Certifying Private Security Companies
Effectively Ensuring the Corporate Responsibility to Respect Human Rights
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13019385 |
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| Authors | Sandy Macleod (0000-0002-1117-0430, corresponding author), Rebecca DeWinter-Schmitt (0000-0003-2915-8322) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 55-77 |
| Publication date | 2019-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Business and Human Rights Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2057-0198 • E-ISSN: 2057-0201 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/bhj.2018.25 |
| OpenAlex | W2912091899 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 17 |
The key purpose of this article is to critically assess the extent to which auditing and certification to quality assurance and risk management standards containing human rights-related requirements are an adequate and effective means of ensuring that private security companies internalize their responsibility to respect human rights. Based on participant observation, interviews and publicly accessible data, it concludes that in the absence of the adoption of specific assurance measures in the certification and oversight processes, the constructivist ‘tipping point’ resulting in the internalization of the corporate responsibility to respect may not be attained when there is inadequate norm compliance or, worse yet, norm regression
Audit · Business · Certification · Compliance (psychology · Corporate social responsibility · Human rights · Norm (philosophy · Political science · Public relations · Quality assurance · Corporate Law and Human Rights · Law · Occupational Health and Safety Research · Psychology · Regulation and Compliance Studies · Accounting · Marketing
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The Persistent Power of Human Rights
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Human Rights Due Diligence as Risk Management
The Regulatory Power of Business Norms
Lost in translation
Multinational Enterprises as “Social Actors”—Constructivist Explanations for Corporate Social Responsibility
Hegel's House, or ‘People are states too’
The Constructive Turn in International Relations Theory
International Norm Dynamics and Political Change
(Self) Regulating War
Social Norms and Social Roles
| Highly cited | No |
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