...Karin Buhmann; Jonas Jonsson; Mette Fisker Purpose This paper aims to explain how companies can benefit from their human rights due diligence process to identify opportunities for sustainable development goals (SDGs) activities in an operationalisation of political corporate social responsibility...

...‐situation for all stakeholders and for a sustainable combination of interests in profits, human rights, especially the “right to health”, and human welfare. Design/methodology/approach This is a conceptual paper on the basis of step‐by‐step analytical and interdiscinplinary approach...

...Gilbert Lenssen; Daniel Arenas; Peter Lacy; Simon Pickard; Kevin Jackson Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present a theoretical model for systematizing human rights norms to facilitate their integration into global business decision making. Design/methodology/approach...

...S. Prakash Sethi; Terry Collingsworth Purpose This paper aims to examine the impact of a US law, called Alien Tort Statute (ATS), on the overseas operations of multinational corporations with regard to human rights abuses. The law has the potential of creating substantial financial liabilities...

... and human rights) and environmental dimensions. Findings It is argued that CSR functions as informal law, and that important principles of law function as part of a general set of values that guide much action on CSR. Furthermore, it is argued that aspects of law in the abstract as well...

...Bert van de Ven This article discusses the appeal of human rights as a normative basis for stakeholder claims in the context of international business. This appeal to human rights has proven to be an effective way to legitimize (in the sociological sense) the claims of stakeholders due...