Michelle Westermann-Behaylo
Biographic Data
| ID | 5243738 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michelle Westermann-Behaylo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michelle |
| FAMILY NAME | Westermann-Behaylo |
| SIGNATURE | WESTERMANN-BEHAYLO M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Geneva |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3632-4424 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
From Critique to Action
Human Rights Due Diligence (HRDD), as outlined by the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs), is constrained by normative foundations that prioritize corporate risk management over meaningful engagement with rightsholders. This paper critiques these foundations, which limit HRDD’s capacity to foster substantive human rights respect and protection. We argue that HRDD, in its current form, fails to sufficiently empower rightshol…
Business Participation in Regulation
This paper conceptualizes how regulation is viewed in management studies in the context of business participation in regulation and explores its implications. We theorize six lenses through which management studies understand regulation: as competitive advantages, boundaries, forums, principles, systems, and cognitive frames. These partly overlapping lenses reveal distinct theoretical approaches to the motivations, strategies, and regulatory outc…
Beyond structural injustice
The COVID‐19 pandemic has exacerbated underlying and pre‐existing social, political, and economic conditions that make their negative effects both more likely and more negative, particularly for workers in global value chains (GVCs). In our conceptual and normative paper, we encourage a rethinking of GVCs and associated strategies of lead firms by integrating justice‐related concerns. We argue that the failure to provide just outcomes for GVC wor…
Fit for addressing grand challenges? A process model for effective accountability relationships within multi‐stakeholder initiatives in developing countries
Business is expected to contribute to grand challenges (GC) such as poverty within their corporate social responsibilities. Multi‐stakeholder initiatives (MSIs) have developed to a popular governance model to address GC. While existing scholarship has discussed the positive and negative aspects of MSIs, we know relatively little about how corporations within MSIs are held accountable. The objective of the study is to analyze the dynamics of accou…
The state of international business, corporate social responsibility, and development
This chapter summarizes key themes and findings from research over the past decades, also considering its geographic foci (developed, developing, and/or emerging countries). Furthermore, noting that scholars are starting to explore the uptake of the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by organizations in practice, frameworks are presented for understanding ways in which business (can) engage with the SDGs, elucidated by a cas…
Business and Human Rights Scholarship in Social Issues in Management
Business and human rights (BHR) scholarship addresses whether corporations have human rights responsibilities and if so, what such responsibilities mean for corporate behaviour. BHR scholarship is cross-disciplinary and scattered across numerous academic disciplines such as law, philosophy, management, political science and accounting. While BHR scholarship in law is well established, this review focuses on BHR scholarship in the social issues in…
Business and Human Rights Scholarship in Social Issues in Management
Business and human rights (BHR) scholarship addresses whether corporations have human rights responsibilities and if so, what such responsibilities mean for corporate behaviour. BHR scholarship is cross-disciplinary and scattered across numerous academic disciplines such as law, philosophy, management, political science and accounting. While BHR scholarship in law is well established, this review focuses on BHR scholarship in the social issues in…
The state of international business, corporate social responsibility, and development
This chapter summarizes key themes and findings from research over the past decades, also considering its geographic foci (developed, developing, and/or emerging countries). Furthermore, noting that scholars are starting to explore the uptake of the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by organizations in practice, frameworks are presented for understanding ways in which business (can) engage with the SDGs, elucidated by a cas…
Business and Human Rights Scholarship in Social Issues in Management
Business and human rights (BHR) scholarship addresses whether corporations have human rights responsibilities and if so, what such responsibilities mean for corporate behaviour. BHR scholarship is cross-disciplinary and scattered across numerous academic disciplines such as law, philosophy, management, political science and accounting. While BHR scholarship in law is well established, this review focuses on BHR scholarship in the social issues in…
Fit for addressing grand challenges? A process model for effective accountability relationships within multi‐stakeholder initiatives in developing countries
Business is expected to contribute to grand challenges (GC) such as poverty within their corporate social responsibilities. Multi‐stakeholder initiatives (MSIs) have developed to a popular governance model to address GC. While existing scholarship has discussed the positive and negative aspects of MSIs, we know relatively little about how corporations within MSIs are held accountable. The objective of the study is to analyze the dynamics of accou…
Beyond structural injustice
The COVID‐19 pandemic has exacerbated underlying and pre‐existing social, political, and economic conditions that make their negative effects both more likely and more negative, particularly for workers in global value chains (GVCs). In our conceptual and normative paper, we encourage a rethinking of GVCs and associated strategies of lead firms by integrating justice‐related concerns. We argue that the failure to provide just outcomes for GVC wor…
Business Participation in Regulation
This paper conceptualizes how regulation is viewed in management studies in the context of business participation in regulation and explores its implications. We theorize six lenses through which management studies understand regulation: as competitive advantages, boundaries, forums, principles, systems, and cognitive frames. These partly overlapping lenses reveal distinct theoretical approaches to the motivations, strategies, and regulatory outc…
From Critique to Action
Human Rights Due Diligence (HRDD), as outlined by the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs), is constrained by normative foundations that prioritize corporate risk management over meaningful engagement with rightsholders. This paper critiques these foundations, which limit HRDD’s capacity to foster substantive human rights respect and protection. We argue that HRDD, in its current form, fails to sufficiently empower rightshol…
Political science (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Corporate governance (3 works) · Corporate social responsibility (3 works) · Innovation and Socioeconomic Development (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Public relations (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting (2 works) · Human rights (2 works)