Corporate responsibility and social capital: the nexus dilemma in Mexican maquiladoras Luis Reygadas
Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana Iztapalapa
Mexico 17. From fuelling conflict to oiling the peace: harnessing the peace-building potential of extractive sector companies operating in conflict zones Jessica Banfield
International Alert
UK 18. Extracting conflict Gary MacDonald
Monkey Forest Consulting Ltd
Canada
and Timothy McLaughlin
independent consultant
USA 19. Managing risk and building trust: the challenge of implementing the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights Bennett Freeman
Former US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy
Human Rights and Labor
and Genoveva Hernandez Uriz
European University Institute
Italy 20. Taking responsibility for bribery: the multinational corporation's role in combating corruption David Hess
University of Michigan Business School
USA
and Thomas Dunfee
University of Pennsylvania
USA 21. Taking the business and human rights agenda to the limit? The Body Shop and Amnesty International "Make Your Mark" campaign Heike Fabig
University of Sussex
UK
and Richard Boele
Australian Institute of Corporate Citizenship 22. Moving forwards Rory Sullivan
Insight Investment
UK Bibliography