My Interest in Business Ethics

Region
International

Sector
Academic - Faculty/Staff

Areas of Interest
Corporate Citizenship ; Corporate Social Responsibility ; Human Rights


Me in Brief

Research Specialties

• Business ethics
• Economic ethics
• Business and human rights
• Corporate social responsibility
• Global justice
• Theories of justice

Current Research 

• Human rights obligations of business
• Systematics relation between human rights, justice, and CSR
• Political role and responsibilities of multinational corporations
• Foundations of rights-based justice

Major Works

“Let’s Talk Rights: Messages for the Just Corporations – Transforming the Economy Through the Language of Rights”, Journal of Business Ethics (forthcoming)

“The UN Global Compact in a Context of Voluntary Responsibility Assurance”, with Sandra Waddock, Unternehmensethik im Spannungsfeld der Kulturen und Religionen, ed. by J. Wallacher, M. Reder, and T. Karcher, Kohlhammer, 146-161, 2006.

“Voluntary or Mandatory: That is (Not) the Question. Linking Corporate Citizenship to Human Rights Obligations for Business”, with Sandra Waddock, Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Unternehmensethik, 6/3: 304-320, 2005.

“From Causality to Capability. Towards a New Understanding of the Multinational Corporation’s Enlarged Global Responsibilities”, Journal of Corporate Citizenship, Vol. 19, 104-117, 2005.

Die soziale Verantwortung der Wirtschaft. Was Bürger von Unternehmen erwarten, with York Lunau, Haupt, 2004.