The Business of Human Rights: An Evolving Agenda for Corporate Responsibility

Aurora Voiculescu (Curatore)

Helen Yanacopulos (Curatore)

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2011

In a time when multinational corporations have become truly globalised, demands for global standards on their behaviour are increasingly difficult to dismiss. Work conditions in sweatshops, widespread destruction of the environment, and pharmaceutical trials in third world countries are only the tip of the iceberg. This timely collection of essays addresses the interface between the calls for corporate social responsibility (CSR) and the demands for an extension of international human rights standards. Scholars from a vast variety of backgrounds provide expert yet accessible accounts of questions of law, politics, economics and international relations and how they relate to one another, while also encouraging non-legal perspectives on how businesses operate within and around human rights. The result is an essential incursion for a wide range of scholars, practitioners and students in law, development, business studies and international studies, in this emerging area of human rights.

• Curatore: Aurora Voiculescu, Helen Yanacopulos
• Editore: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Anno: 2011
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 256 p.
• Dimensioni: 214 x 138 mm
• Peso: 340 gr.
• EAN: 9781848138629

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