Skip to main content

Advertisement

SpringerLink
Log in

Advancing the Business and Human Rights Agenda: Dialogue, Empowerment, and Constructive Engagement

  • Published:
Journal of Business Ethics Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

As corporations are going global, they are increasingly confronted with human rights challenges. As such, new ways to deal with human rights challenges in corporate operations must be developed as traditional governance mechanisms are not always able to tackle them. This article presents five different views on innovative solutions for the relationships between business and human rights that all build on empowerment, dialogue and constructive engagement. The different approaches highlight an emerging trend toward a more active role for corporations in the protection of human rights. The first examines the need for enhanced dialogue between corporations and their stakeholders. The next three each examine a different facet of empowerment, a critical factor for the respect and protection of human rights: empowerment of the poor, of communities, and of consumers. The final one presents a case study of constructive corporate engagement in Myanmar (Burma). Altogether, these research projects provide insight into the complex relationships between corporate operations and human rights, by highlighting the importance of stakeholder dialogue and empowerment. All the five projects were presented during the Second Swiss Master Class in Corporate Social Responsibility, held in Lausanne, Switzerland on December 12, 2008. The audience for this conference, which examined business and human rights, was composed of researchers, governmental representatives, and business and non-governmental organization practitioners.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Similar content being viewed by others

Abbreviations

ALC:

Alternative learning centers

BOP:

Bottom(base)-of-the-pyramid

CCE:

Constructive corporate engagement

CSR:

Corporate Social Responsibility

ICESCR:

International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights

ILO:

International Labour Organization

NGO:

Non-governmental organization

NLD:

National League for Democracy

OECD:

Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development

SEP:

Socio-economic development program

SME:

Small and medium enterprise

SSP:

School support program

TNC:

Transnational corporation

UDHR:

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

UN:

United Nations

UNDP:

United Nations Development Program

UNICEF:

United Nations Children’s Fund

UNGC:

United Nations Global Compact

USDA:

Union Solidarity and Development Association

WSHG:

Women’s self-help group

References

  • African Press International: 2007, ‘Ethiopia launches US$1.67 billion rural electrification program’, online at http://africanpress.wordpress.com/2007/08/27/ethiopia-launches-us167-billion-rural-electrification-program/. Accessed 27 August

  • Alston, P. & Robson, M.: 2005, Human Rights and Development: Towards Mutual Reinforcement, (Oxford University Press, Oxford).

    Google Scholar 

  • ALTSEAN: 2002, A Peace of Pie? Burma’s Humanitarian Aid Debate, Bangkok: Alternative ASEAN Network on Burma.

    Google Scholar 

  • ALTSEAN: 2003, Ready, Aim, Sanction!, Alternative ASEAN Network on Burma.

    Google Scholar 

  • Amnesty International: 2008, Amnesty International Report 2008 - The State of the World’s Human Rights, London: Amnesty International.

    Google Scholar 

  • Andersen, E. A. & Sano, H. O.: 2006, Human rights indicators at programme and project level – guidelines for defining indicators monitoring and evaluation, Copenhagen: The Danish Institute for Human Rights.

    Google Scholar 

  • Anderson, M. & Ganson, B.: 2008, Corporate Engagement Project. Report of Fifth CDA/CEP Visit to the Yadana Pipeline. Myanmar/Burma. February 9‐17 2008 in Myanmar/Burma. February 18 in Bangkok, Thailand, Boston, MA.: Collaborative For Development Action.

    Google Scholar 

  • Bamberg, S. & Moser, G.: 2007, ‘Twenty years after Hines, Hungerford, and Tomera: A new meta-analysis of psycho-social determinants of pro-environmental behaviour’, Journal of Environmental Psychology 27, 14-25.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Baumann, D. and A. G. Scherer: forthcoming, ‘Multinational Corporations as Corporate Citizens. An Empirical Analysis of UN Global Compact Participants in Switzerland’, Paper Presented at Academy of Management Meeting

  • Baur, D.: 2008, ‘A normative framework for NGOs as legitimate stakeholders of civil society’, PhD Thesis, University of St-Gallen

  • Bernasek, A. & Porter, R. C.: 1997, ‘Private Pressure for Social Change in South Africa: the Impact of the Sullivan Principles’, Review of Social Economy LV(2), 172-93.

    Google Scholar 

  • Black, N.: 2009, Blood Money. A Grounded Theory of Corporate Citizenship - Myanmar (Burma) as a Case in Point, (University of Waikato, Hamilton).

    Google Scholar 

  • Business for Social Responsibility: 2009, ‘Human Rights’, Online: http://www.bsr.org/consulting/services/human-rights.cfm. Accessed 01 June 2009

  • Business Partners for Development: 2002, Putting Partnering to Work, Results and Recommendations for Business, Business Partners for Development.

    Google Scholar 

  • Cassel, D.: 2001, ‘Human Rights and Business Responsibilities in the Global Marketplace’, Business Ethics Quarterly 11(2), 261-74.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Chandler, G.: 2003, ‘The evolution of the business and human rights debate’, in R. Sullivan (ed.) Business and Human Rights: Dilemmas and Solutions, (Greenleaf Publishing, Sheffield), pp. 22-32.

    Google Scholar 

  • Crane, A. & Matten, D.: 2007, Business Ethics, (Oxford University Press, New-York).

    Google Scholar 

  • de Leede, M.: 2007, Partnerships on Development, Sweden: Lund University.

    Google Scholar 

  • Devinney, T., P. Auger, G. Eckhardt and T. Birtchnell: 2006a, ‘The other CSR’, Stanford Social Innovation Review Fall, 30–37

  • Devinney, T., G. Eckhardt and R. Belk: 2006b, Why don’t Consumers Behave Ethically? The Social Construction of Consumption (Australian Graduate School of Management)

  • Dhanda, K. K. & Hill, R. P.: 2007, ‘Consumption and environmental degradation: A Long term View’, Advances in International Management 20, 297-317.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Dunfee, T. W., N. C. Smith and W. T. Ross Jr.: 1999, ‘Social Contracts and Marketing Ethics’, Journal of Marketing 63 (July), 14-32.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Duruigbo, E.: 2008, ‘Corporate Accountability and Liability for International Human Rights Abuses: Recent Changes and Recurring Challenges’, Northwestern University Journal of International Human Rights 6(2), 222-61.

    Google Scholar 

  • Ethical Consumerism Report: 2007, Ethical Consumerism Report (The Cooperative Bank, Manchester, UK).

    Google Scholar 

  • Freedman, J. L. & Fraser, S. C.: 1996, ‘Compliance without pressure: The foot-in-the-door technique’, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 4(2), 195-202.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Freedom House: 2008, Freedom in the World 2008. Freedom House, New York

    Google Scholar 

  • Gill, A.: 2008, ‘Corporate Governance as Social Responsibility’, Paper presented at Berkeley Journal of International Law

  • Global Witness: 2003, A Conflict of Interests - The uncertain future of Burma’s forests, Washington, D.C.: Global Witness.

    Google Scholar 

  • Greenall, D. & Rovere, D.: 1999, Engaging Stakeholders and Business-NGO Partnerships in Developing Countries: Maximizing an Increasingly Important Source of Value. The Centre for Innovation in Corporate Responsibility, Ottawa.

    Google Scholar 

  • Grönroos, C.: 2000, Service management and Marketing – A Customer Relationship Management Approach, (John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Baffins Lane, Chichester).

    Google Scholar 

  • Habermas, J.: 1990, Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action, (MIT Press, Cambridge).

    Google Scholar 

  • Habermas, J.: 1998, The Inclusion of the Other: Studies in Political Theory, (MIT Press, Cambridge, MA).

    Google Scholar 

  • Habermas, J.: 2001, The Postnational Constellation: Political Essays, (MIT Press, Cambridge, MA).

    Google Scholar 

  • Halme, M. and S. Lindeman: 2009, ‘Innovating Sustainable Energy for the Rural BOP: Bricolage and Intrapreneurship in ABB’s Mini-Hydro Power Project in Rural Ethiopia’, Paper Presented at Joint action on Climate Change Conference, June 8–10, 2009

  • Halme, M. & Laurila, J.: 2009, ‘Philantrophy, Integration or Innovation ? Exploringas the financial and societal Outcomes of Different types of Corporate Responsibility’, Journal of Business Ethics 84(3), 325-39.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Hammond, A., Kramer, B., Katz, R., Tran, J. & Walker, C.: 2007, The next 4 billion: Market size and business strategy at the base of the pyramid, (World Resources Institute and International Finance Corporation, Washington D.C.).

    Google Scholar 

  • Hart, S. L.: 2005, Capitalism at the Crossroads: The Unlimited Business Opportunities in Solving the World’s most Difficult Problems, (Wharton School Publishing, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey).

    Google Scholar 

  • Hassel, A.: 2008, ‘The Evolution of a Global Labor Governance Regime’, Governance 21(2), 231-51.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Hepker, J.: 2004, ‘Premier Oil’, in A. Newton (ed.) The Business and Human Rights Management Report - A study of eight companies and their approaches to human rights policy and management system development, (Ethical Corporation, London), pp. 62-71.

    Google Scholar 

  • Hilhorst, D.: 2003, The real world of NGOs: discourses, diversity, and development, (Zed Books, London).

    Google Scholar 

  • Hunt, P., Nowak, M. & Osmani, S.: 2004, Human Rights and Poverty Reduction: A Conceptual Framework, New York and Geneva: OHCHR publication, United Nations.

    Google Scholar 

  • Igboemeka, A.: 2005, ‘Aid Effectiveness in Burma/Myanmar: Study on Development Agency Perceptions’, A Study Commissioned by the UK Department for International Development – South East Asia

  • ILO 138: 1999, ‘ILO Convention No. 138 on the Minimum Age for Admission to Employment and Work’, Online: http://www.ilo.org/ilolex/cgi-lex/convde.pl?C138

  • ILO 182: 1999, ‘ILO Convention No. 182 on the Worst Forms of Child Labour’, Online: http://www.ilo.org/ilolex/cgi-lex/convde.pl?C182

  • Inafi International - Oxfam Novib - Ordina: 2007, ‘Social Impact Measurement Project?’, SIM Theoretical Background Paper

  • International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights: 2002, Online: http://www2.ohchr.org/english/law/cescr.htm, United Nations

  • International Crisis Group: 2008, Burma/Myanmar after Nargis: Time to Normalise Aid Relations, Bangkok/Brussels: International Crisis Group.

    Google Scholar 

  • Jenkins, R.: 2005, ‘Globalisation, Corporate Social Responsibility and Poverty’, International Affairs 81(3), 525-540

    Google Scholar 

  • Jones, R.: 2006, ‘Making a Responsible Corporate Contribution to Modern Diplomacy in Myanmar’, in T. Wilson (ed.) Myanmar’s Long Road to National Reconciliation, (Institute of SouthEast Asian Studies, Singapore), pp.

    Google Scholar 

  • Judd, T.: 2007, ‘Firms that invest in Burma ‘have paid for bullets’’, Independent, London).

    Google Scholar 

  • Jungk, M.: 2006, Complicity in Human Rights Violations; A Responsible Business Approach to Suppliers (The Human Rights & Business Project: Danish Institute for Human Rights)

  • Kaeb, C.: 2008, ‘Emerging Issues of Human Rights Responsibility in the Extractive and Manufacturing Industries: Patterns and Liability Risks’, Northwestern Journal of International Human Rights 6(2), 327-53.

    Google Scholar 

  • Kandachar & Halme, M.: 2008, ‘Sustainability Challenges and Solutions at the Base of the Pyramid: Business, Technology and the Poor’, (Greenleaf, London).

    Google Scholar 

  • Karnani, A.: 2007a, ‘Doing well by doing good-case study: `Fair & Lovely’ whitening cream’, Strategic Management Journal 28(13), 1351-57.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Karnani, A.: 2007b, ‘Misfortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid’, Greener Management International 51, 99-110.

    Google Scholar 

  • Katzev, R. & Wang, T.: 1994, ‘Can commitment change behavior? A case study of environmental actions’, Journal of Social Behavior and Personality 9, 13-26.

    Google Scholar 

  • Kinley, D. & Nolan, J.: 2008, ‘Human rights, corporations and the global economy: an international law perspective’, in A. G. Scherer & G. Palazzo (eds.), Handbook of Research on Global Corporate Citizenship, (Edward Elgar, Cheltenham), pp. 343-73.

    Google Scholar 

  • Knox, S. & Maklan, S.: 2004, ‘Corporate social responsibility: moving beyond investment towards measuring outcomes’, European Management Journal 22(5), 508-16.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Kolås, A. & Tønnesson, S.: 2006, Burma and Its Neighbours: The Geopolitics of Gas, Nautilus Institute.

    Google Scholar 

  • Kurlantzick, J.: 2004, ‘Taking Multinationals to Court’, World Policy Journal 21(1), 60-67.

    Google Scholar 

  • Laufer, W. S.: 2003, ‘Social Accountability and Greenwashing’, Journal of Business Ethics 43, 253-61.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Lindeman, S.: 2006, ‘A New Approach to Business and Human Rights’, Thesis for the European Master’s Degree in Human Rights and Democratisation: Danish Institute for Human Rights – The Business and Human Rights Project

  • Luchs, M., W. R. Naylor, J. Irwin and R. Raghunathan: 2008, ‘Do Consumers Intuitively Believe That Ethically Superior Products are Functionally Inferior? Exposing an Underlying Cause of Inconsistencies Between Ethical Values and Purchasing Behavior’, Paper Presented at Society for Consumer Psychology Conference. February 21–23, New Orleans, LA

  • McCrudden, C.: 1999, ‘Human Rights Codes for Transnational Corporations: What can the Sullivan and MacBride Principles Tell Us?’, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 19(Summer), 167–202

    Google Scholar 

  • McKenzie-Mohr, D.: 2000, ‘Fostering sustainable behavior through community-based social marketing’, American Psychologist 55(5), 531-37.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • McKenzie-Mohr, D. & Smith, W.: 1999, Fostering sustainable behavior: An introduction to community-based social marketing, (NewSociety Publishers, Gabriola Island, British Columbia, Canada).

    Google Scholar 

  • Normann, R.: 2001, Reframing business : when the map changes the landscape, (Wiley & Sons, Chichester).

    Google Scholar 

  • O’Rourke, D.: 2003, ‘Outsourcing Regulation: Analyzing Nongovernmental Systems of Labor Standards and Monitoring’, The Policy Studies Journal 31(1), 1-29.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • OECD: 2002, Multinational Enterprises in Situations of Violent Conflict and Widespread Human Rights Abuses (Directorate for Financial, Fiscal and Enterprise Affairs, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development)

  • Ougaard, M.: 2005, ‘The CSR movement and Global Governance’, in S. S. Sengupta (ed.) Business-Social Partnership: An International Perspective, (Aalekh Publishers, Jaipur), pp. 142-58.

    Google Scholar 

  • Palazzo, G. & Scherer, A. G.: 2006, ‘Corporate Legitimacy as Deliberation: A Communicative Framework’, Journal of Business Ethics 66, 71-88.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Prahalad, C. K. and A. Hammond: 2002, ‘Serving the World’s Poor, Profitably’, Harvard Business Review September 2002, pp. 48–57

  • Prahalad, C. K.: 2005, The Bottom of the Pyramid – Eradicating Poverty through Profits, (Wharton School Publishing, Upper Saddle River).

    Google Scholar 

  • Risse, T.: 2004a, ‘Transnational Governance and Legitimacy’, Working Paper

  • Risse, T.: 2004b, ‘Global Governance and Communicative Action’, Government and Opposition 39(2), 288-313.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Ruggie, J. G.: 2007, ‘Business and Human rights: The Evolving International Agenda’, The American Journal of International Law 101(4), 819-40.

    Google Scholar 

  • Ruggie, J.: 2008a, ‘Report of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on the Issue of Human Rights and Transnational Corporations and Other Business Enterprises: Protect, Respect and Remedy: A Framework for Business and Human Rights’, A/HRC/8/5: Human Rights Council, UN

  • Ruggie, J.: 2008b, ‘Report of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on the Issue of Human Rights and Transnational Corporations and Other Business Enterprises. Protect, Respect and Remedy: A Framework for Business and Human Rights’, A/HRC/8/57

  • Scherer, A., G. Palazzo and D. Seidl: 2008, ‘Legitimacy Strategies as Complexity Reduction in a Post-national World: A Systems-Theory Perspective’, Paper Presented at 4th Organization Studies summer workshop, Embracing Complexity: Advancing Ecological Understanding in Organizational Studies, June 5–7

  • Scherer, A. G., Palazzo, G. & Baumann, D.: 2006, ‘Global Rules and Private Actors - Towards a New Role of the TNC in Global Governance’, Business Ethics Quarterly 16(4), 505-32.

    Google Scholar 

  • Schermerhorn, J. R.: 1999, ‘Terms of Global Business Engagement in Ethically Challenging Environments: Applications to Burma.’, Business Ethics Quarterly 9(3), 485-505.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Schultz, P. W. & Zelezny, L.: 2003, ‘Reframing environmental messages to be congruent with American values’, Human Ecology Review 10(2), 126-36.

    Google Scholar 

  • Seelos, C. & Mair, J.: 2007, ‘Profitable business models and market creation in the context of deep poverty: A strategic view’, Academy of Management Perspectives 21(4), 49-63.

    Google Scholar 

  • Sen, A.: 1999, Development as Freedom, (Oxford University Press, Oxford).

    Google Scholar 

  • Sethi, S. P. & Williams, O. F.: 2000, ‘Creating and Implementing Global Codes of Conduct: An Assessment of the Sullivan Principles as a Role Model for Developing International Codes of Conduct - Lessons Learned and Unlearned’, Business & Society Review 105(2), 169-200.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Shamir, R.: 2008, ‘The age of responsibilization: on market-embedded morality’, Economy and Society 37(1), 1-19.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Simanis, E. and S. Hart: 2008, The Base of the Pyramid Protocol: Towards Next Generation BoP Strategy (Cornell University, Internet Publication)

  • Smith, M.: 1999, Burma. Insurgency and the politics of ethnicity, (Zed Books, London).

    Google Scholar 

  • Smith, C. N.: 2007, ‘Consumers as Drivers of Social Responsibility’, in A. Crane, A. McWilliams, D. Matten, J. Moon & D. Siegel (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Corporate Social Responsibility, (Oxford University Press, Oxford), pp. 281-302.

    Google Scholar 

  • Soper, K.: 2004, ‘Rethinking the “good life’’: the consumer as citizen’, Capitalism, Nature, Socialism 15(3), 111-16.

    Google Scholar 

  • Spar, D. L. & La Mure, L. T.: 2003, ‘The Power of Activism : Assessing the Impact of NGOs on Global Business’, California Management Review 45(3), 78-101.

    Google Scholar 

  • Sullivan, R.: 2003, Business and Human Rights: Dilemmas and Solutions, (Greenleaf Publishing, Sheffield, UK).

    Google Scholar 

  • Tanner, C.: 1999, ‘Constraints on Environmental Behaviour’, Journal of Environmental Psychology 19, 145–157

    Google Scholar 

  • Teoh, S. H., Welch, I. & Wazzan, C. P.: 1999, ‘The Effect of Socially Activist Investment Policies on the Financial Markets: Evidence from the South African Boycott’, Journal of Business 72(1), 35-89.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Thogersen, J.: 2006, ‘How may consumer policy empower consumers for sustainable lifestyles?’, Journal of Consumer Policy 28, 143-78.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Total SA: 2007, ‘Total in Myanmar – A Sustained Commitment’, Online: http://burma.total.com/en/publications/sustained_commitment.pdf

  • Transparency International: 2008, ‘Country Reports: Asia and the Pacific’, in Transparency International (ed.), Global Corruption Report 2008 – Corruption in the Water Sector (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge), pp. 181–224

  • Tripathi, S.: 2007. ‘Trade and Security Trump Democracy in Burma – Part II’, YaleGlobal, online at http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/display.article?id=9764

  • UBS: 2007, ‘Human Rights’, Online: http://www.ubs.com/1/e/about/corporate_responsibility/society/humanrights.html

  • UNDP: 2008, ‘Creating Value for all: Strategies for Doing Business with the Poor’ (United Nations Development Programme, New York)

  • UNGC: 2007, Joining Forces for Change: Demonstrating Innovation and Impact Through UN-Business Partnerships (UN Global Compact), http://www.globalcompactsummit.org/docs/UNGC07-JoiningForcesForChange.pdf

  • Utting, P.: 2002, Regulating business via multi-stakeholders initiatives: a preliminary assessment, (UNRISD, Geneva).

    Google Scholar 

  • Utting, P.: 2007, ‘CSR and Equality’, Third World Quarterly 28(4), 697-712.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action: 1993, A/CONF.157/23: United Nations General Assembly

  • Viswanayhan, M.: 2007, ‘Product and Market Interactions in Subsistence Marketplaces’, Advances in International Management 20, 21-57.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Vogel, D.: 2005, The Market for Virtue: The Potential and Limits of Corporate Social Responsibility, (Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C.).

    Google Scholar 

  • Warhurst, A.: 2005, ‘Future roles of business in society: the expanding boundaries of corporate responsibility and a compelling case for partnership’, Futures 37, 153.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Warner, M. & Sullivan, R.: 2004, Putting Partnership To Work, Strategic Alliances for development between government, the private sector and civil society, (Greenleaf Publishing, London).

    Google Scholar 

  • Williams, J. D., Qualls, W. J. & Ferguson, N.: 2007, ‘Potential Vulnerabilities of U.S. Subsistence consumers to Persuasive Marketing Communication’, Advances in International Management 20, 89-110.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • World Business Council for Sustainable Development: 2005. ‘Business for Development: Business solutions in support of the Millennium Development Goals’, September, online at www.wbcsd.org

  • Zandvliet, L. & Fraser, D.: 2004, Field Visit Report. Third Visit. Yadana Gas Transportation Project. Moattama Gas Transportation Company. Operator: Total. Myanmar/Burma. Field Visit: November 22-December 6, 2003, Boston, MA: Collaborative For Development Action.

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Acknowledgments

We would like to thank Guido Palazzo for the opportunity he gave us to present the research projects developed in this article at the Swiss Master Class in CSR 2008 and for his valuable comments on the manuscript. We are grateful to the Masters and the audience of the Swiss Master Class for the constructive comments and discussions raised during the conference. Finally, we also would like to thank Julia Breslin for the copyediting of this article.

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Faculty of Business & Economics (HEC), University of Lausanne, HEC Internef 526, 1015, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Sébastien Mena

  2. Raoul Wallenberg Institute, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

    Marieke de Leede

  3. University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

    Dorothée Baumann

  4. University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

    Nicky Black

  5. Hanken School of Economics, Helsinki, Finland

    Sara Lindeman

  6. Queen’s School of Business, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada

    Lindsay McShane

Authors
  1. Sébastien Mena
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Marieke de Leede
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. Dorothée Baumann
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  4. Nicky Black
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  5. Sara Lindeman
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  6. Lindsay McShane
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Sébastien Mena.

Additional information

Sébastien Mena and Marieke de Leede contributed equally to the paper.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Mena, S., de Leede, M., Baumann, D. et al. Advancing the Business and Human Rights Agenda: Dialogue, Empowerment, and Constructive Engagement. J Bus Ethics 93, 161–188 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-009-0188-8

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-009-0188-8

Key words

Search

Navigation