Bridging the great divide? Making sense of the human rights-CSR relationship in UK multinational companies

Human rights (HR) and corporate social responsibility (CSR) are both fields of knowledge and research that have been shaped by, and examine, the role of multi-national enterprises in society. Whilst scholars have highlighted the overlapping nature of CSR and HR, our understanding of this relationship within business practice remains vague and under-researched. To explore the interface between CSR and HR, this paper presents empirical data from a qualitative study involving 22 international businesses based in the UK. Through an analysis based on sensemaking, the paper examines how and where CSR and HR overlap, contrast and shape one another, and the role that companies’ international operations has on this relationship. The findings reveal a complex and multi-layered relationship between the two, and concludes that in contrast to management theory, companies have bridged the ‘great divide’ in varying degrees most notably in their implementation strategies

Additional file 9: Figure S3. of In vitro characterization of neurite extension using induced pluripotent stem cells derived from lissencephaly patients with TUBA1A missense mutations

Differentiating pPBCAG-TUBA1A-IRES-AcGFP-transfected human NPCs. Measurements of AcGFP-positive neurites from each cell (μm: mean ± SEM, n = 50, one-way ANOVA followed by Dunnett’s test, **p < 0.01). Overexpression of mutant TUBA1A (p.N329S) interfered with neurite extension in the human NSCs (scale bar = 200 μm). (TIF 19759 kb