Bringing Political Context Back into International Business Studies of Human Rights
回应了增加国际商务人权研究的呼吁，强调未来研究应重视政治背景，避免将焦点从国家转向企业而忽视复杂性，并从政治企业社会责任文献中汲取洞见。
In this article, we respond to Giuliani, Santangelo, and Wettstein’s (2016) call formore international business (IB) research on the theme of human rights (HR).While we surely agree with the need for increasing research on the topic, we arguethat future research should emphasize and elaborate on the role of political context. Moving the spotlight from states to companies as HR violators runs the risk of undermining the contextual complexities where violations take place. Companies are deeply embedded in their interaction with a variety of different stakeholders, including public sector and civil society organizations as well as other firms. We see that HR scholars can gain insights from the blooming literature of political corporate social responsibility (CSR) to bring back political context (Frynas &Stephens, 2015; Mäkinen & Kourula, 2012; Scherer & Palazzo, 2011; Scherer,Rasche, Palazzo, & Spicer, 2016; Schremp-Stirling, 2016). HR research can be seen as a more empirically driven project and thus a political theory grounding can offer a solid foundation for this important stream of scholarship.