Karin Buhmann

Copenhagen Business School (CBS) - CBS Centre for CSR; Dpt of Management, Society and Communication

Professor with special responsibilities for Business and Human Rights

Solbjerg Plads 3

Frederiksberg C, DK - 2000

Denmark

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  • Copenhagen Business School (CBS) - CBS Centre for CSR; Dpt of Management, Society and Communication

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Reflexive Regulation of CSR to Promote Sustainability: Understanding EU Public-Private Regulation on CSR Through the Case of Human Rights

International and Comparative Corporate Law Journal, Forthcoming, University of Oslo Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 2010-07
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 23 Nov 2010
Karin Buhmann
Copenhagen Business School (CBS) - CBS Centre for CSR; Dpt of Management, Society and Communication
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Sustainable development, sustainable companies, reflexive regulation, climate change, CSR, EU law, public-private regulation, companies' self-regulation

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The Danish CSR Reporting Requirement: Migration of CSR-Related International Norms into Companies' Self-Reglation through Company Law?

European Company Law, Vol. 8, No. 2-3, pp 65-73, 2011, University of Oslo Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 2011-05
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 04 Mar 2011 Last Revised: 10 Aug 2011
Karin Buhmann
Copenhagen Business School (CBS) - CBS Centre for CSR; Dpt of Management, Society and Communication
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CSR reporting, Danish accounting act, Global Compact, reflexive law

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Business and Human Rights: Understanding the UN Guiding Principles from the Perspective of Transnational Business Governance Interactions

Osgoode Legal Studies Research Paper No. 20/2014
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 16 Apr 2014 Last Revised: 18 Jul 2019
Karin Buhmann
Copenhagen Business School (CBS) - CBS Centre for CSR; Dpt of Management, Society and Communication
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UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (2011); TBGI analytical framework; transnational law; OECD’s Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises; orchestrating responsible business conduct

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The Danish CSR Reporting Requirement as Reflexive Law: Employing CSR as a Modality to Promote Public Policy

University of Oslo Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 2011-36
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 24 Nov 2011
Karin Buhmann
Copenhagen Business School (CBS) - CBS Centre for CSR; Dpt of Management, Society and Communication
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Juridifying Corporate Social Responsibility Through Public Law: Assessing Coherence and Inconsistencies Against UN Guidance on Business & Human Rights

International and Comparative Corporate Law Journal, Vol. 11, No. 3, 2015
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 20 Dec 2015
Karin Buhmann
Copenhagen Business School (CBS) - CBS Centre for CSR; Dpt of Management, Society and Communication
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Corporate Social Responsibility; Corporate law and governance; transnational law; mixed forms of law and governance; non-financial accounting; Human Rights & Business; sustainability research; legal research; global governance

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Public Regulators and CSR: The ‘Social Licence to Operate’ in Recent United Nations Instruments on Business and Human Rights and the Juridification of CSR

Journal of Business Ethics, Forthcoming, TLI Think! Paper 01/2016
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 20 Dec 2015 Last Revised: 19 Jan 2016
Karin Buhmann
Copenhagen Business School (CBS) - CBS Centre for CSR; Dpt of Management, Society and Communication
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Social Licence to Operate; Corporate Social Responsibility; Human Rights & Business; public-private regulation and mixed forms of law; transnational law; non-financial reporting; sustainability research; legal research

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Balancing Business Interests with Government Interests in CSR: Government Rationality as an Explanation for Denmark's Introduction of Mandatory CSR Reporting

Chapter for 'The Balanced Company: Organizing for the 21 Century' (eds. Inger Jensen, John Damm Scheuer, Jacob Dahl Rendtorff), Gower Publishing, 2013
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 24 Nov 2013
Karin Buhmann
Copenhagen Business School (CBS) - CBS Centre for CSR; Dpt of Management, Society and Communication
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Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR); mandatory CSR reporting; government rationalitiy; 'Government case for CSR'; self-regulation; regulatory strategy

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The Lundbeck Case of Pentobarbital, the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, and Competing Human Rights Responsibilities

Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 02 Apr 2012
Karin Buhmann
Copenhagen Business School (CBS) - CBS Centre for CSR; Dpt of Management, Society and Communication
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Corporate Social Responsibility, UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, access to medicine, corporate complicity in human rights violations, Lundbeck pharmaceutical company

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Taxation, General Anti-Avoidance Rules and Corporate Social Responsibility

Copenhagen Business School, CBS LAW Research Paper No. 19-15
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 18 Mar 2019 Last Revised: 22 Mar 2019
Peter Koerver Schmidt and Karin Buhmann
Copenhagen Business School - CBS Law and Copenhagen Business School (CBS) - CBS Centre for CSR; Dpt of Management, Society and Communication
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Taxation, aggressive tax planning, general anti-avoidance rules, corporate social responsibility

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From 'Do No Harm' to Doing More Good: Extending the UN Framework to Connect Political CSR with Business Responsibilities for Human Rights

CBDS Working Paper Series Working Paper Nr. 26, 2016
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 04 May 2017 Last Revised: 31 May 2017
Jonas Jonsson, Mette Fisker and Karin Buhmann
Copenhagen Business School, Students, Copenhagen Business School, Students and Copenhagen Business School (CBS) - CBS Centre for CSR; Dpt of Management, Society and Communication
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Due Diligence, Human Rights, Leverage, Moral Legitimacy, Political CSR, UN Framework

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Mapping of Danish Law Related to Companies' Impact on Environment and Climate Change

Nordic & European Company Law Working Paper No. 10-36
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 29 Apr 2013 Last Revised: 02 Sep 2015
Karin Buhmann, Kim Østergaard, Rasmus Kristian Feldthusen, Helle Anker, Franz Amdi Hansen and Karsten Engsig Sørensen
Copenhagen Business School (CBS) - CBS Centre for CSR; Dpt of Management, Society and Communication, Copenhagen Business School - CBS Law, University of Copenhagen - Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen - Department of Food and Resource Economics, University of Copenhagen - Faculty of Law and Aarhus University – Aarhus BSS, Department of Law
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Corporate social responsibility, company conduct, sustainable development, environment and climate change

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Do No Harm and Do More Good Too: Connecting Business and Human Rights with Political CSR to Identify Business Opportunities for Contributing to the SDGs

Forthcoming, Corporate Governance: The International Journal of Business in Society, DOI: 10.1108/CG-01-2018-0030
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 23 May 2019
Karin Buhmann, Jonas Jonsson and Mette Fisker
Copenhagen Business School (CBS) - CBS Centre for CSR; Dpt of Management, Society and Communication, Copenhagen Business School, Students and Copenhagen Business School, Students
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Human Rights, Impact Assessment, Leverage, Moral Legitimacy, Political CSR, Risk-Based Due Diligence, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

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Neglecting the Proactive Aspect of Human Rights Due Diligence? A Critical Appraisal of the EU's Non-Financial Reporting Directive as a Pillar One Avenue for Promoting Pillar Two Action

Business and Human Rights Journal, Vol 3, Issue 1, University of Oslo Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 2017-34
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 25 Oct 2017 Last Revised: 17 Nov 2017
Karin Buhmann
Copenhagen Business School (CBS) - CBS Centre for CSR; Dpt of Management, Society and Communication
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The ‘UN Framework’ ‘Protect, Respect, Remedy’: Explaining the Consensus-Based Construction of Business Responsibilities for Human Rights

International Law Research, Vol.1, No. 1 (2012)
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 27 Nov 2012
Karin Buhmann
Copenhagen Business School (CBS) - CBS Centre for CSR; Dpt of Management, Society and Communication
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Business and human rights, CSR normativity, discourse analysis, public-private regulation, UN-Framework on business and human rights, UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Business and Human Rights (SRSG John Ruggie)

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Navigating from ‘Trainwreck’ to Being ‘Welcomed’: Negotiation Strategies and Argumentative Patterns in the Development of the UN Framework

Surya Deva and David Bilchitz (eds.) Human Rights Obligations of Business: Beyond the Corporate Responsibility to Respect?, Cambridge University Press (2013)
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 24 Nov 2013
Karin Buhmann
Copenhagen Business School (CBS) - CBS Centre for CSR; Dpt of Management, Society and Communication
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international law-making; Business and Human Rights; UN Framework; reflexive law; discourse theory

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Business and Human Rights: Connecting the Managerial and Legal Aspects

Pat M Flynn et al (eds) Redefining Success: Integrating Sustainability into Management Education, Greenleaf publishing (2017)
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 17 Jul 2017
Karin Buhmann
Copenhagen Business School (CBS) - CBS Centre for CSR; Dpt of Management, Society and Communication
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Business and Human Rights, teaching sustainability to to management students and managers, supply chain management, corporate human rights violations, risk-based due diligence

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Chinese Human Rights Guidance on Minerals Sourcing: Building Soft Power

(Forthcoming) Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, Vol 46, No 2, 2017
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 11 Sep 2017 Last Revised: 17 Nov 2017
Karin Buhmann
Copenhagen Business School (CBS) - CBS Centre for CSR; Dpt of Management, Society and Communication
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Business impact on human rights, Chinese human rights policies, conflict minerals, Corporate Social Responsibility, minerals sector investment and sourcing, risk-based due diligence, soft power

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Towards Legitimacy in Above-National Rule-Making: Proceduralisation in Multi-Stakeholder Public Regulation

‘Law & Legitimacy’ (eds. Per Andersen and Bjarke Viskum), Copenhagen: DJØF Publishing, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 30 Sep 2014
Karin Buhmann
Copenhagen Business School (CBS) - CBS Centre for CSR; Dpt of Management, Society and Communication
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legitimacy, participation in rule-making, multi-stakeholder rule-making, the role of private non-state actors in international law, deliberation, power disparities, proceduralisation, global regulation, reflexive law

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Corporate Social Responsibility – What Role for Law? Some Legal Aspects of CSR

Corporate Governance – The International Journal of Business in Society, Vol. 6, No. 2, 2006, pp. 188-202
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 23 May 2019
Karin Buhmann
Copenhagen Business School (CBS) - CBS Centre for CSR; Dpt of Management, Society and Communication
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CSR, Human Rights Obligations, Informal Law, International Law, Regulation, Non-Financial Reporting

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Introducing Legal Method When Teaching Stakeholder Theory: Enhancing the Understanding of Stakeholder Expectations in Relation to Human Rights and CSR Reporting

Journal of Business Ethics Education, Volume 12, pp. 4-42, 2015
Posted: 20 Dec 2015
Karin Buhmann
Copenhagen Business School (CBS) - CBS Centre for CSR; Dpt of Management, Society and Communication

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Business Ethics; Business & Human Rights; Corporate Social Responsibility; philosophy of law/jurisprudence/legal method; non-financial accounting and disclosure; public-private regulation; public policy and the private sector; stakeholder theory/stakeholder analysis

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Business and Human Rights: Analysing Discursive Articulation of Stakeholder Interests to Explain the Consensus-Based Construction of the 'Protect, Respect, Remedy' UN Framework

Buhmann, Karin (2012) Business and Human Rights: Analysing Discursive Articulation of Stakeholder Interests to Explain the Consensus-Based Construction of the ‘Protect, Respect, Remedy' UN Framework. International Law Research Vol. 1: 88-101
Posted: 05 Dec 2012
Karin Buhmann
Copenhagen Business School (CBS) - CBS Centre for CSR; Dpt of Management, Society and Communication

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business and human rights, CSR normativity, discourse analysis, public-private regulation