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Project

Innovationplatform for Business and Human Rights.

In June 2011, the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council 'endorsed' the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs). The UNGPs have attracted considerable academic interest, yet research has tended to travel along distinct tracks addressing the topic from either a human rights law or management perspective. The purpose of this Network is to promote collaboration between scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds to identify and examine the conceptual, practical and normative issues that arise in the application and concretization of the UNGPs. The focus of the network will be on bringing insights from law and management together to build upon the UNGPs, to facilitate common understandings of concepts and to ensure that the concepts are readily applicable in both the law and management context. The network will promote the exchange of ideas, sharing of information and collaboration on business and human rights in four different research domains: international public and private law, management, philosophy/business ethics, corporate governance. The aim is to foster mutual understandings, identify knowledge gaps, spur innovative research in these areas and further devise conceptual anchors on which future interdisciplinary academic research can built. This is a fundamental research project financed by the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO). The project was subsidized after selection by the FWO-expert panel.
Date:1 Jan 2015 →  31 Dec 2019
Keywords:INNOVATION MANAGEMENT, CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY, HUMAN RIGHTS, LAW
Disciplines:Law, Other law and legal studies
Project type:Collaboration project