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This essential Research Handbook provides a comprehensive and
critical assessment of the global governance instruments related to
business and human rights from an interdisciplinary perspective.
Contributions from a diverse range of leading international
scholars offer an overview of the existing literature and
rapidly-evolving research discipline, as well as identifying key
trends and outlining an ambitious future research agenda. The
Research Handbook first examines governance initiatives that
operate across economic sectors, discussing both public and private
initiatives at state, regional and international levels that seek
to develop, implement and enforce rules with regard to the impacts
of transnational business activities on human rights. Chapters then
investigate particular economic sectors – including textiles,
electronics, agro-chemical, construction, and finance – to assess
the ways in which different initiatives attempt to mitigate risks
and address business-related human rights abuses. Scholars of law,
regulatory governance, global governance, management, human rights
and social sciences who are interested in gaining a deeper
understanding of the emerging business and human rights regime will
find this Research Handbook a crucial read. It will also prove a
useful and thorough introduction for students, scholars and
practitioners new to the field of business and human rights.
This essential Research Handbook provides a comprehensive and
critical assessment of the global governance instruments related to
business and human rights from an interdisciplinary perspective.
Contributions from a diverse range of leading international
scholars offer an overview of the existing literature and
rapidly-evolving research discipline, as well as identifying key
trends and outlining an ambitious future research agenda. The
Research Handbook first examines governance initiatives that
operate across economic sectors, discussing both public and private
initiatives at state, regional and international levels that seek
to develop, implement and enforce rules with regard to the impacts
of transnational business activities on human rights. Chapters then
investigate particular economic sectors - including textiles,
electronics, agro-chemical, construction, and finance - to assess
the ways in which different initiatives attempt to mitigate risks
and address business-related human rights abuses. Scholars of law,
regulatory governance, global governance, management, human rights
and social sciences who are interested in gaining a deeper
understanding of the emerging business and human rights regime will
find this Research Handbook a crucial read. It will also prove a
useful and thorough introduction for students, scholars and
practitioners new to the field of business and human rights.
Global governance emerged as a concept more than two decades ago.
Despite its relevance to key processes underlying the major public
policy questions of our age, the contours of 'global governance'
remain contested and elusive. This Research Review seeks to clarify
key trends and challenges in global governance by bringing together
the leading scholarship on its different forms. The Research Review
discusses key issues in relation to global governance institutions:
democracy, legitimacy, accountability, fragmentation, effectiveness
and dispute settlement.
Wielded by major economic powers, linkages between trade and such
issues as environmental protection and human rights have become a
widely used and controversial policy instrument. This volume
provides a comprehensive and authoritative analysis, across
issue-areas, of the European Union's deployment of trade to advance
its normative goals.' - Miles Kahler, Council on Foreign
Relations'The EU treaties call for the EU to promote its core
values internationally. Trade is one instrument to do so: linking
preferential access to the large EU market to convergence towards
EU or internationally agreed norms. The volume offers an insightful
discussion of the scope for, and the effectiveness of, EU trade
linkage strategies to influence the labour, environmental and human
rights-related policies of selected trade partners. It advances the
state of our knowledge on a controversial and important subject.' -
Bernard Hoekman, EUI and CEPR, Italy A 'new generation' of EU trade
policies aims to advance public goods such as promoting sustainable
development, protecting human rights and enhancing governance in
third states. The pursuit of these objectives raises important
questions regarding coherence, effectiveness, legitimacy and
extraterritoriality. In Global Governance through Trade leading
scholars from different disciplines address these topical
questions. The book contains a comprehensive analysis of the
concept of governing through trade and investigates how the EU
'exports' regulation through conditional market access regulation,
bilateral trade agreements and unilateral trade policy. Several
case studies complement the general analysis and provide an
in-depth assessment of the European Union's new trade policies.
This multidisciplinary book will be an enlightening read for a
wide-ranging audience encompassing academics, policymakers, policy
analysts and students of, amongst others, trade law and policy,
global governance, sustainable development, human rights and labor
standards. Contributors: L. Bartels, L. Beke, N.A.J. Croquet, C.
Damro, D. Geraets, N. Hachez, M. Koekkoek, J. Larik, R. Leal-Arcas,
A. Marx, P.C. Mavroidis, B. Natens, C. Ryngaert, J. Soares, G. van
Calster, C.M. Wilmarth, J. Wouters, J. Yap
This open access book is an outcome of the EU's Horizon 2020
project 'Financial and Institutional Reforms for an Entrepreneurial
Society' (FIRES). Building on historical, economic and legal
analysis, and combining methods and data across disciplines, the
authors provide policymakers, stakeholders and scholars with
valuable new tools for assessing and improving Europe's
entrepreneurial ecosystems. Then experts from Germany, Italy and
the United Kingdom discuss tailored strategies for introducing
entrepreneurial policy reforms in their respective countries.
Private regulatory initiatives aim to govern supply chains across
the globe according to a set of environmental, food safety and/or
social standards. Until now, literature on the topic has been
fragmented and divided by research fields. However, this unique and
comprehensive book bridges these disciplinary and thematic research
lines, bringing together an interdisciplinary group of leading
scholars to identify key issues. The expert contributors assess the
state-of-the-art with regard to private regulation of food, natural
resources and labour conditions. They begin with an introduction
to, and discussion of, several leading existing private standards,
and go on to assess private food standards and their legitimacy and
effectiveness in the context of the global trade regime. This truly
multidisciplinary assessment of the scope and importance of private
standards as a governance tool in a globalizing world will prove to
be an enlightening read for a wide-ranging audience encompassing:
academics, students, researchers, policymakers and analysts
focusing on private forms of governance in several sectors
including economics, law, politics, development, environment and
agriculture. Contributors: E. Becault, F. Cafaggi, L. Colen, L.
Cuyvers, T. De Meyer, N. Hachez, S. Henson, J. Humphrey, M.
Maertens, A. Marx, J. Swinnen, G.H. Stanton, F. van Waarden, J.
Wouters
Global Governance of Labour Rights provides an outstanding
collection of essays examining how international trade relations,
trade agreements and non-state actors influence labour rights
governance. This well-crafted, coherent, and thoughtful volume will
make important contributions to the ongoing debates on the
regulation and enforcement of labour rights.' - Aseem Prakash,
University of Washington, Seattle, US'The Editors have managed to
make, through this volume, a major contribution to the on-going
discussion regarding the 'internationalization' of labour rights.
Their single most important achievement is that they have produced
a coherent 'whole' out of many heterogeneous parts. Both the
intra-EU, as well as the international dimension, are skillfully
debated in a volume that does not simply view the former as a
hothouse for the latter, but discusses the interactions of the two
orders in the most systematic way.' - Petros C. Mavroidis, Columbia
Law School, New York City, US 'This excellent collection of essays
provides fresh transnational and critical perspectives on the often
ignored topic of labour rights. Ugly reports of collapsed factories
and buried workers, of slave-like conditions among migrants and
children, continue to horrify readers and viewers worldwide. What
can be done? This book contains some long-awaited answers.' -
Thomas G. Weiss, The City University of New York's Graduate Center,
US 'The bulk of the world's governments and a growing number of
firms now say they respect labour rights. Yet scholars, activists
and policymakers have little understanding of the effectiveness of
ILO conventions and government initiatives. In this important and
well-written book, we get answers to many of the most pressing
questions about how governments and private sector actors can
advance labour rights and conditions. Kudos to Marx, Wouters, Rayp
and Beke for a must-read book.' - Susan Ariel Aaronson, Research
Professor of International Affairs and Director eBay policy
scholars, Elliot School, GWU Stories and images of collapsed
factories, burned down sweatshops, imprisoned migrant workers,
child workers and many other violations of internationally
recognized labour rights continue to spread across the globe. This
highly topical book examines the different instruments which are
intended to protect labour rights on a transnational scale, and
asks whether they make a difference. With perspectives from law,
management, sociology, political science and political economy, the
topics discussed include the protection of international labour
rights in a globalizing economy, the EU's social dimension in its
external trade relations, Asian and US perspectives on labour
rights in international trade agreements, the role of (trade)
unions in global labour governance and the transformative capacity
of private labour governance regimes. Academics and advanced
students from different disciplines will benefit from the
up-to-date empirical material in this study. Policymakers, NGOs and
Unions will find the discussions of the instruments used to protect
labour rights of great value to their work. Contributors: L. Beke,
R.C. Brown, R. Coervers, Y. Dahan, J. Donaghey, P. Glasbergen, F.
Hendrickx, D. Klink, S. Koch-Baumgarten, M. Kryst, H. Lerner, A.
Marx, F. Milman-Sivan, A.-G. 'Tobi' Oshodi, P. Pecinovsky, C.
Pekdemir, G. Rayp, J. Reinecke, J. Soares, W. Van Acker, L. Van den
Putte, P. van der Heijden, S. Velluti, J. Wouters, R. Zandvliet
Changing Borders in Europe focuses on the territorial dimension of
the European Union. It examines the transformation of state
sovereignty within the EU, the emergence of varied
self-determination claims, and the existence of a tailor-made
architecture of functional borders, established by multiple
agreements. This book helps to understand how self-determination
pressures within the EU are creating growing concerns about member
states' identity, redefining multi-level government in the European
space. It addresses several questions regarding two transformative
processes - blurring of EU borders and state sovereignty shifts -
and their interrelations from different disciplinary perspectives
such as political science, law, political economy and sociology. In
addition, it explores how the variable geographies of European
borders may affect the issue of national self-determination in
Europe, opening spaces for potential accommodations that could be
compatible with existing states and legal frameworks. This book
will be of key interest for scholars, students and practitioners of
EU politics, public administration, political theory, federalism
and more broadly of European studies, international law, ethnic
studies, political economy and the wider social sciences.
Some 20 years after the emergence of configurational theory as a
key perspective in organization studies in the 1990s, this approach
has yet to deliver on its promise. While we know that
configurations the relative arrangement of parts and elements -
matters, empirical research on configurations is just beginning to
deliver on its promise.
Changing Borders in Europe focuses on the territorial dimension of
the European Union. It examines the transformation of state
sovereignty within the EU, the emergence of varied
self-determination claims, and the existence of a tailor-made
architecture of functional borders, established by multiple
agreements. This book helps to understand how self-determination
pressures within the EU are creating growing concerns about member
states' identity, redefining multi-level government in the European
space. It addresses several questions regarding two transformative
processes - blurring of EU borders and state sovereignty shifts -
and their interrelations from different disciplinary perspectives
such as political science, law, political economy and sociology. In
addition, it explores how the variable geographies of European
borders may affect the issue of national self-determination in
Europe, opening spaces for potential accommodations that could be
compatible with existing states and legal frameworks. This book
will be of key interest for scholars, students and practitioners of
EU politics, public administration, political theory, federalism
and more broadly of European studies, international law, ethnic
studies, political economy and the wider social sciences.
This open access book is an outcome of the EU's Horizon 2020
project 'Financial and Institutional Reforms for an Entrepreneurial
Society' (FIRES). Building on historical, economic and legal
analysis, and combining methods and data across disciplines, the
authors provide policymakers, stakeholders and scholars with
valuable new tools for assessing and improving Europe's
entrepreneurial ecosystems. Then experts from Germany, Italy and
the United Kingdom discuss tailored strategies for introducing
entrepreneurial policy reforms in their respective countries.
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