Corporate social responsibility and the grammar of human rights

corporate governance
business and human rights
Social & Legal Studies, 28(5), 625–649
Author

Ciarán O’Kelly

Published

January 10, 2019

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This paper explores the language of corporate accounts of business and human rights. Using innovative methods drawn from computational corpus linguistics, the paper explores discussions of business and human rights in a dataset composed of 346 corporate social responsibility reports drawn from firms in extractive industries. The paper concludes that human rights are ‘put to work’ in corporate accounts by reconfiguring their meaning to draw them into the ‘familiar frames’ of business accounting narratives.

Citation

BibTeX citation:
@article{o'kelly2019,
  author = {O’Kelly, Ciarán},
  title = {Corporate Social Responsibility and the Grammar of Human
    Rights},
  journal = {Social \& Legal Studies},
  volume = {28},
  number = {5},
  pages = {625–649},
  date = {2019-01-10},
  url = {https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0964663918819400},
  langid = {en}
}
For attribution, please cite this work as:
O’Kelly, Ciarán. 2019. “Corporate Social Responsibility and the Grammar of Human Rights.” Social & Legal Studies 28 (5): 625–49. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0964663918819400.