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Florian Wettstein
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Prof. Dr.
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Wettstein
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Florian
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florian.wettstein@unisg.ch
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+41 71 224 3145
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PublicationHuman Rights: A Promising Perspective for Business & Society(Sage Periodicals Press, )
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PublicationType: journal articleJournal: Business Ethics Quarterly
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PublicationBusiness and Human Rights(Oxford University Press, 2020-02-26)
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PublicationBusiness and Human Rights Scholarship: Past Trends and Future Directions(Cambridge University Press, 2019-07)
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PublicationInternational business and human rights: A research agenda(Journal of World Business, 2019)
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PublicationHuman Rights and International Business Research: A Call for Studying Emerging Market MultinationalsElisa Giuliani, Grazia D. Santangelo, and Florian Wettstein invite internationalbusiness scholars to study emerging market multinationals from the perspective oftheir human rights impact. Human rights is a new challenging issue in corporatesocial responsibility research, yet so far international business scholars have largelyoverlooked their role in the quality of work, access to water, and education inmarkets they operate. The perspective continues the leadership by Professor AnneTsui, the founder ofManagement and Organization Review, in calling for a study ofmultinationals as part of global governance affecting people’s lives.Type: journal articleJournal: Management and Organization ReviewVolume: 12Issue: 3
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PublicationHuman RightsBusiness and human rights have not traditionally been addressed or theorized in close connection to each other. Rather, human rights have been seen as the exclusive domain of the state, that is, as a legal or political concept with little relevance or implication for companies. This has changed dramatically in recent years. There is now a broad interdisciplinary and dynamic discussion on the potential human rights responsibilities of business. While a systematic debate on the issue can be traced back at least to the mid-1990s, contributions to this debate have increased substantially in the wake of Prof. John Ruggie's appointment as the UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG) on business and human rights in 2005. This bibliography attempts to structure this evolving debate and guide readers to the most relevant sources in the field. The debate has attracted contributions from a wide variety of disciplines and perspectives. This bibliography has been limited to contributions published in the management and business ethics literature; with a few exceptions, the legal literature has not been considered. Furthermore, and again with just a few exceptions, only contributions that explicitly refer to human rights in the context of business have been included. Articles that relate to or inform the debate on business and human rights-such as, for example, the discussion on corporate social responsibility or that on human rights in general-but lack the specific connection of both fields were not included. The authors gratefully acknowledge the research assistance of Rutgers University PhD student Akiko Shigemoto and a research grant from the Rutgers Business School Research Resources Committee.Type: journal articleJournal: Oxford BibliographiesVolume: 2014Issue: Online
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PublicationCorporate Responsibility in the Collective Age: Toward a Conception of Collaborative ResponsibilityIn this article, I will argue that it is time to rethink and reconfigure some of the established assumptions underlying our conception of moral responsibility. Specifically, there is a mismatch between the individualism of our common sense morality and the imperative for collaborative responses to global problems in what I will call the "collective age." This must have an impact also on the way we think about the responsibility of corporations. I will argue that most plausibly we ought to reframe corporate responsibility as a conception of collaborative responsibility. Such a conception of collaborative responsibility is characterized by five key elements: first, it is based on the moral imperative for collaboration. Second, it shifts emphasis from commission to omission. Third, it is not only negative but also, and perhaps essentially, positive responsibility. Fourth, it is political responsibility. And finally, it is, most basically, human rights responsibility.Type: journal articleJournal: Business and Society ReviewVolume: 117Issue: 2
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PublicationSilence as Complicity : Elements of a Corporate Duty to Speak Out against the Violation of Human RightsIncreasingly, global businesses are confronted with the question of complicity in human rights violations committed by abusive host governments. This contribution specifically looks at silent complicity and the way it challenges conventional interpretations of corporate responsibility. Silent complicity implies that corporations have moral obligations that reach beyond the negative realm of doing no harm. Essentially, it implies that corporations have a moral responsibility to help protect human rights by putting pressure on perpetrating host governments involved in human rights abuses. This is a controversial claim, which this contribution proposes to analyze with a view to understanding and determining the underlying conditions that need to be met in order for moral agents to be said to have such responsibilities in the category of the duty to protect human rights.Type: journal articleJournal: Business Ethics QuarterlyVolume: 22Issue: 1DOI: 10.5840/beq20122214
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PublicationFor Better or for Worse: Corporate Responsibility Beyond "Do No Harm"Do corporations have a duty to promote just institutions? Agreeing with Hsieh's recent contribution, this article argues that they do. However, contrary to Hsieh, it holds that such a claim cannot be advanced convincingly only by reference to the negative duty to do no harm. Instead, such a duly necessarily must be grounded in positive obligation. In the search of a foundation for a positive duty for corporations to further just institutions, Stephen Kobrin's notion of "private political authority" offers a promising connecting point. Political authority implies political responsibility; Political obligation, however, includes more than merely not doing any harm it is essentially positive obligation. The implications of the new political responsibilities of multinational corporations may even go far beyond the particular duty to promote just institutions; they may be symptomatic for a much more profound shift from an individual to a collective age.Type: journal articleJournal: Business Ethics QuarterlyVolume: 20Issue: 2