When an individual has suffered a violation of her human rights by or involving corporations, she should have recourse to a court or quasi-judicial mechanism to enforce responsibility of perpetrator. It appears that the victims of human rights violations by or involving corporations have...

Implementation of the concept of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has become important for all stakeholders and an important part of company’s businesses and reporting. Little research attention is given to the research about CSR from employees' perspective and to the influence of CSR to...

Despite the fact that numerous studies have been conducted exploring possible relationship between corporate social responsibility and profitability, there is no research focusing on the relationship between code of conduct and financial performance. For this reason, the following research...

Der UN Global Compact hat sich das Ziel gesetzt, die gesellschaftliche Verantwortung von Unternehmen zu fördern. Die Partnerschaft zwischen den Vereinten Nationen und Unternehmen versteht sich vornehmlich als Lernplattform, welche Unternehmen nutzen können, um sich über Maßnahmen zu ihrer...

The United Nations Global Compact (GC) is an international learning network that links companies with United Nations agencies, labour and civil society. Neither a regulatory regime nor a voluntary code of industry conduct, it is a unique contribution to the process of global governance, where...

This article examines how the international business (IB) literature has addressed social responsibility issues in the past 50 years, highlighting key developments and implications from a historical perspective. Specific attention is paid to the Journal of World Business (JWB), which has covered...

The substantial growth in riches of the wealthy 1% is a contributing factor to the vast majority of the global population living at a subsistence level. A strategy in regards to the fair distribution of wealth is proposed to address this matter which requires the Executives of the world to...