The European Union, Emerging Global Business and Human Rights

A human rights study of businesses from emerging and developing countries acting as competitors to European Union-based businesses.

Aleydis Nissen (Author)

9781009284301, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 17 November 2022

288 pages
23.5 x 15.9 x 2.9 cm, 0.67 kg

Emerging and developing states are home to powerful corporations capable of deploying economic activities on a global scale through the rapid pace of technological change and globalisation. But such corporations have to date been largely overlooked in the field of business and human rights. Treatment of such corporations has typically been in the context of supply chain studies, as subsidiaries of corporations from economically developed Western states. This book takes a radically different approach. It aims to investigate the conditions under which the European Union and its Member States regulate and remedy human rights violations by corporations from emerging and developing states. Stemming from the hypothesis that the EU intends to play a central role, Aleydis Nissen explores how the EU and its Member States attempt to ensure that EU-based businesses are not undercut by emerging competition, drawing on global examples to illustrate this developing phenomenon.

1. Introduction
Part I. International Perspective: 2. International law
Part II. Perspective of the European Union and its Member States: 3. The European Union
4. European Union Member State: France
5. European Union Member State: The Netherlands
Part III. Perspective of Developing and Emerging States: 6. Case Study: Kenyan Floriculture Industry
7. Case Study: South Korean Electronics Industry
8. Conclusions.

Subject Areas: Business ethics & social responsibility [KJG], Human rights [JPVH], EU & European institutions [JPSN2]