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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “david jason karp”
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  • Responsibility for Human Rights

    Transnational Corporations in Imperfect States

    by David Jason Karp ...
    Series Book 130 - Cambridge Studies in International Relations
    Responsibility for Human Rights provides an original theoretical analysis of which global actors are responsible for human rights, and why. It does this through an evaluation of the different reasons according to which such responsibilities might be assigned: legalism, universalism, capacity and publicness. The book marshals various arguments that speak in favour of and against assigning ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

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  • Working for Good

    Making a Difference While Making a Living

    by Jeff Klein ...
    This practical guidebook for becoming a conscious entrepreneur is designed to inspire, inform, engage, activate, and assist readers in their pursuit of building and operating a conscious enterprise.Author Jeff Klein says, “My passion and calling over the past three decades has been to explore and discover ways to become ever more human and fully present in the context of my work, to realize my ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • The Rise of Global Corporate Social Responsibility

    Mining and the Spread of Global Norms

    by Hevina S. Dashwood ...
    Series series Business and Public Policy
    Combining insights from international relations theory with institutional approaches from organization theory and public policy, this book provides a complete explanation for the adoption of corporate social responsibility (CSR), showing how global norms influenced CSR adoption in the mining industry. Global normative developments have clearly had an important influence on major mining companies: ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • The Business of Human Rights

    An Evolving Agenda for Corporate Responsibility

    by Klaus Dieter Wolf, Doctor Fiona Harris, Doctor Keren Bright, Professor John Hatchard, Mark J. Smith, Doctor Piya Pangsapa, Olufemi Amao, Gary Slapper, Lois Muraguri ...
    In a time when multinational corporations have become truly globalised, demands for global standards on their behaviour are increasingly difficult to dismiss. Work conditions in sweatshops, widespread destruction of the environment, and pharmaceutical trials in third world countries are only the tip of the iceberg.This timely collection of essays addresses the interface between the calls for ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Good Company

    Business Success in the Worthiness Era

    by Laurie Bassi, Ed Frauenheim, Dan McMurrer, Larry Costello ...
    We're losing patience with bad companies. We're fed up with the greed of Goldman Sachs, sickened by BP's pollution, tired of tainted food, tightfisted employers, and phony "corporate social responsibility." And Laurie Bassi and her co-authors have news: the "bad boy" days are over. We're at the dawn of the Worthiness Era, when doing the right thing is no longer optional--it's the key to success. ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • China 2020

    How Western Business Can—and Should—Influence Social and Political Change in the Coming Decade

    by Michael A. Santoro ...
    Chinese society is plagued by many problems that have a direct impact on its current and future business and political environment-worker rights, product safety, Internet freedom, and the rule of law. Drawing on knowledge gained through personal interviews, documentary sources, and almost two decades of visits to China, Michael A. Santoro offers a clear-eyed view of the various internal forces ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • The Business and Human Rights Landscape

    Moving Forward, Looking Back

    Edited by Jena Martin, Karen E. Bravo ...
    The adoption of the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights in 2011 marked a watershed moment, establishing the first global standards for preventing human rights abuses by business. In light of this paradigm shift, The Business and Human Rights Landscape offers the most comprehensive analysis to date of the current legal framework. It includes in-depth explorations of the ... Read more

    $184.99 CAD

  • Business and Human Rights

    History, Law and Policy - Bridging the Accountability Gap

    by Nadia Bernaz ...
    Series series Human Rights and International Law
    Business corporations can and do violate human rights all over the world, and they are often not held to account. Emblematic cases and situations such as the state of the Niger Delta and the collapse of the Rana Plaza factory are examples of corporate human rights abuses which are not adequately prevented and remedied. Business and human rights as a field seeks to enhance the accountability of ... Read more

    $109.99 CAD

  • Tax Havens and International Human Rights

    by Paul Beckett ...
    Series series Human Rights and International Law
    This book sails in uncharted waters. It takes a human rights-based approach to tax havens, and is a detailed analysis of structures and the laws that generate and support these. It makes plain the unscrupulous or merely indifferent ways in which, using tax havens, businesses and individuals systematically undermine and for all practical purposes eliminate access to remedies under international ... Read more

    $93.99 CAD

  • New Perspectives on Human Security

    Edited by Malcolm McIntosh, Alan Hunter ...
    This book is testimony to the emergent nature of human security as an idea, as a useful construct and as an operational strategy. The aim is to showcase new directions that may enrich the human security agenda. Some human security discourse is still rooted in the traditional language of the aid-agency/UN development/economic growth models, often hostile to the corporate and business sector, and ... Read more

    $84.99 CAD

  • Human Rights, Corporate Complicity and Disinvestment

    Edited by Andreas Follesdal, Ola Mestad, Gro Nystuen ...
    How can businesses and their shareholders avoid moral and legal complicity in human rights violations? This central and contemporary issue in the field of ethics, politics and law is of concern to intergovernmental organizations such as the UN and to many NGOs, as well as investors and employees. In this volume legal scholars and political philosophers identify and address the intertwined issues ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Corporate Social Responsibility and Human Rights in Asia

    by Robert J. Hanlon ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Asia Series
    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 ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD