Corporate Social Responsibility and Worker Rights: Institutionalizing Social Dialogue Through International Framework Agreements

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Lévesque, Christian
Hennebert, Marc-Antonin
Murray, Gregor
Bourque, Reynald
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2018
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International framework agreements (IFAs) represent a new generation of transnational agreements between multinational companies and global trade union federations. This paper analyzes the impact of such an agreement on a successful union organizing campaign in Colombia in 2012. We argue that management strategies towards corporate social responsibility and social dialogue influence the impact of IFAs on worker rights. However, this relationship is mediated by the capacity of managers and worker representatives at multiple levels to mobilize their capabilities. The results highlight the importance of institutionalized dialogue between managers and worker representatives, of the dissemination of capabilities across multilevel coordination structures and, most importantly, of their complementarities at various levels.

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Journal of Business Ethics

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153

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1

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Business and Management

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Lévesque, C; Hennebert, M-A; Murray, G; Bourque, R, Corporate Social Responsibility and Worker Rights: Institutionalizing Social Dialogue Through International Framework Agreements, Journal of Business Ethics, 2018, 153 (1), pp. 215-230

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