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Corporate Law and Human Rights

Corporate Law and Human Rights is a research topic within Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management. Science Explorer counts 12k research works in it since 1950. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the obligations and responsibilities of multinational corporations and other business entities with regard to human rights. It explores topics such as corporate liability for human rights violations, the role of international law in holding corporations accountable, and the development of frameworks and guidelines for corporate responsibility. The cluster also delves into the challenges and opportunities in enforcing human rights standards on transnational corporations.

  • Corporate
  • Human Rights
  • Multinational Enterprises
  • Liability
  • Transnational Corporations
  • Business
  • International Law
  • Accountability
  • OECD Guidelines
  • Legal Responsibility
Research works
12k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-5%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
25% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Corporate Law and Human Rights

Which countries lead Corporate Law and Human Rights research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (344 and 210 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 344 works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 210 works
  3. 3 China 174 works
  4. 4 Germany 152 works
  5. 5 Indonesia 99 works
  6. 6 India 86 works
  7. 7 France 84 works
  8. 8 Netherlands 81 works
  9. 9 Australia 75 works
  10. 10 Italy 73 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

United States: 25.0%United Kingdom: 15.3%China: 12.6%Germany: 11.0%6 others listed: 36.1%25%largest
United States344 · 25.0%United Kingdom210 · 15.3%China174 · 12.6%Germany152 · 11.0%6 others listed498 · 36.1%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Corporate Law and Human Rights research?

By volume in 2022-now, University of St.Gallen publishes the most Corporate Law and Human Rights research, followed by Tulane University and Shanghai Maritime University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 University of St.GallenSwitzerland 24 works
  2. 2 Tulane UniversityUnited States 23 works
  3. 3 Shanghai Maritime UniversityChina 21 works
  4. 4 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 17 works
  5. 5 King's College LondonUnited Kingdom 17 works
  6. 6 Tilburg UniversityNetherlands 15 works
  7. 7 University of MichiganUnited States 14 works
  8. 8 Copenhagen Business SchoolDenmark 14 works
  9. 9 The Supreme People's Procuratorate of the People's Republic of ChinaChina 13 works
  10. 10 Leiden UniversityNetherlands 13 works

Who are the leading researchers in Corporate Law and Human Rights?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Corporate Law and Human Rights include David F. Larcker, Herbert A. Simon and Joseph E. Stiglitz.

  1. 1 David F. Larcker United States 197k citations
  2. 2 Herbert A. Simon United States 179k citations
  3. 3 Joseph E. Stiglitz United States 167k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Corporate Law and Human Rights?

The most cited paper in Corporate Law and Human Rights is "The Stakeholder Theory of the Corporation: Concepts, Evidence, and Implications" (Thomas J. Donaldson, Lee E. Preston, 1995), with 9,229 citations. Next come "The New Political Role of Business in a Globalized World: A Review of a New Perspective on CSR and its Implications for the Firm, Governance, and Democracy" (2,123) and "Managerial Power and Rent Extraction in the Design of Executive Compensation" (1,488).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The Stakeholder Theory of the Corporation: Concepts, Evidence, and Implications Thomas J. Donaldson, Lee E. Preston · Academy of Management Review 1995 9,229
2 The New Political Role of Business in a Globalized World: A Review of a New Perspective on CSR and its Implications for the Firm, Governance, and Democracy Andreas Georg Scherer, Guido Palazzo · Journal of Management Studies Open access May 2010 2,123
3 Managerial Power and Rent Extraction in the Design of Executive Compensation Lucian A. Bebchuk, Jesse M. Fried, David I. Walker · The University of Chicago Law Review 2002 1,488
4 The Emergence of Global Administrative Law Benedict Kingsbury, Nico Krisch, Richard B. Stewart · SSRN Electronic Journal PreprintOpen access 2005 1,088
5 The End of History for Corporate Law Henry B. Hansmann, Reinier H. Kraakman · SSRN Electronic Journal PreprintOpen access 2000 745
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Where is Corporate Law and Human Rights research done?

The largest centres of Corporate Law and Human Rights research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), Beijing (China), New York (United States) and Shanghai (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in St. Gallen and New Orleans.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 71 works
  2. 2 BeijingChina 41 works
  3. 3 New YorkUnited States 36 works
  4. 4 ShanghaiChina 35 works
  5. 5 Washington D.C.United States 29 works
  6. 6 MoscowRussia 28 works
  7. 7 ParisFrance 28 works
  8. 8 New OrleansUnited States 27 works
  9. 9 MelbourneAustralia 24 works
  10. 10 St. GallenSwitzerland 24 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. St. GallenCH · 23.8 works70×
  2. New OrleansUS · 26.7 works24×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Corporate Law and Human Rights than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Corporate Law and Human Rights?

Among universities, judged by research, Tilburg University, University of Amsterdam and Leiden University score highest, combining citation excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%10%20%mean 9.88%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Leiden UniversityTilburg UniversityUniversity of Amster…University of St.Gal…
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Citation excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Tilburg UniversityNetherlands 70.520.2%45.8×15 +6.3%
2University of AmsterdamNetherlands 68.518.4%8.4×10 +52.6%
3Leiden UniversityNetherlands 67.620.6%11.6×12 +58.1%
4University of St.GallenSwitzerland 63.10.5%117.3×24 +822.6%
5King's College LondonUnited Kingdom 54.82.8%10.0×17 +39.1%
6University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 51.113.4%4.3×12 +20.8%
7Tulane UniversityUnited States 50.70.0%46.0×23 +31.6%
8University of MichiganUnited States 48.611.6%4.6×14 +18.4%
9Shanghai Maritime UniversityChina 46.70.0%43.9×21 +46.6%
10University of ViennaAustria 45.911.3%9.0×9 +7.2%

Universities only. The score blends citation excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Corporate Law and Human Rights, country by country

Is Corporate Law and Human Rights research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 5% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Corporate Law and Human Rights as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0089% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%0.015%Corporate Law and Human Rights0.010% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Corporate Law and Human Rights over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Corporate Law and Human Rights10.2% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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