Responsible Enterprise

The author relates these processes to fundamental considerations on the conception of enterprise, the justification and scope of enterprise responsibility and public-private governance. She reveals that the informalization of norm-creation and its transfer to the executive and private actors raises fundamental questions of national sovereignty, democratic legitimation and rule of law. A new conception of ‘law’ is also required. The book links theory and practice and focuses, inter alia, on the following issues: Fundamentals of the CSR discussion CSR conceptions of the United Nations, the OECD, ISO, the EU and their interplay with national legal structures Sector-specific CSR-conceptions (mining, finance, textile,legal profession) New conceptions of enterprise and group responsibility Transnational public-private governance and innovative norm creation The new CSR world order – a ‘legal internet’?