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Multinational corporations' economic and human rights impacts on developing countries: A review and research agenda
No full textDeveloping countries are attracting a significant portion of global foreign direct investments. Governments of such countries often compete fiercely for attracting multinational corporations (MNCs) in the expectation of the advantages they will bring to their economies, often prioritising economic goals over fundamental human rights. For a long time, economists have analysed the economic impacts of MNCs, while a parallel strand of work in political science, business ethics and international law investigates the repercussions of MNC operations on human rights. Despite the significant relatedness and complementarities, these two bodies of literature have so far poorly interacted. This paper addresses this limitation and systematically analyses and integrates existing micro-level empirical evidence on the economic and human rights impacts of MNCs on developing countries. It provides a critical analysis of what is known and highlights what we do not know about the factors that mediate the positive and/or negative impacts of MNC operations on host developing countries. Based on a critical analysis of the literature, it discusses avenues for future research in this field and sets the grounds for a new interdisciplinary research agenda on this subject. © The Author 2013. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Cambridge Political Economy Society. All rights reserved
MEASURING CORPORATE SOCIAL IRRESPONSIBILITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS’ ABUSES
No full textThis presentation discusses issues about the data and measures of business and human rights
Distretti industriali, reti e comunità di knowledge worker: un’analisi empirica nel settore vitivinicolo cileno
No full textIndustrial districts are
changing: their firms struggle
to compete in the global
market, while their traditional
local communities are displaced
by younger generations of
workers.
This paper explores the
characteristics of the
community of knowledge
workers in a Chilean wine
cluster. It finds that the flow
of knowledge in the district is
driven by the reputation of
knowledge workers and by
their friendship.
Implications for theory and
practice are discussed
Human Rights and Corporate Social Responsibility in Developing Countries’ Industrial Clusters
No full textA recent preoccupation in scholarly research is the capacity of firms in developing country industrial clusters to comply with international corporate social responsibility (CSR) policies and codes of conducts. This research is at an early stage and draws on several—often quite distinct—scholarly traditions. In this paper, we argue that future work in this area would benefit from a more explicit examination of the connection between cluster firms and human rights defined according to the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights and subsequent covenants and treaties. We argue that cluster firms’ adoption of CSR policies, often indiscriminately imposed by global buyers, should be differentiated from firms’ actual human rights practices. Based on this distinction, we elaborate a typology of industrial clusters (low-road, window-dressing, rights-oriented) and identify a set of factors likely to influence their practice. Against this background, we discuss an agenda for future research and elaborate on the potential methodological intricacies related to research on the interface between industrial clusters and human rights
Human rights and international business research: A call for studying emerging market multinationals
No full textElisa Giuliani, Grazia D. Santangelo, and Florian Wettstein invite international
business scholars to study emerging market multinationals from the perspective of
their human rights impact. Human rights is a new challenging issue in corporate
social responsibility research, yet so far international business scholars have largely
overlooked their role in the quality of work, access to water, and education in
markets they operate. The perspective continues the leadership by Professor Anne
Tsui, the founder of Management and Organization Review, in calling for a study of
multinationals as part of global governance affecting people’s lives
Toward an understanding of knowledge spillovers in industrial clusters
No full textSince Marshall’s contribution on the localization of economic activities,
increased consideration has been given to geography in economics.
This study focuses on the relationships between industrial clustering and
knowledge spillovers. It illustrates empirically that, even in the condition of
serendipitous business interactions among nearby firms, knowledge
spillovers are diffused unevenly and within restricted subgroups of firms
Innovation Networks and Knowledge Clusters. Findings and insights from the US, EU and Japan, Carayannis E. , Assimakopoulos D., Kondo M., Palgrave MacMillan Publishers, New York, NY (USA) (2008); 224 pp Hardback ISBN: 1-4039-4245-5
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Inside Networks: A Process View on Multi-organisational Partnerships, Alliances and Networks, Gossling T.,Oerlemans L., Jansen R.(Eds.).Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK. Northampton, MA, USA. (2007);320 pp Hardback ISBN:978 1
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