Human rights, transnational corporations and embedded liberalism: What chance consensus?

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 87, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2009, Pages 367-383

  Whelan, Glen ^a   Moon, Jeremy ^a   Orlitzky, Marc ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Corporate social responsibility; Embedded liberalism; Global governance; Human rights; International affairs; John Ruggie; Multinational corporations (MNCs); Regulation of markets; Social constructivism; Transnational corporations (TNCs)

Indexed keywords

EID: 74249096148     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-009-0298-3     Document Type: Article

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