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Kigyo No Shakai-Teki Sekinin: Challenges For Corporate Social Responsibility In Japan, Janis P. Sarra, Masafumi Nakahigashi
Kigyo No Shakai-Teki Sekinin: Challenges For Corporate Social Responsibility In Japan, Janis P. Sarra, Masafumi Nakahigashi
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Globally, there is increasing discussion about corporate social responsibility (CSR). Many large multinational enterprises, particularly in mining and other resource sectors, have voluntarily adopted CSR programs, having concluded that social, economic, and environmental sustainability measures are good for the "bottom line" and fro the communities in which they operate. Companies in Japan have yet to move in that direction, although there are a few notable exceptions. In part, this lack of adaptation to the growing interest in CSR internationally is due to cultural and social norms in Japan that suggest that many aspects of CSR properly belong to the domain …
Prospects For Scalability: Relationships And Uncertainty In Responsive Regulation, Cristie Ford
Prospects For Scalability: Relationships And Uncertainty In Responsive Regulation, Cristie Ford
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Ian Ayres’s and John Braithwaite’s book Responsive Regulation: Transcending the Regulatory Debate (1992) gave us many significant insights. The book has transcended its own time. At the same time, on the 20th anniversary of its publication, two things about Responsive Regulation are striking. The first is the direct, personal relationship on which the regulatory interaction is premised. The second is the boundedness and manageability of the regulatory project. At least in prudential regulation of global financial institutions in the wake of the recent financial crisis (though surely elsewhere too), neither of these features can be taken for granted. This brief …
The Case For Leverage-Based Corporate Human Rights Responsibility, Stepan Wood
The Case For Leverage-Based Corporate Human Rights Responsibility, Stepan Wood
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Should companies’ human rights responsibilities arise, in part, from their “leverage” – their ability to influence others’ actions through their relationships? Special Representative John Ruggie rejected this proposition in the United Nations Framework for business and human rights. I argue that leverage is a source of responsibility where there is a morally significant connection between the company and a rights-holder or rights-violator, the company is able to make a contribution to ameliorating the situation, it can do so at modest cost, and the threat to human rights is substantial. In such circumstances companies have a responsibility to exercise leverage even …