Hard soft law or soft hard law? A content analysis of CSR guidelines typologized along hybrid legal status

Marta Cominetti () and Peter Seele ()
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Marta Cominetti: Universita della Svizzera Italiana
Peter Seele: Universita della Svizzera Italiana

Sustainability Nexus Forum, 2016, vol. 24, issue 2, No 2, 127-140

Abstract: Abstract A CSR guideline is an instrument aimed at guiding companies towards the application of CSR to limit the impact that the company has on society. The main problem concerned with CSR guidelines is that their legal status is blurred and as a consequence, their level of enforceability is not clearly understandable. Therefore, this paper focuses on defining the legal status of CSR guidelines through a content analysis of a sample of 34 CSR guidelines.

Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility; Legal Status; Corporate Activity; Voluntary Initiative; Fair Labor Association (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1007/s00550-016-0425-4

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