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4 - Defragmenting Transnational Business Responsibility

Principles and Process

from Part I - Global Business and Fragmented Regulation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 November 2019

Beate Sjåfjell
Affiliation:
Universitetet i Oslo
Christopher M. Bruner
Affiliation:
University of Georgia
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This chapter analyses access to remedies and the efficacy of enforcement mechanisms for corporate sustainability norms at domestic and international levels. It argues that meaningful discussion of remedies and their enforcement must centre on affected communities rather than corporations. Achieving full compliance with sustainability norms already poses enormous challenges, and jurisdictional fragmentation is recognised as a particularly formidable obstacle in the context of developing effective, enforceable remedies. In analysing the barriers faced, a taxonomy using two dimensions – hard law versus soft law, and victim-driven versus external-actor-driven – is presented. Principles for community-centred remedies and enforcement are proposed. They include legal empowerment of affected communities and procedures grounded in international standards. Innovatively, these procedures and remedies are envisioned as forward-looking as well as remedial, and flexible but underpinned by strong incentives for business participation. Effective community-centred remedies are also envisaged as holistic and collaborative, rather than splitting victims into atomised groups.

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Print publication year: 2019

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