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Bringing together a diverse group of contributors, this collection addresses the impact of transnational corporations on human rights. Topics covered include corporate social responsibility; the impact of corporations on internal conflicts, and codes of conduct.

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Bringing together a diverse group of contributors, this collection addresses the impact of transnational corporations on human rights. Topics covered include corporate social responsibility, the impact of corporations on internal conflicts and codes of conduct. Case studies range from the negative effects of the Nigerian oil industry to the positive engagement by a logging company with the Nuu-chah-nulth people in Canada. The book combines the discussion of conceptual issues with an in-depth examination of specific corporations and industries.

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RICHARD BOELE Founding Director, Australian Institute of Corporate Citizenship, Australia HEIKE FABIG PhD Candidate, Graduate Research Centre for the Comparative Study of culture, Development and Environment, University of Sussex, UK RONIE GARCIA-JOHNSON Assistant Professor of Environmental Policy, Duke University, USA STUART KIRSCH Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan, USA WILLIAM H. MEYER Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and International Relations, University of Delaware, USA ALEX WAWRYK Barrister and Solicitor, Supreme Court of South Australia MORTON WINSTON Professor of Philosophy, College of New Jersey, USA

Author Biography

JEDRZEJ GEORGE FRYNAS is a Lecturer in International Management at Birmingham Business School, Birmingham University and author of Oil in Nigeria: Conflict and Litigation between Oil Companies and Village Communities. He has published widely on the activities of transnational corporations in developing countries with a focus on Africa. - SCOTT PEGG is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis. He previously taught at Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey. Dr Pegg is the author of International Society and the De Facto State as well as numerous journal articles. -

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Abbreviations An Emerging Market for the New Millennium: Transnational Corporations and Human Rights; S.Pegg Activism and Research onTransnational Corporations and Human Rights: Building a New International Normative Regime; W.H.Meyer Regulating Transnational Corporations through Corporate Codes of Conduct; A.Wawryk Corporate Responsibility for Preventing Human Rights Abuse in Conflict Areas; M.Winston The Oil Industry in Nigeria: Conflict between Oil companies and the Local People; J.G.Frynas Mining and Environmental Human Rights in Papua New Guinea; S.Kirsch US Certification Initiatives in the Coffee Industry: The Battle for Just Remuneration; R.Garcia-Johnson The Transnational Garment Industry in South and South-East Asia: A focus on Labor Rights; J.G.Frynas Timber Logging in Clayoquot Sound/Canada: Community-Corporate Partnerships and Community Rights; H.Fabig & R.Boele Index

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RICHARD BOELE Founding Director, Australian Institute of Corporate Citizenship, Australia HEIKE FABIG PhD Candidate, Graduate Research Centre for the Comparative Study of culture, Development and Environment, University of Sussex, UK RONIE GARCIA-JOHNSON Assistant Professor of Environmental Policy, Duke University, USA STUART KIRSCH Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan, USA WILLIAM H. MEYER Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and International Relations, University of Delaware, USA ALEX WAWRYK Barrister and Solicitor, Supreme Court of South Australia MORTON WINSTON Professor of Philosophy, College of New Jersey, USA

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Highly publicised human rights abuses involving corporations such as De Beers, Nike and Shell have focused attention on the impact of business on human rights. Transnational Corporations and Human Rights addresses this controversial topic through a diverse collection of essays from an interdisciplinary group of contributors. The book explores topics such as corporate social responsibility; the impact of TNCs on internal conflicts, and codes of conduct. Several chapters discuss the impact of specific corporations and industries on human rights. These case studies range from the widely publicised negative effects of foreign oil companies in Nigeria to the positive engagement by a logging company with the Nuu-chah-nulth people in Canada. The collection uniquely combines the discussion of the relationship between corporations and human rights with an in-depth examination of how companies actually operate in the brave new world of globalization and deregulation.

Details ISBN0333987993 Language English ISBN-10 0333987993 ISBN-13 9780333987995 Media Book Format Hardcover DEWEY 323 Year 2003 Imprint Palgrave Macmillan Country of Publication United Kingdom Place of Publication Basingstoke Short Title TRANSNATIONAL CORPORATIONS & H Edition Description 2003 Pages 223 DOI 10.1604/9780333987995;10.1057/9781403937520 AU Release Date 2003-06-10 NZ Release Date 2003-06-10 UK Release Date 2003-06-10 Edited by S. Pegg Illustrations XIV, 223 p. Author S. Pegg Publisher Palgrave Macmillan Publication Date 2003-06-10 Alternative 9781349431595 Audience Undergraduate We've got this

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