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DAX-Firms and Human Rights

Understanding Institutional and Stakeholder Pressures along the Value Chain

verfasst von: Dr. Carlo Manuel Drauth

Verlag: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden

Enthalten in: Springer Professional "Wirtschaft+Technik" , Springer Professional "Technik" , Springer Professional "Wirtschaft"

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Carlo Manuel Drauth explores under which conditions multinational enterprises systematically manage their human rights impacts with a view to preventing corporate human rights violations across their operations. Using a multi-method research design and focusing on the 30 largest German firms, the author finds that it is neither institutional forces (e.g., standards or norms) nor stakeholder pressures (e.g., from NGOs or trade unions) alone, but their combined effect that leads to a systematic human rights management at the firm-level. This finding informs a new theoretical approach to the study of CSR, integrating institutional and stakeholder theories while taking an explicit value chain perspective.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Frontmatter
Chapter 1. Introduction
Abstract
With the globalisation of firms steadily growing and reaching countries with low labour and social standards, the risks of human rights abuses across ever more complex global value chains are unlikely to diminish. In response, a multifaceted governance regime for business and human rights has emerged in recent years involving different actors (state, business, civil society) at various levels (local, national, international) relying on diverse governance modes (hierarchy, market, network).
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Chapter 2. Introduction to Topic and Research Question
Abstract
The internationalisation of corporate activities has been steadily growing in recent decades, particularly due to two trends in the global economy: First, growth in foreign direct investment by firms in subsidiaries or joint ventures abroad. Second, growth in international sourcing by firms from suppliers abroad. The importance of these two trends is illustrated by the following figures: On the first point, the foreign direct investment stock by multinational enterprises rose from $2 trillion in 1990 to $23 trillion in 2012 (UNCTAD, 2013), with employment by foreign subsidiaries increasing from 21,5 million to 71,7 million during the same period (ibid.).
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Chapter 3. Literature Review
Abstract
Having developed the research question in the previous section, the question arises as to what the academic literature has to say about the conditions under which multinational enterprises systematically manage human rights issues. As will become apparent, the literature on business and human rights has answered our research question why firms engage with human rights neither theoretically nor empirically in a satisfactory manner. As a result, this literature review also consults the broader literature on CSR adoption to get some food for thought on possible explanatory variables from a similar, but more established research field.
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Chapter 4. Theoretical Framework
Abstract
Albeit not having answered our research question, the literature review was instructive in pointing at institutional and stakeholder theories as valuable theoretical lenses through which to study the behaviour of firms. The following chapter will pick up on this and present a theoretical framework combining elements of both theories. First, however, institutional theory and stakeholder theory will be presented individually
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Chapter 5. Methods
Abstract
A multi-method research design (Lieberman, 2005; Schneider & Rohlfing, 2013) is used to empirically test the aforementioned hypotheses. This research strategy follows a two-step-logic in that it seeks, first, to identify macro effects between the conditions and the outcome in a large-N study and, second, investigate whether such macro effects are underpinned by causal mechanisms in small-N case studies.
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Chapter 6. QCA Analysis on DAX 30
Abstract
The following QCA analysis will use the just-introduced QCA-steps to empirically test the hypothesis below on all 30 DAX companies. We will test this hypothesis by applying the QCA-steps elaborated on in the previous chapter: That is, 1) a careful delineation of the population of cases to be analysed, 2) the choice of all relevant conditions possibly explaining the outcome, 3) the calibration procedure for both conditions and outcome, 4) the QCA analysis stating the consistency and coverages measures and 5) the discussion of the results.
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Chapter 7. Case Studies
Abstract
Having identified typical cases for each of the two paths leading to a systematic human rights management (Bayer and Telekom for term 1 and Linde and Merck for term 2), we can now zoom into these cases.
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Chapter 8. Findings and Discussion
Abstract
The point of departure of the dissertation was the diagnosis that while the increasing internationalisation of firms has contributed to economic growth, job creation and technology transfer on an aggregate level, it has also contributed to an increase in corporate human rights violations. With no legally-binding arrangement conceivable at the global level to ensure responsible business conduct, a new, multifaceted governance regime for human rights has emerged involving different actors (state, business, civil society) at various levels (local, national, international) relying on diverse governance modes (hierarchy, market, network) to promote corporate respect for human rights.
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Backmatter
Metadaten
Titel
DAX-Firms and Human Rights
verfasst von
Dr. Carlo Manuel Drauth
Copyright-Jahr
2018
Electronic ISBN
978-3-658-19883-1
Print ISBN
978-3-658-19882-4
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-19883-1

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