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New Business and Human Rights Laws—Support for Social Upgrading?

In: Economic and Social Upgrading in Global Value Chains

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  • Stefanie Lorenzen

    (HWR Berlin (Berlin School of Economics and Law))

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A governance gap regarding the responsibility of lead firms for working conditions in supplier firms characterizes global value chains (GVCs). While international “hard law” treaties exist for human rights and labour standards, these instruments only address national governments. A long-standing approach to creating accountability for lead firms has been private standard setting through corporate social responsibility (CSR). Both its voluntary nature and the attempt to solve the structural human rights deficits in GVCs on a micro/business level have prevented CSR from having crucial impact. Against this backdrop, regional and national mandatory laws in the field of business and human rights are increasingly being passed to fill the liability gap and establish responsibility of lead firms for human rights of workers and communities.

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  • Stefanie Lorenzen, 2022. "New Business and Human Rights Laws—Support for Social Upgrading?," Springer Books, in: Christina Teipen & Petra Dünhaupt & Hansjörg Herr & Fabian Mehl (ed.), Economic and Social Upgrading in Global Value Chains, chapter 0, pages 437-466, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-030-87320-2_17
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-87320-2_17
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