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Managing Sustainability‐Related Human Rights Risks: The Role of Multilevel Governance and Institutional Accountability

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sustainability‐related human rights risks, including forced labour, labour exploitation and other forms of human rights abuse, remain persistent challenges across countries, particularly where corporate accountability and national institutional frameworks are weak.
Doaa Shohaieb   +3 more
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Towards an Integrated Approach to Corporate Sustainability: The Role of Multi‐Stakeholder Value Co‐Creation in the Food and Beverage Sector

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ABSTRACT The growing emphasis on sustainability has prompted companies to engage with stakeholders in addressing environmental and social challenges. This paper investigates how companies and stakeholders co‐create value through a collaborative and iterative process that facilitates the formulation and implementation of sustainable strategies.
Meryem Altaf   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Data‐Driven Pathways to Circular E‐Waste Management

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ABSTRACT As the volume and complexity of electronic waste grow worldwide, regional and subnational systems are increasingly tasked with managing the environmental, economic, and social challenges of circular resource recovery. This paper focuses on Canada's e‐waste sector to examine how circular economy (ce) principles can be integrated into regional ...
Saidia Ali   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Critical Success Factors and Stakeholder Influence for Environmental, Social and Governance Assessment and Reporting

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ABSTRACT Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) assessment criteria have drawn substantial attention by investors in recent years. ESG factors have been considered by investors to create greater wealth and better investment decisions and opportunities. However, there are ambiguities about ESG assessment and reporting with issues of transparency and
Caleb Boadi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The civil society sector

Society, 1997
Salamon and Anheier bring the civil society sector - the plethora of private, nonprofit, and nongovernmental organizations that have emerged in recent decades - into better focus conceptually as well as empirically. They draw on the results of a major inquiry into the scope, structure, financing and role of the "nonprofit sector" in a broad cross ...
Anheier, Helmut K. (President, Dean and Professor of Sociology)   +1 more
openaire   +1 more source

The WTo and Civil Society

Journal of World Trade, 1999
In line with a general trend in contemporary global governance, the World Trade Organization has been developing increased links with civil society groups. If conducted well, these contacts can make important contributions towards greater effectiveness and democracy in the global trade regime.
Jan Aart Scholte   +2 more
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The Contribution of Civil Society

2013
Ranging from single individual to institution and groups, civil society encompasses all structures that have the goal of advancing a common purpose through ideas, actions, and demands on governments [1]. Civil society also includes non-governmental organizations (NGOs). NGOs do not include profit-making activity and are not created by intergovernmental
MATTAROLO, LORENZO   +1 more
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Civil society and the civilizing mission

2020
This chapter starts with the liberal conception of a "global civil society". The globalization of the concept of civil society is one aspect of the emergent global civil society, for it shows how civil society ideas and languages and institutions are spreading beyond their place of origin into new contexts.
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Civil Society, Globalization, and Global Civil Society

Journal of Civil Society, 2008
Recently, there has been much discussion of ‘global civil society’. This concept evidently draws on the more familiar civil society concept as related to national societies. What are the consequences of extending the concept in this way? Is global civil society simply civil society writ large, an extension to the international plane of basically the ...
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Civil Society

2009
Abstract Historically the concept of ‘civil society’ has been an almost purely western concept, tied to the political emancipation of European citizens from former ‘feudalistic’ ties, monarchy, and the state during the 18th and 19th centuries.
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