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

This book challenges the separation between CSR and law. It also demonstrates that 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. What has the law to do with Corporate Social Responsibility? Do Business Responsibilities for Human Rights (BRHR, with an acronym introduced in the book) differ from CSR? This book challenges the separation between CSR and law. It also demonstrates that 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 businesses in taking responsibility. In this book, you will find a group of exciting chapters written by management scholars, lawyers, CSR practitioners and business ethicists. Drawing on cases from around the world, they want to set a new agenda regarding divergence and convergence between CSR, BRHR, and the law Cover......Page 1 Contents......Page 6 List of Tables and Figures......Page 8 Preface......Page 9 Acknowledgements......Page 12 Contributors......Page 13 Introduction......Page 18 Part I: Setting the Stage......Page 40 1 Conceptualizing the Home State Duty to Protect Human Rights......Page 42 2 'A Necessary Supplement’ – What the United Nations Global Compact Is (and Is Not)......Page 69 3 Balancing Power Interests in Reflexive Law Public-Private CSR Schemes: The Global Compact and the EU’s Multi-Stakeholder Forum on CSR......Page 94 4 'Protect, Respect and Remedy’: A Critique of the SRSG’s Framework for Business and Human Rights......Page 125 Part II: Regional Perspectives......Page 144 5 Corporate Social Responsibility in Africa: A Fig Leaf or a New Development Path Worth Pursuing?......Page 146 6 It’s Our Business: Ensuring Inclusiveness in the Process of Regulating and Enforcing Corporate Social Responsibility......Page 161 7 Public Procurement, International Labour Law and Free Movement in EU Law: Protect, Respect and Remedy......Page 182 8 Business Responsibilities and Human Rights in Latin America: Lessons and Inspiration for the Future......Page 202 Part III: Combining Law and Management......Page 220 9 Business Commitments in CSR Codes of Conduct and International Framework Agreements: The Case of Human Rights......Page 222 10 Regulating the Levers of Globalization: Integrating Corporate Social Responsibility into the Capital-Raising Process......Page 239 11 Institutionalization of Corporate Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility Programmes in Firms......Page 261 12 The Organization of CSR as a Means of Corporate Control: From Do-Gooding Sideshow to Mainstream?......Page 283 Index......Page 305