Purpose – This article aims to contribute to the re-evaluation of the global market system using a Marxist inspired theory of development, dependency. Design/methodology/approach – This article draws on dependency theory as an alternative means of understanding global relationships. Building...

Global development has, in recent years, been shaped by the rise of transnational capital. This has implications for the quality and effectiveness of those national laws, regulations and policies in place to monitor transnational capital, ensure that multi national organisations assume...

Globalisation has led to the establishment of a new hierarchy of leadership. At the helm is the Transnational Capitalist Class (TCC), which oversees the direction of Multi National Corporations (MNCs) at a global level. Can the TCC, as leaders in the governance agenda, drive a global CSR agenda,...

Images of oil-covered seabirds or radioactive fallout from nuclear disasters easily evoke concerns over the risks to personal integrity and environmental degradation. The energy extraction industry, like others, is profit driven; a competitive enterprise, with little regard for the social impact...

The corporate landscape is ever changing. From the idea that the social responsibility of business was solely profit maximisation, toward the approach today, encompassing the inter-relationships of business, state and voluntary sectors through sets of relationships that transcend the nation...

The role of business in society has become an accepted reality of governance today. This book proposes that big business is no longer an equal part in a tertiary leadership of business, government and society but is now the dominant actor. This raises serious questions as to our interpretation...

The “Zero Draft” Treaty on Business and Human Rights was published in July 2018. Similar to earlier manifestations of treaty discussions, this draft places the right of and access to remedy at the center of negotiations. In this way, this treaty follows an analogous pathway to the United...