This paper contextualises current debates over human rights and transnational corporations. More specifically, we begin by first providing the background to John Ruggie's appointment as ‘Special Representative of the Secretary-General on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations...

The growing global prominence of Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs) makes it increasingly important to recognize that multinational corporations (MNCs) can be subject to conflicting human rights pressures at the transnational, national, and intra-organizational levels. We here construct a...