The European Union, Emerging Global Business and Human Rights: Introduction

Aleydis Nissen

A chapter in The European Union, Emerging Global Business and Human Rights, 2022, pp 1-20 from ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics

Abstract: Emerging and developing states are home to powerful corporations capable of deploying economic activities on a global scale. 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.

Keywords: spiral model; Samsung; Moi administration; conflict minerals; semiconductors; access to justice; external relations of the EU; constructivism; WTO; ILO (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A14 D03 F13 F16 F23 F53 F54 F66 H77 J08 J83 K20 K31 K33 K41 L72 O19 O52 O53 O55 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1017/9781009284295.002

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