Transforming Business

Aligning Profits with Human Rights
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-032-79631-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Societal expectations of business have shifted significantly in recent decades. While shareholder value remains a central driver of corporate decision-making, companies now face growing demands to account for how they generate profit — demands that are increasingly backed by law. This book argues that the most effective response is not procedural compliance but genuine business model transformation: embedding respect for human rights into the architecture of how companies operate, not as an add-on but as a way of doing business.

Drawing on original field research across the extractive, agricultural, and apparel sectors, the book documents six companies that have done exactly that — generating tangible, positive outcomes for workers and communities while sustaining commercial success. Each case is examined in depth, including its strengths, limitations, and the barriers encountered along the way. Concluding chapters distil five core components of business model transformation and explore how they can be measured and replicated at scale.

Written for a broad audience, including business executives and sustainability professionals seeking evidence-based models for implementing human rights due diligence, lawyers and independent consultants advising companies on responsible business conduct, policymakers and regulators shaping the frameworks within which business operates, and students and researchers engaging with business and human rights as both a field and a practical strategy, this book provides the proof of concept that aligning profits and principles is not only desirable but achievable.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional Practice & Development, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Baumann-Pauly, Dorothée

Nolan, Justine

Symington, Andy

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmensorganisation, Corporate Responsibility Unternehmensethik
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Nachhaltigkeit
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Primärer Sektor
• Rechtswissenschaften Wirtschaftsrecht
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Einkauf, Logistik, Supply-Chain-Management

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Advancing Human Rights Through Business 2. Sourcing Sustainable Rubber: Veja’s Business Model To Help Save The Amazon 3. Resetting The Diamond Supply Chain: Hb Antwerp’s Model Of Radical Transparency In Botswana 4. Tony’s Open Chain: Transforming The Cocoa Sector From Within 5. From Extraction To Equity: Indigenous Agreement-Making In Lithium Mining 6. Threads Of Justice: How The Dindigul Agreement Is Weaving Worker Empowerment Into Fashion 7. Transforming Informality: Formalisation As A Human Rights Strategy In Artisanal And Small-Scale Cobalt Mining 8. Transformation Formula: Core Components For Changing Business Models 9. Reverse Engineering Human Rights Due Diligence: Aligning Policy And Practice 10. Future-Proofing Business And Human Rights

Über Autor(innen)

Dorothée Baumann-Pauly is the Director of the Geneva Center for Business and Human Rights and a Professor at the Geneva School of Economics and Management at the University of Geneva. She is also the Research Director at the NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights.

Justine Nolan is the Director of the Australian Human Rights Institute and a Professor in the Faculty of Law and Justice at UNSW Sydney, Australia.

Andy Symington is a business and human rights specialist focused on social performance, human rights and just transition in the mining industry and in renewable energy supply chains.