A empresa exercida pelas sociedades anônimas e a concretude de direitos humanos na pós-modernidade

Abstract

This study aims to investigate how relevant is corporations on concreteness of human rights in postmodernity. The focus on entreprise carried out by company joint-stock is justified by its prominence as modern and postmodern capitalism agent. It is from that kind of companies that are issued shares which creates capital markets, which have deepened economic globalization after the collapse of the Soviet bloc. The problem presented is how those companies with economic interests in several parts of the globe may be indispensable allies in the global challenge of realizing human rights, when curtailed as national sovereignties. The enforcement of human rights, moreover, is an irrefutable condition of the new concept of development, focused on promoting human and planetary dignity, whose nonobservance may even jeopardize such enterprises. It was hypothesized that initiatives of improving ethical standards, with a development and reinforcement of concepts and practices of corporate governance and corporate social responsibility, are important factors of concreteness, in the global productive chain, of human rights. The hypothetical-deductive method and a bibliographical and periodical research were adopted in the work.