Professor Florian Wettstein, University of St. Gallen

'Three perspectives on the relation between BHR and CSR'
Wednesday 25 May, 1.00pm-2.15pm
Zoom online seminar

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Abstract

The relationship between the long-standing discussion on corporate social responsibility (CSR) and the more recent discussion on business and human rights (BHR) has attracted some scholarly attention by now, producing different and sometimes conflicting conceptualisations. In this seminar we will assess three such proposals and reflect on their interrelation and the implications deriving from them. The three perspectives emphasise 1) BHR as a critical response to CSR, 2) the co-optation or colonisation of BHR by CSR, and 3) the co-evolutionary potential of the two discussions. What is at stake is the legitimacy of CSR both as a practice and a scholarly concept, and the very viability of BHR as a distinct field of scholarship.

Biography

Florian Wettstein is Chair and Professor of Business Ethics and Director of the Institute for Business Ethics at University of St. Gallen in Switzerland.  Florian has published widely on topics at the intersection of corporate responsibility, business ethics and business and human rights and is the author of Multinational Corporations and Global Justice: Human Rights Obligations of a Quasi-Governmental Institution (Stanford University Press, 2009), and of the recently published textbook, Business and Human Rights: Ethical, Legal, and Managerial Perspectives (Cambridge University Press, 2022). Florian is a founding Editor-in-Chief of the Business and Human Rights Journal (BHRJ).

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First published: 5 May 2022

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