Responsible Enterprise

Birgit Spiesshofer

doi:10.17104/9783406779312

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Spiesshofer

Responsible Enterprise This fundamental work analyses the great variety of normative processes encompassed by the term ‘Corporate Social Responsibility’ (CSR) and subjects them to a systematic and critical examination. Domestic and supranational legislation, international law and transnational private law instruments – supplemented and superseded by soft law and informal steering by private and public organisations – are the ‘smart mix’ from which a global order for enterprise responsibility is emerging. The author relates these processes to fundamental considerations on the conception of enterprise, the justification and scope of enterprise responsibility and publicprivate governance. She reveals that the informalization of norm-creation and its transfer to the executive and private actors raises fundamental questions of national sovereignty, democratic legitimation and rule of law. A new conception of ‘law’ is also required.

The book links theory and practice and focuses, inter alia, on the following issues:

Fundamentals of the CSR discussion
CSR conceptions of the United Nations, the OECD, ISO, the EU and their interplay with national legal structures
Sector-specific CSR-conceptions (mining, finance, textile, legal profession)
New conceptions of enterprise and group responsibility
Transnational public-private governance and innovative norm creation
The new CSR world order – a ‘legal internet’?

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2022
ISBN-Print: 978-3-406-71459-7
ISBN-Online: 978-3-406-77931-2
Publisher: C.H.BECK Recht - Wirtschaft - Steuern, München
Series: Beck International
Language: English
Pages: 592
Product type: Book Titles

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis No access Pages I - XVIII
1. 1. CSR-definition? No access
2. 2. CSR as key concept/term or leitmotif No access
3. 3. CSR as normative-cultural expectations for enterprises No access
4. 4. Working hypothesis: normative CSR is “law” No access
5. 5. Overview No access
1. 1. 1. 1. The honorable businessman No access
    2. 2. Lex mercatoria No access
    3. 3. Summary No access
  2. 1. 1. Carroll’s responsibility pyramid No access
    2. 2. The business of business is business (Milton Friedman) No access
    3. 3. Triple Bottom Line (“People, Planet, Profit”) No access
    4. 4. Summary No access
2. 1. 1. 1. Enterprise No access
    2. 2. Responsibility No access
    3. 3. Governance No access
    4. 4. Summary No access
  2. 1. 1. Enterprise No access
    2. 2. Responsibility No access
    3. 3. Governance No access
    4. 4. Summary No access
  3. 1. 1. General human rights doctrine No access
    2. 2. UN Norms on the Responsibilities of Transnational Corporations and Other Business Enterprises with regard to Human Rights (“Draft Norms”) No access
    3. 3. Report of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on the Responsibilities of Transnational Corporations and Related Business Enterprises with Regard to Human Rights No access
    4. 4. UN Special Representative on Business and Human Rights (John Ruggie) No access
    5. 5. UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights (UNWG) No access
    6. 6. Initiatives for an international treaty No access
  4. IV. The UN CSR system No access
  5. V. Summary No access
3. 1. 1. 1. Historical development No access
    2. 2. Enterprise No access
    3. 3. Responsibility No access
    4. 4. Governance No access
  2. II. The OECD CSR system No access
  3. III. Summary No access
4. 1. 1. 1. Historical development and process No access
    2. 2. Enterprise No access
    3. 3. Responsibility No access
    4. 4. Governance No access
  2. II. The ISO CSR system No access
  3. III. Summary No access
5. 1. I. CSR relevant European fundamental and human rights No access
  2. 1. 1. Voluntary conception No access
    2. 2. A renewed EU strategy (2011–2014) for Corporate Social Responsibility No access
    3. 3. A new CSR strategy in 2017? No access
    4. 4. Creeping expansion of competence through CSR No access
  3. III. Summary No access
6. 1. 1. 1. CSR as the “new lex mercatoria”? No access
    2. 2. “Human rights” as a-national global law? No access
    3. 3. CSR and “governance gaps” No access
    4. 4. National action plans for business and human rights No access
    5. 5. Transnational soft law with national hard sanctions No access
  2. II. National law and extraterritorial issues No access
  3. 1. 1. Universal jurisdiction No access
    2. 2. Applicable law No access
    3. 3. Improvement of access to remedies No access
  4. IV. Summary No access
7. 1. 1. 1. Industry-related initiatives No access
    2. 2. Issue-specific approaches No access
    3. 3. Project specific regimes (Chad-Cameroon Pipeline Project) No access
    4. 4. Summary No access
  2. 1. 1. Responsible finance No access
    2. 2. Responsible export credits No access
    3. 3. Responsible investment No access
    4. 4. Ratings, rankings, benchmarking and sustainability indices No access
    5. 5. Non-financial reporting No access
    6. 6. Summary No access
  3. 1. 1. Supply chain responsibility No access
    2. 2. The Rana Plaza Governance System No access
    3. 3. Summary No access
  4. 1. 1. Basic questions No access
    2. 2. The International Bar Association (IBA) Guidances on Business and Human Rights No access
    3. 3. The OECD/IBA Memorandum of Understanding No access
    4. 4. Summary No access
  5. V. Summary No access
8. 1. I. Enterprise No access
  2. II. Responsibility No access
  3. III. Governance No access
1. 1. 1. 1. Definitions of enterprise in the CSR debate No access
    2. 2. Conceptions of enterprise No access
    3. 3. The conception of enterprise in the context of CSR No access
    4. 4. Summary No access
  2. 1. 1. Piercing the corporate veil No access
    2. 2. Agency theory and vicarious liability No access
    3. 3. The enterprise as an economic unit No access
    4. 4. Operator responsibility No access
    5. 5. Duty of care to third parties No access
    6. 6. Contract, guarantee and factual groups No access
    7. 7. Summary No access
2. 1. 1. 1. Responsibility approaches in the CSR debate No access
    2. 2. Systematizing fundamental questions on CSR No access
    3. 3. Summary No access
  2. 1. 1. The role of enterprises No access
    2. 2. The scope and limits of enterprise responsibility No access
    3. 3. Responsibility and competition No access
    4. 4. Responsibility and power No access
    5. 5. Ethics of good intentions and ethics of results (Gesinnungs- und Verantwortungsethik) No access
    6. 6. Functional conception of enterprise and differentiated responsibility No access
    7. 7. Universalism vs. historical-cultural contextualism No access
    8. 8. Summary No access
3. 1. 1. 1. Conceptions of law No access
    2. 2. CSR as global, transnational or world law? No access
    3. 3. The transnationalization of law as a process No access
    4. 4. CSR and public international law No access
    5. 5. Summary No access
  2. 1. 1. The conception of governance No access
    2. 2. CSR governance: “smart mix” (governance by/with/without government) No access
    3. 3. Summary No access
  3. 1. 1. Erosion of national constitutions (de-constitutionalization) No access
    2. 2. New-constitutionalization? No access
    3. 3. Recommendations for legal-policy and academic discourse No access
    4. 4. Summary No access
Epilogue No access Pages 549 - 550
Bibliography No access Pages 551 - 592