Conflict Minerals Legislation: The SEC's New Role as Diplomatic and Humanitarian Watchdog

Woody, Karen E.

doi:10.2139/ssrn.2182025

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“…The US in contrast to the UK pushed for a traditional legally enforceable piece of legislation rather than a bottom‐up multi‐stakeholder initiative such as the EITI. Second, the process of passing legislation in the USA tends to be a much more drawn out and iterative process than that in the UK (Woody ; interview, Oxfam US. 7 November, 2014).…”

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Government Regulation of International Corporate Social Responsibility in the US and the UK: How Domestic Institutions Shape Mandatory and Supportive Initiatives

Knudsen

2017

Brit J Industrial Rel

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While most scholarship on corporate social responsibility (CSR) focuses on company‐level CSR initiatives, it increasingly also examines government programs for CSR. However, research on how governments contribute to CSR has mainly focused on domestic and not international CSR challenges. This literature also does not specify whether governments shape CSR through mandatory regulation or supportive initiatives. This article adopts a process‐tracing approach to determine how governments regulate international CSR. It demonstrates that the legal and political systems in the liberal market economies of the UK and the US lead to different forms of public CSR regulation — notably in the areas of labour standards in apparel and tax transparency in extractives. The UK government has been more likely to support bottom‐up collaborative multi‐stakeholder initiatives, whereas the US government has favoured top‐down mandatory regulation.

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Government Regulation of International Corporate Social Responsibility in the US and the UK: How Domestic Institutions Shape Mandatory and Supportive Initiatives

Knudsen

2017

Brit J Industrial Rel

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“…Research concerning conflict minerals and their use in electronics has mainly focused on reporting concerns about the topic, as well as commenting on and studying the effects of different international efforts to reduce the trade of such minerals [21,41,52]. However, little to no research has been done on investigating popular knowledge and awareness of the topic.…”

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What do Computer Scientists Know About Conflict Minerals?

Boluda

Patitsas

McMahan

2021

LIMITS Workshop on Computing Within Limits

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Despite low public awareness, significant social and environmental impacts are associated with computer hardware manufacturing. Particularly, many consumers do not know about conflict minerals, which are used in electronics' components and whose extraction is associated with widespread human rights abuses and environmental destruction. The literature about these minerals focuses on explaining the conflict as well as commenting and describing the legislation and other solutions that have emerged over the years to tackle this issue. This study aims to investigate the public awareness around these topics amongst computing professionals. Through an online survey, the level of familiarity of such professionals with conflict minerals was analyzed, as well as their knowledge about other socio-environmental impacts of the electronics industry. This study unveils the ignorance in the computer science community about this issue and proposes ways in which this gap of knowledge could be filled.

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“…As a result, the story is one of much greater involvement of legislators, organized interests and the judiciary than in the UK. Provision 1504 followed a ten year-long PWYP campaign issued by a coalition including NGOs such as Revenue Watch, Oxfam, Global Witness, Earthrights, the ONE Campaign and many other groups (Woody, 2013). PWYP US had long argued that the EITI offered insufficient regulation of tax payments in extractives, particularly as it then provided only national aggregate-level data not company level data.…”

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How Do Domestic Regulatory Traditions Shape CSR in Large International US and UK Firms?

Knudsen

2017

Global Policy

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This article examines corporate social responsibility (CSR) pertaining to labor standards in apparel and tax transparency in extractives and explores how domestic regulatory traditions shape CSR in large international US and UK firms. Reflecting their more collaborative business‐government traditions, British firms are more willing to join international CSR multi‐stakeholder initiatives with business‐critical actors such as unions and civil society actors. The US has a more top‐down regulatory approach, which promotes hard law international CSR or encourages business‐driven voluntary CSR initiatives. This article makes three contributions. First, it argues that while corporations are the key actors in international CSR, their behavior reflects their respective national business systems. Second, focusing on a range of international CSR initiatives, this article finds that UK firms are more interested in adopting international (multi‐stakeholder) CSR initiatives than US firms. Finally, the article shows that the US and the UK governments play a key role in driving an international CSR agenda, and in doing this it highlights government agency more so than other research has.

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Conflict Minerals Legislation: The SEC's New Role as Diplomatic and Humanitarian Watchdog

Cited by 15 publications

References 4 publications

Government Regulation of International Corporate Social Responsibility in the US and the UK: How Domestic Institutions Shape Mandatory and Supportive Initiatives

Government Regulation of International Corporate Social Responsibility in the US and the UK: How Domestic Institutions Shape Mandatory and Supportive Initiatives

What do Computer Scientists Know About Conflict Minerals?

How Do Domestic Regulatory Traditions Shape CSR in Large International US and UK Firms?

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