Open AccessHuman Rights: A Promising Perspective for Business & Society
Author(s) -
Judith SchrempfStirling,
Harry J. Van Buren,
Florian Wettstein
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
business and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.983
H-Index - 75
eISSN - 1552-4205
pISSN - 0007-6503
DOI - 10.1177/00076503211068425
Subject(s) - corporate social responsibility , scholarship , thriving , human rights , perspective (graphical) , social responsibility , sociology , political science , public relations , law and economics , environmental ethics , law , social science , philosophy , artificial intelligence , computer science
In his invited essay for Business & Society’s 60th anniversary, Archie B. Carroll (2021, p. 16) refers to human rights as “a topic that holds considerable promise for CSR [corporate social responsibility] researchers in the future.” The objective of this article is to unpack this promise. We (a) discuss the momentum of business and human rights (BHR) in international policy, national regulation, and corporate practice, (b) review how and why BHR scholarship has been thriving, (c) provide a conceptual framework to analyze how BHR and corporate social responsibility (CSR) relate to each other, and (d) provide a research agenda outlining how BHR can expand business and society scholarship in general and one of its foundational constructs, CSR, in particular, beyond the current confines of the business and society field.