Increasingly, there is awareness that corruption and human rights are intimately connected. However, the debates and reform proposals on improving corporations’ social performance in these two areas are often treated as separate concerns. This article argues that companies must see combating...

The deepening and widening of European integration has led to an increase in transborder crime. Concurrent prosecution and sanctioning by several Member States is not only a problem in inter-state relations and an obstacle in the European integration process, but also a violation of the ne bis...

The ‘business and human rights’ (BHR) field emerged amidst concerns during the last thirty years over the adequacy of national legal systems and institutions in addressing transnational human rights impacts of global market integration. BHR relies on transnational governance networks and...

Foreword / Bishop Jo Seoka - 1. Introduction / Britta Becker, Maren Grimm and Jakob Krameritsch - 2. The convergence of corporate and government interests: the unfinished business of the Marikana massacre / Jakob Krameritsch and Maren Grimm - 3. 'Only the stupidest countries stick to the...

This paper aims to analyze the context of corporate social responsibility of transnational corporations under the ambit of international law. In a globalized world, global corporate citizenship gained importance as corporations expanded their businesses from local to global level. The shift from...

This study investigates the antecedents of human rights infringements (HRIs) by emerging market firms (EFs). We used fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) to examine HRIs in 245 firms based in eight emerging markets, between 2003 and 2012. Our findings disclose three equifinal...

The adoption of the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights in 2011 marked a watershed moment, establishing the first global standards for preventing human rights abuses by business. In light of this paradigm shift, The Business and Human Rights Landscape offers the most...

Emerging and developing states are home to powerful corporations capable of deploying economic activities on a global scale through the rapid pace of technological change and globalisation. But such corporations have to date been largely overlooked in the field of business and human rights....

This research is a critical assessment of the United Nations’ Guidelines on Corporate Human Rights Due Diligence with respect to prior attempts to damage corporations using Corporate Social Responsibility. As the history of human rights violations shows, the impact of the United Nations was...