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4 - Governance of Firms, Poverty and Shared Responsibilities for Human Rights in UNGPs: Smart-Mix Regulation and CSR within Coalitions of the (Un)Willing

from Part I - Regulation Concepts, Paradigms and Approaches for Corporate Social Responsibility

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 June 2023

Onyeka K. Osuji ,
Franklin N. Ngwu  and
Gary Lynch-Wood
By
Onyeka K. Osuji
Onyeka K. Osuji
Affiliation:
University of Essex
Franklin N. Ngwu
Affiliation:
Pan-Atlantic University Lagos Business School, Nigeria
Gary Lynch-Wood
Affiliation:
University of Manchester School of Law
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Summary

The chapter uses global poverty as a case study subset of human rights to expand the smart-mix regulation discourse to the field of human rights where there is little legal affirmation of the methods for tackling challenges. It shows how the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) exemplify governance reluctance and uncertainties in international human rights law. It argues that, if properly designed, corporate social responsibility (CSR) can potentially address governance gaps for human rights beyond the scope of the UNGPs. The chapter further shows that CSR can be utilised by willing actors for safeguarding rights and combating the unwillingness of powerful political and economic entities to accept the legalisation of business responsibility for human rights.

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business and human rightscoalitions of the willingcorporate social responsibilityglobalisationgovernancehuman rightsmultinational enterprisespovertysmart-mix regulation
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Corporate Social Responsibility Across the Globe
Innovative Resolution of Regulatory and Governance Challenges
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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