Corporate Social Responsibility and Human Rights in Asia - Robert J. Hanlon

Corporate Social Responsibility and Human Rights in Asia

Buch | Hardcover
212 Seiten
2014
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-70505-9 (ISBN)
179,95 inkl. MwSt
As globalization has brought about new concerns and responsibilities for business, particularly in the realm of human rights, many multinational corporations (MNC) operating in Asia have argued that such rights are the responsibility of government. However, as globalization continues to improve market access for MNCs, it increasingly exposes them to new forms of transnational social movements, and as a result the private sector has emerged as one of the central stakeholders in the region’s human rights dialogue.

Taking three of Asia’s fastest emerging economies – Cambodia, China and Thailand – as its starting point, Corporate Social Responsibility and Human Rights in Asia explores the business case for corporate social responsibility, human rights and anti-corruption in the region. In doing so, it examines how industry perceives human rights and corruption within the corporate social responsibility (CSR) paradigm, and builds on the argument that the CSR regime is a socially constructed concept. Drawing on interviews with key stakeholders including business leaders, nongovernmental organizations, international organizations and government officials, Robert Hanlon argues that industry perceives human rights as outside their sphere of influence; that divergent stakeholder interests are side-lining the human rights debate; and that human rights are increasingly ignored in the quest for profit-maximization. This leads to the conclusion that human rights and corruption will remain peripheral business issues until stakeholders find new ways of creating space for CSR engagement, and business actors will continue to marginalize the human rights issue so long as governments in the region let them.

This interdisciplinary book draws on political science, business and sociological perspectives and as such, will be of great interest to students and scholars working across the fields of Asian business, corporate social responsibility and business ethics, human rights and international political economy.

Robert J. Hanlon is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Politics, Thompson Rivers University, Canada and Associate Faculty, Human Security Program, Royal Roads University, Canada

1. The Politics of Corporate Social Responsibility 2. The State, CSR and Elite Stakeholders 3. Business Actors, the State and Human Rights in Asia 4. CSR, Development and Weak Stakeholder Consolidation in Cambodia 5. CSR and the Politics of Stakeholder Consolidation in China 6. CSR and One-Dimensional Stakeholder Consolidation in Thailand 7. CSR and Human Rights in Asia: Achieving Stakeholder Consolidation

Erscheint lt. Verlag 1.5.2014
Reihe/Serie Routledge Contemporary Asia Series
Zusatzinfo 2 Tables, black and white; 3 Line drawings, black and white; 3 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 550 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie
Naturwissenschaften Geowissenschaften Geografie / Kartografie
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Spezielle Soziologien
Wirtschaft Betriebswirtschaft / Management Marketing / Vertrieb
Wirtschaft Betriebswirtschaft / Management Planung / Organisation
Wirtschaft Betriebswirtschaft / Management Unternehmensführung / Management
ISBN-10 0-415-70505-3 / 0415705053
ISBN-13 978-0-415-70505-9 / 9780415705059
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