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A Research Agenda for Business and Human Rights
Business and human rights (BHR) research is at a critical juncture, and this prescient Research Agenda illustrates the many nuances of historical, current, and future BHR scholarship. This volume includes chapters about relevant, pressing BHR issues; voices from practitioners; and pithy contributions from leading scholars and policymakers in the field about the future of BHR advocacy, practice, and scholarship. Utilising diverse interdisciplinary lenses, scholars and practitioners assess the many shifts and challenges BHR obligations present to traditional business operations and strategies.
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Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary.
Business and human rights (BHR) research is at a critical juncture, and this prescient Research Agenda illustrates the many nuances of historical, current, and future BHR scholarship. This volume includes chapters about relevant, pressing BHR issues; voices from practitioners; and pithy contributions from leading scholars and policymakers in the field about the future of BHR advocacy, practice, and scholarship. Utilising diverse interdisciplinary lenses, scholars and practitioners assess the many shifts and challenges BHR obligations present to traditional business operations and strategies.
The editors and contributors masterfully engage with the following questions: what is BHR scholarship? How have debates about BHR evolved? What are the cutting-edge areas of research and practice that will inform the next decade and beyond of BHR research? Chapters examine these questions while investigating a wide variety of important, international case studies, from the Rana Plaza collapse to businesses weathering patterns of conflict and peace in Colombia. Ultimately, this timely Research Agenda provides a significant illustration of both the theoretical and empirical dimensions of BHR.
Students and researchers of such disciplines as business ethics, diversity management, business law and human rights will find this book to be incredibly beneficial in understanding where BHR came from and where it might go to accomplish the goal of ending human rights abuses with a nexus to business. It is additionally useful for practitioners seeking to understand pressing BHR issues.
Business and human rights (BHR) research is at a critical juncture, and this prescient Research Agenda illustrates the many nuances of historical, current, and future BHR scholarship. This volume includes chapters about relevant, pressing BHR issues; voices from practitioners; and pithy contributions from leading scholars and policymakers in the field about the future of BHR advocacy, practice, and scholarship. Utilising diverse interdisciplinary lenses, scholars and practitioners assess the many shifts and challenges BHR obligations present to traditional business operations and strategies.
The editors and contributors masterfully engage with the following questions: what is BHR scholarship? How have debates about BHR evolved? What are the cutting-edge areas of research and practice that will inform the next decade and beyond of BHR research? Chapters examine these questions while investigating a wide variety of important, international case studies, from the Rana Plaza collapse to businesses weathering patterns of conflict and peace in Colombia. Ultimately, this timely Research Agenda provides a significant illustration of both the theoretical and empirical dimensions of BHR.
Students and researchers of such disciplines as business ethics, diversity management, business law and human rights will find this book to be incredibly beneficial in understanding where BHR came from and where it might go to accomplish the goal of ending human rights abuses with a nexus to business. It is additionally useful for practitioners seeking to understand pressing BHR issues.
Critical Acclaim
‘This book offers a comprehensive exploration of the rapidly evolving field of business and human rights. The editors have curated an exceptional array of contributions from leading scholars and practitioners, providing guidance and critical insights into numerous pressing issues that warrant further investigation. This interdisciplinary collection will help shape the business and human rights research agenda for the years ahead.’
– David Hess, University of Michigan, USA
‘This book is an invaluable resource for researchers of business and human rights. Edited by a team of leading researchers in the field, it features contributions from an impressive, interdisciplinary cast of scholars who bring a range of provocative and informative perspectives to this increasingly important issue.’
– Andrew Crane, University of Bath, UK
– David Hess, University of Michigan, USA
‘This book is an invaluable resource for researchers of business and human rights. Edited by a team of leading researchers in the field, it features contributions from an impressive, interdisciplinary cast of scholars who bring a range of provocative and informative perspectives to this increasingly important issue.’
– Andrew Crane, University of Bath, UK
Contents
Contents
1 Classifying business and human rights thought in
management scholarship 1
Tricia D. Olsen, Judith Schrempf-Stirling and Harry J. Van Buren III
PART I Business, human rights, and the historically marginalized
2 Silencing women: an empirical exploration of denial,
intimidation, gaslighting, performativity, and corporate
human rights abuses 21
Kathleen Rehbein, Annie Snelson-Powell and Michelle
Westermann-Behaylo
3 Worker voice initiatives in the post Rana Plaza Bangladesh
garments industry: collective and individual approaches 37
Jette Steen Knudsen, Jeremy Moon and Sharmin Shabnam Rahman
4 Development response to forced migration: a framework
for business shared responsibilities 57
Samentha Goethals
PART II New frontiers: conflict zones, financial sector, and activism
5 Business and local communities amidst the transition from
conflict to peace in Colombia 77
Angelika Rettberg
6 Beyond the ‘Do No Harm’ paradigm: peacebuilding through
projects for taxes in Colombia 91
Laura Bernal-Bermúdez and Natalia Correa Sánchez
7 Banks and human rights: what do we know? 107
Elisa Giuliani, Chiara Macchi, Federica Nieri and Verdiana Morreale
8 Sport, child rights, and UNICEF UK 121
Zara Grant and Liz Twyford
9 Investing in human rights: the role of investors engaging
business for the well-being of people and planet 127
David M. Schilling
PART III Implementing business and human rights
10 Corporate code-shifting in business and human rights 137
Samantha Hopkins, Ciarán O’Kelly and Ciara Hackett
11 The interpretation, communication, and reporting of human
rights 153
Louise J. Obara
12 Ten years of accounting for human rights: a critical review
of how practice has evolved and what might come next 169
Ken McPhail and John Ferguson
13 Embedding and integrating human rights: a practitioner’s
perspective 187
Richard Karmel
PART IV The future of business and human rights
14 Back to the future: from ‘business and human rights’ to a
rightsholder-centered economy 205
Florian Wettstein
15 Future of business and human rights: an emerging economy
agenda 211
Vasanthi Srinivasan
16 Reimagining the business and human rights architecture 217
Surya Deva
17 Conclusion: a research agenda for business and human
rights 223
Harry J. Van Buren III, Tricia D. Olsen and Judith Schrempf-Stirling
Index 231
1 Classifying business and human rights thought in
management scholarship 1
Tricia D. Olsen, Judith Schrempf-Stirling and Harry J. Van Buren III
PART I Business, human rights, and the historically marginalized
2 Silencing women: an empirical exploration of denial,
intimidation, gaslighting, performativity, and corporate
human rights abuses 21
Kathleen Rehbein, Annie Snelson-Powell and Michelle
Westermann-Behaylo
3 Worker voice initiatives in the post Rana Plaza Bangladesh
garments industry: collective and individual approaches 37
Jette Steen Knudsen, Jeremy Moon and Sharmin Shabnam Rahman
4 Development response to forced migration: a framework
for business shared responsibilities 57
Samentha Goethals
PART II New frontiers: conflict zones, financial sector, and activism
5 Business and local communities amidst the transition from
conflict to peace in Colombia 77
Angelika Rettberg
6 Beyond the ‘Do No Harm’ paradigm: peacebuilding through
projects for taxes in Colombia 91
Laura Bernal-Bermúdez and Natalia Correa Sánchez
7 Banks and human rights: what do we know? 107
Elisa Giuliani, Chiara Macchi, Federica Nieri and Verdiana Morreale
8 Sport, child rights, and UNICEF UK 121
Zara Grant and Liz Twyford
9 Investing in human rights: the role of investors engaging
business for the well-being of people and planet 127
David M. Schilling
PART III Implementing business and human rights
10 Corporate code-shifting in business and human rights 137
Samantha Hopkins, Ciarán O’Kelly and Ciara Hackett
11 The interpretation, communication, and reporting of human
rights 153
Louise J. Obara
12 Ten years of accounting for human rights: a critical review
of how practice has evolved and what might come next 169
Ken McPhail and John Ferguson
13 Embedding and integrating human rights: a practitioner’s
perspective 187
Richard Karmel
PART IV The future of business and human rights
14 Back to the future: from ‘business and human rights’ to a
rightsholder-centered economy 205
Florian Wettstein
15 Future of business and human rights: an emerging economy
agenda 211
Vasanthi Srinivasan
16 Reimagining the business and human rights architecture 217
Surya Deva
17 Conclusion: a research agenda for business and human
rights 223
Harry J. Van Buren III, Tricia D. Olsen and Judith Schrempf-Stirling
Index 231
