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.