“Why Should We Care about Marriage Equality?”: Political Advocacy as a Part of Corporate Responsibility

Wettstein, Florian; Baur, Dorothea

doi:10.1007/s10551-015-2631-3

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“…Furthermore, they are increasingly expected to take a stand on social issues, 30 engage in human rights advocacy 31 and actively support human rights defenders. 32 Corporations, in other words, are expected to become 'corporate human rights defenders'themselves.…”

Section: The Political Role Of Corporationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Editorial: Business and Human Rights Scholarship: Past Trends and Future Directions

Deva¹,

Ramasastry²,

Santoro³

2019

Bus. and hum. rights j.

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When the Business and Human Rights Journal (BHRJ) was launched in 2016, we, the journal editors, embarked on a mission to make it 'an authoritative forum for scholars and practitioners to exchange cutting-edge ideas about the complex and evolving relationship of human rights with business'. 1 At the three-year mark, we are proud of the journal's role in helping to define the field and promoting dialogue on many topical business and human rights (BHR) issues. BHRJ reaches a wide audience of both legal and non-legal BHR scholars and professionals. In 2018, the journal achieved 58,006 abstract views (34,083 in 2017) and 24,182 full text views (20,250 in 2017) through the Cambridge University Press online platform. Looking at the ten most downloaded papers both for 2018 and overall, roughly two-thirds of those articles were written by legal scholars. This reflects almost exactly the ratio of legal to non-legal articles we have published so far. Thus, while legal scholars are still predominant in the discussion on the publication side, non-legal articles find a substantial audience as well, suggesting that BHRJ should be an equally attractive platform to publish BHR research both from legal and non-legal perspectives. This being said, many pieces authored by legal scholars take a broader approach to BHR, reaching beyond the bounds of law. Nonetheless, it is evident that there is still much to do in terms of fostering the BHR discourse beyond legal disciplines. BHRJ can and wants to play a key role in this endeavour. Fostering a conversation between academic and non-academic exponents of the field is another goal of BHRJ. In this vein, the top twenty downloads in 2018 and overall contain 25-30 per cent Developments in the Field (DiF) pieces. This may reflect the desire of our audience to keep abreast of key innovations and developments in the policy and practical spaces of this rapidly evolving field. Readership of our published papers is strong. All of the top ten papers received more than 1,000 downloads so far. Four of them received more than 1,000 downloads in 2018 alone (with a fifth one achieving 998 downloads). In addition, the journal has attracted robust social media impact and visibility, which is reflected in strong Altmetric scores of many of our articles. This indicates that the articles published in BHRJ are frequently shared and commented on in social media, suggesting that the journal is contributing to conversations outside of traditional scholarly platforms, e.g., through Twitter. Even as we celebrate and share these achievements with our readers, we also seek to examine the directions in which scholars need to push in order to more fully achieve our mission. To do so, we reached out to our exceptional Editorial Board and DiF Panel to inquire

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Section: The Political Role Of Corporationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Editorial: Business and Human Rights Scholarship: Past Trends and Future Directions

Deva¹,

Ramasastry²,

Santoro³

2019

Bus. and hum. rights j.

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“…A sub‐question is around how firms decide on the division of labor; to what extent they will engage in lobbying themselves, and to what extent they will proceed via third‐party actors (e.g., consultants). The rise of corporate political advocacy (Wettstein & Baur, ) suggests this may become an increasingly urgent question. Finally, this paper addresses the topic of responsible lobbying: Is irresponsible lobbying the binary opposite, or can one conceive of a spectrum?…”

Section: Lobbying On Its Own Terms: a Research Agendamentioning

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“…The rise of corporate political advocacy (Wettstein & Baur, 2016) suggests this may become an increasingly urgent question. Finally, this paper addresses the topic of responsible lobbying: Is irresponsible lobbying the binary opposite, or can one conceive of a spectrum?…”

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“…CPA, by contrast, occurs across the full panoply of environments. An example of this corporate political advocacy, which Wettstein and Baur (, notably pp. 200–203) develop using the case of Ben & Jerry's (and other companies') campaign in favor of same‐sex marriage rights, which included publicity‐generating actions like temporarily renaming an ice‐cream.…”

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Lobbying and the responsible firm: Agenda‐setting for a freshly conceptualized field

Anastasiadis

Moon

Humphreys

2018

Business Ethics: A Eur Rev

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“Responsible lobbying” is an increasingly salient topic within business and management. We make a contribution to the literature on “responsible lobbying” in three ways. First, we provide novel definitions and, thereby, make a clear distinction between lobbying and corporate political activity. We then define responsible lobbying with respect to its content, process, organization, and environment, resulting in a typology of responsible lobbying, a conceptual model that informs the rest of the paper. Second, the paper provides a thematic overview of the current literature underpinning lobbying and the responsible firm, and the underlying paradigms informing this literature. Third, the paper makes specific suggestions for a future research agenda, ending with a consideration of methodological implications of such research.

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“…Whether these activities are irresponsible are up for debate, as there is no consensus on the role corporations allowed to play in politics or in the pursuit of science (cf. Claassen & Gerbrandy, 2018;Hussain & Moriarty, 2018;Wettstein & Baur, 2016). If we want a full and inclusive answer to the question what kind of behaviour of food firms in regard to public health is morally (un)acceptable, the food industry's impact on politics and scientific research should be assessed.…”

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A Janus-faced food industry? : ethical reflections on corporate responsibility for health

Tempels¹

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Chapter 1 I. Understanding the food industry's role in the rise of foodrelated health problems The rise of non-communicable disease and unhealthy diets Over the past forty years the WHO has been ringing the alarm bells to raise awareness and stimulate action to counter the rise of malnutrition and NCDs. NCDs are chronic diseases that can last a long time and are killing over 41 million people a year. While they often occur as a result of genetic, physiological, environmental and behavioural factors, they are strongly associated with an unhealthy lifestyle. In 2011 the then WHO chairman, Margaret Chan, addressed the United Nations stating that: "The worldwide increase of noncommunicable diseases is a slow-motion disaster, as most of these diseases develop over time. But unhealthy lifestyles that fuel these diseases are spreading with a stunning speed and sweep" (Chan, 2011). The notion of an unhealthy lifestyle is directly connected to our food consumption. Unhealthy diets foster high blood pressure, elevated blood lipids as well as obesity. These are metabolic risk factors for NCDs such as type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease (WHO, 2018). Our global food system plays a part in this, in a seemingly contradictory way. On the one hand the system is unable to meet the global demand, leading people to be underfed, while at the same time an increasing number of people are suffering from overweight and obesity (Stuckler et al., 2012; Stuckler & Nestle, 2012). While paradoxical at first glance, overnutrition and undernutrition are different sides of the same coin, namely that of malnutrition. People, especially those living in poverty, frequently have little choice to opt for the healthier food, as the choice might not be available, or when it is, it is too expensive. This leaves society's poor with little choice: either they do not eat, or they opt for cheap high-processed food-that is usually high on salt, sugar and fat (Development Initiatives, 2018; Ratcliffe, 2018; Stuckler & Nestle, 2012). Empirical studies also confirm that that the consumption of unhealthy food products like soft drinks, red meat and ultra-processed foods has increased over the past years (Afshin et al., 2019; Imamura et al., 2015; Micha et al., 2015). Stuckler and colleagues showed how the consumption of unhealthy commodities between 1997 II. Philosophical perspectives on responsibility and food-related health problems On business ethics and corporate responsibility Business ethics aims to articulate and explain the normative principles which can guide right action in business. Since firms and entrepreneurs are involved in many different affairs, the business ethics debate is very broad and focusses on various dimensions that relate to the conduct of business, ranging from the interactions between firms and consumers, between firms and employees, as well as between firms and society as a whole (Moriarty, 2017). General ethical theories like consequentialism, deontology or virtue ethics can be applied to explain how individuals should inter...

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“Why Should We Care about Marriage Equality?”: Political Advocacy as a Part of Corporate Responsibility

Cited by 152 publications

References 62 publications

Editorial: Business and Human Rights Scholarship: Past Trends and Future Directions

Editorial: Business and Human Rights Scholarship: Past Trends and Future Directions

Lobbying and the responsible firm: Agenda‐setting for a freshly conceptualized field

A Janus-faced food industry? : ethical reflections on corporate responsibility for health

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