Sökning: "business and human rights"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 27 avhandlingar innehållade orden business and human rights.
1. Corporate Human Rights Responsibility : A Continuous Quest for an Effective Regulatory Framework
Sammanfattning : This study is build by a premise that there is a need to include regulatory approach in the discourse of business and human rights particularly of economic, social, and cultural rights which often neglected. The study is not expecting to produce exhausted set of rules which can directly or effectively applicable to all global corporation nor a set of global treaty which can cover the whole aspects of corporation and human rights. LÄS MER
2. Amnesty in Translation : Ideas, Interests and Organizational Change
Sammanfattning : Swedish Amnesty was founded in 1964 for the purpose of working for the release of prisoners of conscience. Forty years later the organization has expanded its realm of activity to include ideas such as women’s rights, homosexuals’ rights and corporate responsibility for human rights. LÄS MER
3. Creation of Social Exlcusion in Policy and Practice
Sammanfattning : Social exclusion of vulnerable children and families is a serious concern for policy-makers and practitioners alike. This doctoral thesis explores the social construction of exclusion in the UK. The thesis explores both historical and current processes of interactions between the socially excluded populations and policy agents. LÄS MER
4. Explaining Early Adoption : National Action Plans on Business and Human Rights
Sammanfattning : Diffusion of innovations theory concerns the process by which innovations are communicated through the members of a social system. Previous research has shed significant light on how public policies diffuse across governments over time, but there is little understanding of why they diffuse. The answer may lie in the motivations of early adopters. LÄS MER
5. Making Corporate Social Responsibility an International Concern : Norm Construction in a Globalizing World
Sammanfattning : Since the mid-1990s the issue of corporate social responsibility has become an interest of various actors in the international system and an important item on the international agenda. In spite of the absence of a common definition, the concept generally involves claims on transnational corporations to take responsibility for the promotion and protection of human and labour rights in countries where they operate or otherwise conduct business. LÄS MER
