Human Rights and the Moral Responsibilities of Corporate and Public Sector Organisations (Issues in Business Ethics)
Contributors: Tom Campbell (Editor); Seumas Miller (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: August 10, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9781402023606
Subjects: Business ethics; Human rights; Political Science; Corporations; Public administration; Business / Economics / Finance; Political Freedom & Security - Human Rights; Law; Politics/International Relations; Moral and ethical aspects; International; Business Etiquette; Economics - General; Business & Economics / Business Etiquette; Business & Economics-Economics - General; Law-International; Philosophy / Ethics & Moral Philosophy
Description: All students and advocates of human rights will be interested in this concerted exploration of the human rights moral obligations that fall, not directly on states, but on private and public organisations. Such an approach to human rights opens up the possibility of holding corporations and bureaucracies to account for human rights violations even when they have acted in accordance with the law. This interdisciplinary and international project brings together eminent philosophers, lawyers, social scientists and practitioners to articulate theoretically and develop in practical contexts the moral implications of human rights for non-state actors. What emerges from the book as a whole is a distinctive contemporary vision of the emerging moral impact of human rights and its significance for organisational behaviour and performance.