Sustainable Development in Emerging Markets & CSR Codes of Conduct: Oil and Gas Industry in Brazil
Ligia Maura Costa
FGV-EAESP
Journal of Operations and
Supply Chain Management, pp. 44-66, December 2012
Abstract:
This paper intends to provide
a comparative analysis of corporate social responsibility codes of conduct (CSR
Codes) of the oil and gas industry operating in Brazil with the provisions
embodied in the international legal framework system, such as the United
Nations Declaration of Human Rights and the Fundamental Conventions of the
International Labour Organization. For comparative purposes, and given the usual
structure that CSR Codes tend to follow, the analysis has been developed around
the three most emphasized issues – namely, labor and human rights, environment
and socio-economic issues – which in turn have been divided into common
subcategories of CSR Codes. One can argue that if CSR Codes are actually based
on the new international sustainable development law, which may be used to
verify CSR Codes’ compliance and enforcement, CSR Codes can be seen as a «global
commons» understanding framework to improve sustainable development operations
in emerging markets such as Brazil.
Number of Pages in PDF File: 23
Keywords: CSR, Oil and
Gas Industry, Sustainable Development Law, Human Rights, Environment,
Socio-Economic Issues
