Corporate power and human rights / edited by Manette Kaisershot, Nicholas Connolly. - x, 230 pages ; 26 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index

1. Introduction : corporate power and human rights / Nicholas Connolly and Manette Kaisershot --
2. Corporate human rights commitments and the psychology of business acceptance of human rights duties : a multi-industry analysis / Kendyl Salcito, Chris Wielga and Burton H. Singer --
3. Extreme energy, 'fracking' and human rights : a new field for human rights impact assessments? / Damien Short [and others] --
4. 'From naming and shaming to knowing and showing' : human rights and the power of corporate practice / Christian Scheper --
5. Global production, CSR and human rights : the courts of public opinion and the social licence to operate / Sally Wheeler --
6. These are financial times : a human rights perspective on the UK financial services sector / Manette Kaisershot and Samuel Prout --
7. Company-created remedy mechanisms for serious human rights abuses : a promising new frontier for the right to remedy? / Sarah Knuckey and Eleanor Jenkin --
8. Beyond the 100 Acre Wood : in which international human rights law finds new ways to tame global corporate power / Daniel Augenstein and David Kinley --
9. CSR is dead : long live Pigouvian taxation / Nicholas Connolly --
10. Defending corporate social responsibility : Myanmar and the lesser evil / Andrew Fagan.

CAS Bachelor of Arts in Political Science


Text in English

9781138655027 (pbk)


Corporations -- Political aspects.
Corporate power.
Human rights.
Corporations -- Sociological aspects.
Social responsibility of business.

338.74 C81 2016