Corporate Social and Human Rights Responsibilities: Global Legal and Management Perspectives

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Introduction....Pages 1-22
Front Matter....Pages 23-23
Conceptualizing the Home State Duty to Protect Human Rights....Pages 25-51
‘A Necessary Supplement’ — What the United Nations Global Compact Is (and Is Not)....Pages 52-76
Balancing Power Interests in Reflexive Law Public-Private CSR Schemes: The Global Compact and the EU’s Multi-Stakeholder Forum on CSR....Pages 77-107
‘Protect, Respect and Remedy’: A Critique of the SRSG’s Framework for Business and Human Rights....Pages 108-126
Front Matter....Pages 127-127
Corporate Social Responsibility in Africa: A Fig Leaf or a New Development Path Worth Pursuing?....Pages 129-143
It’s Our Business: Ensuring Inclusiveness in the Process of Regulating and Enforcing Corporate Social Responsibility....Pages 144-164
Public Procurement, International Labour Law and Free Movement in EU Law: Protect, Respect and Remedy....Pages 165-184
Business Responsibilities and Human Rights in Latin America: Lessons and Inspiration for the Future....Pages 185-201
Front Matter....Pages 203-203
Business Commitments in CSR Codes of Conduct and International Framework Agreements: The Case of Human Rights....Pages 205-221
Regulating the Levers of Globalization: Integrating Corporate Social Responsibility into the Capital-Raising Process....Pages 222-243
Institutionalization of Corporate Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility Programmes in Firms....Pages 244-265
The Organization of CSR as a Means of Corporate Control: From Do-Gooding Sideshow to Mainstream?....Pages 266-287
Back Matter....Pages 288-293