BUSINESS, CORRUPTION, AND HUMAN RIGHTS: TOWARDS A NEW RESPONSIBILITY FOR CORPORATIONS TO COMBAT CORRUPTION DAVID HESS* Introduction ................................................................... 642 I. Business and Human Rights ............................................. 646 A. The Evolution of Soft Law Standards on BHR .............. 648 II. Business and Corruption ................................................ 652 A. Criminal Law Enforcement ..................................... 653 1. Enforcement under the FCPA ............................. 653 2. Criminalizing the Payment of Bribes: A Worldwide Movement ................................................... 655 B. Corporate Social Responsibility Initiatives ................... 657 III. Corruption and Human Rights......................................... 660 IV. Business, Corruption, and Human Rights ........................... 664 A. Business, Corruption, and Human Rights in the Ready Made Garment Industry........................................ 665 1. Root Causes of Human Rights Violations ............... 665 2. Supply Chain Compliance Audits: Corruption as a Barrier to Solutions ........................................ 667 B. The Problem of Business and Human Trafficking........... 670 V. Towards a New Responsibility to Combat Corruption ............. 674 A. Improving Compliance Programs through a Human Rights Perspective on Corruption ............................ 674 1. Compliance Programs: The Need for Improvement ... 674 2. Changing the Motivation to Combat Corruption: Business, Corruption, and Human Rights .............. 677 B. Expanding the Responsibility to Combat Corruption ....... 681 1. Structural Injustice and the Social Connection Model of Responsibility ............................................ 681 2. Differences from a Liability Model....................... 683 3. Fulfilling the Shared Responsibility to Combat Corruption: Political Corporate Social Responsibility ............................................... 685 a. Responsiveness .......................................... 688 b. Collaboration (Collective Action) .................... 689 c. Publicness/Transparency ............................... 692 Conclusion .................................................................... 693 * Associate Professor of Business Law, University of Michigan.
BUSINESS, CORRUPTION, AND HUMAN RIGHTS: TOWARDS A NEW RESPONSIBILITY FOR CORPORATIONS TO COMBAT CORRUPTION
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