A Research Agenda for Business and Human Rights (Elgar Research Agendas) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1802208968 ISBN 13: 9781802208962

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2025

Synopsis

Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary.

Business and human rights (BHR) research is at a critical juncture, and this prescient Research Agenda illustrates the many nuances of historical, current, and future BHR scholarship. This volume includes chapters about relevant, pressing BHR issues; voices from practitioners; and pithy contributions from leading scholars and policymakers in the field about the future of BHR advocacy, practice, and scholarship. Utilising diverse interdisciplinary lenses, scholars and practitioners assess the many shifts and challenges BHR obligations present to traditional business operations and strategies.

The editors and contributors masterfully engage with the following questions: what is BHR scholarship? How have debates about BHR evolved? What are the cutting-edge areas of research and practice that will inform the next decade and beyond of BHR research? Chapters examine these questions while investigating a wide variety of important, international case studies, from the Rana Plaza collapse to businesses weathering patterns of conflict and peace in Colombia. Ultimately, this timely Research Agenda provides a significant illustration of both the theoretical and empirical dimensions of BHR.

Students and researchers of such disciplines as business ethics, diversity management, business law and human rights will find this book to be incredibly beneficial in understanding where BHR came from and where it might go to accomplish the goal of ending human rights abuses with a nexus to business. It is additionally useful for practitioners seeking to understand pressing BHR issues.

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About the Author

Edited by Tricia D. Olsen, Professor and Harold E. Stassen World Peace Chair, Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs and Department of Political Science, University of Minnesota, USA, Judith Schrempf-Stirling, Associate Professor of Responsible Management, Institute of Management, Geneva School of Economics and Management, University of Geneva, Switzerland and Harry Van Buren III, Professor & Z. Lupton Patten Endowed Chair of Business Ethics, The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, USA

Edition details

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1802208968
• ISBN 13: 9781802208962
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 254
• Editor: Olsen Tricia D., Schrempf-Stirling Judith, Van Buren III Harry