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Saschadominik Bachmann - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the un norms on the responsibility of transnational corporations and other Business Enterprises with regard to human rights a requiem
Deakin Law Review, 2012Co-Authors: Pini Pavel Miretski, Saschadominik BachmannAbstract:On 11 June 2011, the United Nations Human Rights Council endorsed the ‘Guiding Principles for Business and Human Rights’ as a new set of guiding principles for global Business designed to provide a global standard for preventing and addressing the risk of adverse impacts on human rights linked to Business activity. This outcome was preceded by an earlier unsuccessful attempt by a Sub-Commission of the UN Commission on Human Rights to win approval for a set of binding corporate human rights norms, the so called ‘Norms on the Responsibilities of Transnational Corporations and Other Business Enterprises with Regard to Human Rights’. This article identifies and discusses the reasons why the Norms eventually failed to win approval by the then UN Commission on Human Rights. This discussion assists an understanding of the difficulties in establishing binding ‘hard law’ obligations for transnational corporations with regard to human rights within the wider framework of international law. It elucidates the possible motives as well as the underlying rationale which led first to the adoption and then the rapid abandoning of the Norms. The discussion also sheds light on the future of the voluntarism of Business human rights compliance, on the likelihood of finding alternative solutions, and finally on the rationale for, and effect of, the ‘Guiding Principles for Business and Human Rights’.
F W Dulle - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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provision of Business information services by public libraries to small scale Business Enterprises
Mousaion: South African Journal of Information Studies, 2018Co-Authors: Paul Maku Gichohi, Omwoyo Bosire Onyancha, F W DulleAbstract:This study explored the Business information services offered to small-scale Business Enterprises (SBEs) by public libraries in Meru County, Kenya. Public libraries are community information centres, hence well-placed to serve the small-scale Business community. A quantitative approach and survey research design were adopted. Data were collected from 296 SBE traders and 20 staff members from three public libraries in Meru County using well-structured questionnaires and interviews. Quantitative data were analysed with the help of SPSS software while a thematic analysis was used on qualitative data. The provision of Business information services to SBEs in public libraries was in a desolate state owing to inadequate Business collections, the lack of sufficient information and communications technology (ICT) facilities, poor awareness of Business information services, a poor reading culture, and weak collaborations of public libraries with stakeholders. There is an indispensable need to establish insightful and holistic Business information services at public libraries and to institute measures that would foster their utilisation by SBEs. This can be achieved by elevating library facilities, enhancing outreach programmes, ensuring adequate funding, engaging knowledgeable Business services librarians, embracing ICT in service delivery, and by having an appropriate policy framework.
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a model for public libraries support in the development of small scale Business Enterprises in meru county kenya
Public Library Quarterly, 2018Co-Authors: Paul Maku Gichohi, Omwoyo Bosire Onyancha, F W DulleAbstract:ABSTRACTThis study aims at developing a suitable model for support by public libraries in the development of small-scale Business Enterprises (SBEs) in Meru County, Kenya. A mixed-methods research approach and survey research design were applied. We collected data from small-scale Business traders, staff members from the three public libraries, and two staff members in charge of the Enterprise Development Department in Meru County by means of questionnaires and interviews, and applied document analysis on written sources held by these entities. We developed a model that can be adopted and is highly recommended to public libraries in supporting small Enterprises in Kenya.
Pini Pavel Miretski - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the un norms on the responsibility of transnational corporations and other Business Enterprises with regard to human rights a requiem
Deakin Law Review, 2012Co-Authors: Pini Pavel Miretski, Saschadominik BachmannAbstract:On 11 June 2011, the United Nations Human Rights Council endorsed the ‘Guiding Principles for Business and Human Rights’ as a new set of guiding principles for global Business designed to provide a global standard for preventing and addressing the risk of adverse impacts on human rights linked to Business activity. This outcome was preceded by an earlier unsuccessful attempt by a Sub-Commission of the UN Commission on Human Rights to win approval for a set of binding corporate human rights norms, the so called ‘Norms on the Responsibilities of Transnational Corporations and Other Business Enterprises with Regard to Human Rights’. This article identifies and discusses the reasons why the Norms eventually failed to win approval by the then UN Commission on Human Rights. This discussion assists an understanding of the difficulties in establishing binding ‘hard law’ obligations for transnational corporations with regard to human rights within the wider framework of international law. It elucidates the possible motives as well as the underlying rationale which led first to the adoption and then the rapid abandoning of the Norms. The discussion also sheds light on the future of the voluntarism of Business human rights compliance, on the likelihood of finding alternative solutions, and finally on the rationale for, and effect of, the ‘Guiding Principles for Business and Human Rights’.
Paul Maku Gichohi - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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provision of Business information services by public libraries to small scale Business Enterprises
Mousaion: South African Journal of Information Studies, 2018Co-Authors: Paul Maku Gichohi, Omwoyo Bosire Onyancha, F W DulleAbstract:This study explored the Business information services offered to small-scale Business Enterprises (SBEs) by public libraries in Meru County, Kenya. Public libraries are community information centres, hence well-placed to serve the small-scale Business community. A quantitative approach and survey research design were adopted. Data were collected from 296 SBE traders and 20 staff members from three public libraries in Meru County using well-structured questionnaires and interviews. Quantitative data were analysed with the help of SPSS software while a thematic analysis was used on qualitative data. The provision of Business information services to SBEs in public libraries was in a desolate state owing to inadequate Business collections, the lack of sufficient information and communications technology (ICT) facilities, poor awareness of Business information services, a poor reading culture, and weak collaborations of public libraries with stakeholders. There is an indispensable need to establish insightful and holistic Business information services at public libraries and to institute measures that would foster their utilisation by SBEs. This can be achieved by elevating library facilities, enhancing outreach programmes, ensuring adequate funding, engaging knowledgeable Business services librarians, embracing ICT in service delivery, and by having an appropriate policy framework.
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a model for public libraries support in the development of small scale Business Enterprises in meru county kenya
Public Library Quarterly, 2018Co-Authors: Paul Maku Gichohi, Omwoyo Bosire Onyancha, F W DulleAbstract:ABSTRACTThis study aims at developing a suitable model for support by public libraries in the development of small-scale Business Enterprises (SBEs) in Meru County, Kenya. A mixed-methods research approach and survey research design were applied. We collected data from small-scale Business traders, staff members from the three public libraries, and two staff members in charge of the Enterprise Development Department in Meru County by means of questionnaires and interviews, and applied document analysis on written sources held by these entities. We developed a model that can be adopted and is highly recommended to public libraries in supporting small Enterprises in Kenya.
T C E Cheng - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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quality disclosure strategies for small Business Enterprises in a competitive marketplace
European Journal of Operational Research, 2018Co-Authors: Ming Zhao, Ciwei Dong, T C E ChengAbstract:Abstract In this paper, we use a game-theoretic approach to investigate quality disclosure strategies for small Business Enterprises (SBEs). There are two SBEs with heterogeneous product quality competing in a competitive marketplace. In the first stage of the game, each SBE decides whether to disclose its quality information to customers through the retailer. In the second stage of the game, depending on the quality disclosure strategies chosen, the SBEs decide the selling prices, or they decide the wholesale prices and the retailer decides the selling prices. We derive the optimal disclosure and pricing strategies for the SBEs. We show that in equilibrium the high-quality SBE may choose not to disclose its quality and the low-quality SBE may choose to disclose its quality to customers through the retailer, which depends on the customers’ common prior belief regarding the quality of the product in the market. Besides, the high-quality SBE has a higher selling price and will obtain a higher profit than the low-quality SBE, even for the case where the customers only know the true quality of one SBE. However, when only one SBE discloses its quality to customers, the selling price of the high-quality product with disclosed quality information may be lower than that without quality information, due to the competition and information discourse mechanism. Moreover, we derive the results on how the optimal selling prices, wholesale prices, retailer’s profit and SBEs’ profits change when the customers’ common prior belief changes, and generate managerial insights of the research findings.
