Bibliograph

Changing sustainability norms through communication processes, the emergence of the business and human rights regime as transnational law, Karin Buhmann

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Label

Changing sustainability norms through communication processes, the emergence of the business and human rights regime as transnational law, Karin Buhmann

Language

eng

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Changing sustainability norms through communication processes

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

1016950899

Responsibility statement

Karin Buhmann

Series statement

ElgarOnline eBooksCorporations, globalisation and the law

Sub title

the emergence of the business and human rights regime as transnational law

Summary

Applying the emergent Business and Human Rights (BHR) regime as a case, this book analyses regulatory strategies, communicative approaches and public-private processes to develop new sustainability-related norms, particularly for business, for maintaining and promoting public policy objectives and societal needs. Karin Buhmann sets out the concerns of public regulators and businesses that both inform debates and create power struggles in the construction of sustainability norms between public policy interests and the market. The author focuses on three trends in argumentative strategies applied in the BHR context and considers the use, impact and complementarity of these for sustainability regulation. Through analysis of selected transnational regulatory processes, the book identifies argumentative and negotiation strategies that led to agreement on BHR despite conflicting interests across public, private and not-for-profit (NGO) stakeholders, and develops insights for future multi-stakeholder sustainability regulation, focusing both on the regulatory process and the outcome. Changing Sustainability Norms through Communication Processes will be a valuable read for NGOs, regulators, managers and academics with a concern for sustainability regulation by helping to enhance their understanding of how to influence normative change in organisations, in support of sustainability and responsible business conduct

Table Of Contents

Contents: Part I Setting the stage -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The context: the CSR discourse and its relation to human rights -- 3. Argumentative strategies, discourse and system-specific rationality -- Part II Discursive construction of business responsibilities for CSR -- 4. Two steps forward, one back - more than once: developing normative guidance for business on human rights in a CSR context -- 5. From incremental steps to emerging regime -- Part III Arguing for change -- 6. Argumentative strategies -- 7. Conclusion -- Index

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