While an emerging literature considers Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) as obligatory, voluntarism has dominated the scholarship and policymaking related to CSR. Almost parallel to this literature, the field of law has conceived and advanced the concept of Business and Human Rights (BHR)...

This article critically discusses corporate claims to human rights. A scheme of universal human rights founded on respect for inherent human dignity and reciprocity of empathy is firstly outlined. As a prelude to an examination of corporate claims to human rights, it is explained why animals and...

This paper critiques the failure of contemporary human rights to alleviate global poverty in the face of economic globalisation and how such failure necessitates a discussion on identifying and investigating alternative strategies for addressing the human rights deficit in addressing global...

This paper is primarily focussed on examining the role (and effectiveness) of soft law in regulating businesses with respect to human rights. Section I grapples with developing a general definition of soft law, and in doing so, examines both the advantages and limitations of soft law regulation....

Management research on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) focuses almost exclusively on the impact of CSR on profitability or corporate value. A largely neglected question is whether CSR impacts positively on society. We address this gap in the literature by exploring the relationship between...

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has become a fixture on the agendas of corporate boards in much the same way as environmental issues did a decade or so ago. To what extent social responsibilities should be made legally enforceable remains a matter of some fierce debate. There are already...

Whereas businesses tend to view all things in terms of risk and return, some elements of human rights that are integral to human dignity do not lend themselves to this characterization. In the story of the progressive detachment of the economic sphere from society drawn by Polanyi (1944), human...