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A Research Agenda for Business and Human Rights

Author: Tricia D. Olsen; Judith Schrempf-Stirling; Harry Van Buren III
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 9781802208962
Published In: January 2025
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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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.

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

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

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

Development response to forced migration: a framework for business shared responsibilities 57

Samentha Goethals

PART II New frontiers: conflict zones, financial sector, and activism

Business and local communities amidst the transition from conflict to peace in Colombia 77

Angelika Rettberg

Beyond the ‘Do No Harm’ paradigm: peacebuilding through projects for taxes in Colombia 91

Laura Bernal-Bermúdez and Natalia Correa Sánchez

Banks and human rights: what do we know? 107

Elisa Giuliani, Chiara Macchi, Federica Nieri and Verdiana Morreale

Sport, child rights, and UNICEF UK 121

Zara Grant and Liz Twyford

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

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Corporate code-shifting in business and human rights 137

Samantha Hopkins, Ciarán O’Kelly and Ciara Hackett

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The interpretation, communication, and reporting of human rights 153

Louise J. Obara

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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

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Embedding and integrating human rights: a practitioner’s perspective 187

Richard Karmel

PART IV The future of business and human rights

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Back to the future: from ‘business and human rights’ to a rightsholder-centered economy 205

Florian Wettstein

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Future of business and human rights: an emerging economy agenda 211

Vasanthi Srinivasan

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Reimagining the business and human rights architecture 217

Surya Deva

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Conclusion: a research agenda for business and human rights 223

Harry J. Van Buren III, Tricia D. Olsen and Judith Schrempf-Stirling

Index 231

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