Multinational corporations and global justice : human rights obligations of a quasi-governmental institution / Florian Wettstein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wettstein, Florian.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International business enterprises--Moral and ethical aspects.

International business enterprises.

Social responsibility of business.

Human rights.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (425 p.)

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford Business Books, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Multinational Corporations and Global Justice presents an innovative theory of multinational corporations' human rights obligations, which reaches far beyond conventional approaches of Corporate Social Responsibility and outlines what it means to look at corporations as agents of justice in a globalized world.

Contents:

Contents; Preface; 1 Introduction: A Plea for Global Justice; Modernity, Inequality, and the Neoliberal Project of the Global Market; The Inadequacy of the Utilitarian Worldview and Rawls's Failed Attempt to Correct It; It Is Time to Act- But for Whom?; The Ethical Perspective on Business; Outlook and Further Arguments; PART I: Toward Rights-Based Cosmopolitan Justice: Principles, Obligations, and Agents; 2 Principles of Global Justice; 3 Obligations of Global Justice; 4 Agents of Global Justice

PART II: Theory of the Quasi-Governmental Institution: Power and Authority in the Global Political Economy5 Multinational Corporations Between Depoliticization of the Economy and Economization of Politics: Unfolding the Neoliberal Paradox; 6 Political Power and Authority of Multinational Corporations; 7 When Multinational Corporations Act like Governments; PART III: Multinational Corporations as Primary Agents of Justice: The Duty to Respect, Protect, and Proactively Realize Human Rights

8 Challenging Common Perceptions: Some Preliminary Conceptual Reflections on Multinational Corporations' Obligations of Justice9 Making Sense of Multinational Corporations' Obligations of Justice; 10 A Look into the Future: Restoring Democracy in the Global Age; Notes; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 15. Sep 2020)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780804772600

0804772606

OCLC:

589158720