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Bridging the great divide? Making sense of the human rights-CSR relationship in UK multinational companies

Louise Obara, Ken Peattie

Journal of World Business, Volume: 53, Issue: 6, Pages: 781 - 793

Swansea University Author: Louise Obara

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DOI (Published version): 10.1016/j.jwb.2017.10.002

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Human rights (HR) and corporate social responsibility (CSR) are both fields of knowledge and research that have been shaped by, and examine, the role of multi-national enterprises in society. Whilst scholars have highlighted the overlapping nature of CSR and HR, our understanding of this relationshi...

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Published in: Journal of World Business
ISSN: 1090-9516
Published: Elsevier BV 2018
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