Transnational corporations and the duty to respect basic human rights

Business Ethics Quarterly

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 371-399

  Arnold, Denis G ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955667456     PISSN: 1052150X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5840/beq201020327     Document Type: Article

References (61)

1. Arnold, Denis G. 2003. "Libertarian Theories of the Corporation and Global Capitalism." Journal of Business Ethics 48: 155-73.
2. -2006. "Corporate Moral Agency." Midwest Studies in Philosophy 30, "Shared Intentions and Collective Responsibility": 279-91.
3. -2009. "Working Conditions: Safety and Sweatshops," in The Oxford Handbook of Business Ethics, ed. George Brenkert and Tom Beauchamp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 628-54.
4. Arnold, Denis G., and Norman E. Bowie. 2003. "Sweatshops and Respect for Persons." Business Ethics Quarterly 13(2) (April): 221-412.
5. -2007. "Respect for Workers in Global Supply Chains: Advancing the Debate Over Sweatshops." Business Ethics Quarterly 17(1) (January): 135-45.
6. Arnold, Denis G., and Laura Hartman. 2006. "Worker Rights and Low Wage Industrialization: How to Avoid Sweatshops." Human Rights Quarterly 28(3) (August): 676-700.
7. Banerjee, Subhabrata Bobby. 2010. "Governing the Global Corporation: A Critical Perspective." Business Ethics Quarterly 20(2): 265-74.
8. Business Leaders Initiative on Human Rights. 2009. Policy Report 4.
9. Caney, Simon. 2009. "Climate Change, Human Rights and Moral Thresholds," in Human Rights and Climate Change, ed. Stephen Humphreys. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 69-90.
10. Ci, Jiwei. 2005. "Taking the Reasons for Human Rights Seriously." Political Theory 33(2) (April): 243-65, 251.
11. Cragg, Wesley. 2002. "Human Rights and Business Ethics: Fashioning a New Social Contract." The Journal of Business Ethics 27: 205-14.
12. -2004. "Human Rights, Globalisation and the Modern Shareholder Owned Corporation," in Human Rights and the Moral Responsibilities of Corporate and Public Sector Organisations, ed. Tom Campbell and Seamus Miller. Dordrect: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
13. Deva, Sura. 2008. "Global Compact: A Critique of the U.N.'s 'Public-Private' Partnership for Promoting Corporate Citizenship." Syracuse Journal of International Law and Commerce 34: 107-51.
14. Dworkin, Gerald. 1988. The Theory and Practice of Autonomy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
15. Feinberg, Joel. 1973. Social Philosophy. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall.
16. Frankfurt, Harry G. 1988. The Importance of What We Care About. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
17. French, Peter. 1996. "Integrity, Intentions, and Corporations." American Business Law Journal 34: 141-55. .
18. Griffin, James. 2008. On Human Rights. New York: Oxford University Press.
19. Hart, H. L. A. 1955. "Are There Any Natural Rights?" The Philosophical Review 64(2): 175-91.
20. Herman, Barbara. 1993. The Practice of Moral Judgment. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
21. Hohfeld, Wesley N. 1919. Fundamental Legal Conceptions, ed. Walter W Cook. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press.
22. Hsieh, Nien-hê. 2009. "Does Global Business Have a Responsibility to Promote Just Institutions?" Business Ethics Quarterly 19(2) (April): 251-73.
23. International Chamber of Commerce and the International Organisation of Employers. 2003. "Joint Views of ICC and the IOE on the Draft 'Norms on the Responsibilities of Transnational Corporations and Other Business Enterprises with Regard to Human Rights'" (24 November).
24. Kane, Robert. 1996. The Significance of Free Will. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
25. Kant, Immanuel. 1990. Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals, trans. Lewis White Beck. New York: Macmillan.
26. Kobrin, Stephen J. 2009. "Private Political Authority and Public Responsibility: Transnational Politics, Transnational Firms, and Human Rights." Business Ethics Quarterly 19(3) (July): 349-74.
27. Levis, Julien. 2006. "Adoption of Corporate Social Responsibility Codes by Multinational Companies." Journal of Asian Economics 17(1) (February): 50-55.
28. Lomasky, Loren E. 1987. Persons, Rights, and the Moral Community. New York: Oxford University Press.
29. Melden, A. I. 1977. Rights and Persons. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press.
30. Michaelson, Christopher. 2010. "Revisiting the Global Business Ethics Question." Business Ethics Quarterly 20(2): 237-51.
31. Muchlinski, Peter T. 2001. "Human Rights and Multinationals: Is There a Problem." International Affairs 77'(1): 31-47.
32. -2007. Multinational Enterprises and the Law. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
33. Nagel, Thomas. 1995. "Personal Rights and Public Space." Philosophy & Public Affairs 24(2): 83-107.
34. Nickel, James. 2009. "Human Rights." The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring), ed. Edward N. Zalta. http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/ spr2009/entries/rights-hu-man/
35. Nozick, Robert. 1974. Anarchy, State, and Utopia. New York: Basic Books.
36. O'Neill, Onora. 1996. Towards Justice and Virtue: A Constructive Account of Practical Reasoning. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
37. -2001. "Agents of Justice," in Global Justice, ed. Thomas Pogge. Maiden, Mass.: Blackwell
38. -2005. "The Dark Side of Human Rights." International Affairs 81(2): 42739.
39. Pogge, Thomas. 2002. "Human Rights and Human Responsibilities," in Global Justice and Transnational Politics, ed. Pablo De Greiff and Ciaran Cronin. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 151-95.
40. Santoro, Michael A. 2000. Profits and Principles: Global Capitalism and Human Rights in China. Ithaca, N. Y: Cornell University Press.
41. -2010. "Post-Westphalia and Its Discontents: Business, Globalization, and Human Rights in Political and Moral Perspective." Business Ethics Quarterly 20(2): 285-97.
42. Sen, Amartya. 2004. "Elements of a Theory of Human Rights." Philosophy and Public Affairs 32(4): 315-56.
43. Shue, Henry. 1988. "Mediating Duties." Ethics 98: 687-704.
44. -1996. Basic Rights: Subsistence, Affluence, and U.S. Foreign Policy. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.
45. Singer, Peter. 1972. "Famine, Affluence and Morality." Philosophy & Public Affairs 1(1) (Spring): 229-43.
46. Strudler, Alan. 2008. "Confucian Skepticism about Workplace Rights." Business Ethics Quarterly 18(1) (January): 67-83.
47. Sunstein, Cass R. "Beyond the Precautionary Principle." University of Pennsylvania Law Review 151(3) (January): 1003-58.
48. Snyder, Jeremy. 2010. "Exploitation and Sweatshop Labor: Perspectives and Issues." Business Ethics Quarterly 20(2): 187-213.
49. Thompson, Judith Jarvis. 1993. The Realm of Rights. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1993.
50. Turner, Derek, and Lauren Hartzeil. 2004. "The Lack of Clarity in the Precautionary Principle." Environmental Values 13(4) (November): 449-60.
51. United Nations. 1966. International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. A/RES/21/2200 (December 16).
52. United Nations Commission on Human Rights. 2005. Human Rights Resolution 2005/69: Human Rights and Transnational Corporations and Other Business Enterprises, E/ CN.4/RES/2005/69 (April 20).
53. United Nations Commission on Human Rights, Sub-Commission on Protection & Promotion of Human Rights, Working Group. 2003. Norms on the Responsibilities of Transnational Corporations and Other Business Enterprises with Regard to Human Rights. United Nations, Doc. E/CN.4/Sub,2/2003/12/Rev.2.
54. United Nations Global Compact Office. 2008. Corporate Citizenship in the World Economy: United Nations Global Compact. New York: United Nations.
55. United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary General on the Issue of Human Rights and Transnational Corporations and Other Business Enterprises. 2006. "Promotion and Protection of Human Rights." United Nations Doc. E/CN.4/2006/97 (February 22).
56. -2008. "Protect, Respect and Remedy: A Framework for Business and Human Rights." United Nations Doc. A/HRC/8/5 (April 7).
57. United States Council for International Business. N.D. "Submission to the High Commissioner for Human Rights for the Report on the "Responsibilities of Transnational Corporations and Related Business Enterprises with Regard to Human Rights."
58. Weissbrodt, David, and Muria Kruger. 2003. "Norms on the Responsibilities of Transnational Corporations and Other Business Enterprises with Regard to Human Rights." American Journal of International Law 97: 901-22.
59. Werner, Leif. 2005. "The Nature of Rights." Philosophy and Public Affairs 33(3): 223-53.
60. Wettstein, Florian. 2010. "For Better or For Worse: Corporate Responsibility Beyond 'Do No Harm.'" Business Ethics Quarterly 20(2): 275-83.
61. Zimmerman, Michael J. 1996. The Concept of Moral Obligation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.