Developing countries are attracting a significant portion of global foreign direct investments.
Governments of such countries often compete fiercely for attracting multinational …

During the last years, there has been an increasing discussion on the role of business in
human rights violations and an increase in human rights litigation against companies. The …

The threat to human rights posed by non-state actors is of increasing concern. The author
addresses the international obligations of belligerents, national liberation movements and …

Human rights have not played an overwhelmingly prominent role in CSR in the past.
Similarly, CSR has had relatively little influence on what is now called the “business and …

This study examines the alleged conflict of WTO law with international human rights law,
using a prominent example of such a conflict: that between international patent law, ie, the …

Despite the continuous addition of regulatory initiatives concerning corporate human rights
responsibilities, what we witness more often than not is a situation of corporate impunity for …

The recent proliferation of International Accountability Standards (IAS) has attracted
significant academic interest, but the extent of their adoption and integration by global firms …

Competition to attract foreign direct investment (FDI) creates opportunities for multinational
enterprises (MNEs) to diffuse corporate management practices from their countries-of-origin …

With the surge in economic growth in the global-north vis-a-vis social and economic
inequalities in the global-south (north-south dichotomy), there is an increasing requirement …

Systems for certifying sustainable resource use and decent labor conditions have become
prominent modes of private regulation at the transnational level. But serious questions …