Corporate Social and Human Rights Responsibilities

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Karin Buhmann, Lynn Roseberry, Mette Morsing

      Pages 1-22

3. Setting the Stage

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 23-23

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   2. Conceptualizing the Home State Duty to Protect Human Rights

      • Sara L. Seck

      Pages 25-51

   3. ‘A Necessary Supplement’ — What the United Nations Global Compact Is (and Is Not)

      • Andreas Rasche

      Pages 52-76

   4. Balancing Power Interests in Reflexive Law Public-Private CSR Schemes: The Global Compact and the EU’s Multi-Stakeholder Forum on CSR

      • Karin Buhmann

      Pages 77-107

   5. ‘Protect, Respect and Remedy’: A Critique of the SRSG’s Framework for Business and Human Rights

      • Surya Deva

      Pages 108-126

4. Regional Perspectives

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 127-127

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   2. Corporate Social Responsibility in Africa: A Fig Leaf or a New Development Path Worth Pursuing?

      • Wambui Kimathi

      Pages 129-143

   3. It’s Our Business: Ensuring Inclusiveness in the Process of Regulating and Enforcing Corporate Social Responsibility

      • Chris Sidoti

      Pages 144-164

   4. Public Procurement, International Labour Law and Free Movement in EU Law: Protect, Respect and Remedy

      • Ruth Nielsen

      Pages 165-184

   5. Business Responsibilities and Human Rights in Latin America: Lessons and Inspiration for the Future

      • Cecilia Anicama

      Pages 185-201

5. Combining Law and Management

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 203-203

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   2. Business Commitments in CSR Codes of Conduct and International Framework Agreements: The Case of Human Rights

      • Dominique Bé

      Pages 205-221

   3. Regulating the Levers of Globalization: Integrating Corporate Social Responsibility into the Capital-Raising Process

      • Lauren Caplan

      Pages 222-243

   4. Institutionalization of Corporate Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility Programmes in Firms

      • Jacob D. Rendtorff

      Pages 244-265

   5. The Organization of CSR as a Means of Corporate Control: From Do-Gooding Sideshow to Mainstream?

      • Jette S. Knudsen

      Pages 266-287

6. Back Matter

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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

• business
• corporate social responsibility
• ethics
• European Union (EU)
• human rights
• labour law
• management
• Organisation
• organization
• organizations
• stakeholder

• University of Copenhagen, Denmark

  Karin Buhmann

• Copenhagen Business School, Denmark

  Lynn Roseberry, Mette Morsing

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 of Copenhagen. 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 international anti-discrimination and labour law issues.


METTE MORSING (Ph.d. at Copenhagen Business School (CBS), 1993) is Professor and Director of CBS Center for Corporate Social Responsibility (cbsCSR) at CBS. Morsing has published extensively in 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.

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