The Equator Principles and Human Rights Due Diligence Towards a Positive and Leverage-Based Concept of Corporate Social Responsibility

Wörsdörfer, Manuel

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“…Other sectors, finance for instance, where funding of infrastructural projects has raised similar issues and discourses (see, for instance, Conley and Williams, 2011; Wörsdörfer, 2015), present possibilities for parallel analyses. The strong focus on human rights in the extraction sectors allows us to explore the method in a relatively clear manner however.…”

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Human Rights and the Grammar of Corporate Social Responsibility

O'Kelly

2019

Social & Legal Studies

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Corporate social responsibility reporting plays an important role in how business organisations articulate themselves both inside and out. Reports play a sense-making role, expressing organisational agency through narratives and accounts and from there generating patterns of self-legitimation for corporate officers. They articulate a social place for firms, 're-embedding' them socially without radically disrupting familiar processes and routines.This paper focuses on how human rights is put to work in social reporting. Human rights act both as moral expressions and as amenable to measurement, benchmarking and governance. How they are to be defined is informed by neighbouring phrases and informs other phrases in turn. As such their meaning within corporate reports is not fixed or given: meaning is clarified and developed through the textual contexts within which rights are situated. Applying text analytic techniques, I focus on the place of rights in the CSR reports of large oil and mining firms. I highlight the ways that rights are developed and the implications of narratives for our understanding of both business and human rights and of the corporate form. * Many thanks to Ciara Hackett and to Sally Wheeler for assistance in formulating the arguments in this paper.

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Human Rights and the Grammar of Corporate Social Responsibility

O'Kelly

2019

Social & Legal Studies

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The Equator Principles and Human Rights Due Diligence Towards a Positive and Leverage-Based Concept of Corporate Social Responsibility

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Human Rights and the Grammar of Corporate Social Responsibility

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