Empresa contemporânea e a proteção aos direitos humanos

Abstract

The Firm is an institute in constant transformation, acquiring new dynamics and patterns in order to develop a better economic efficiency. The contemporary firm segmented its good-production process, enhancing new forms to organize the economic activity, among oth-ers the society groups unified by power of control. In this context, the firm was recognized as the organizing agent of the productive economic activity, assuming, thus, the function of eco-nomic agent. Whiten this dynamic, it must be recognized that, beside the private interests coex-ists interests others than the partner's. Soon societary law incorporated the discipline of the internal and external interests of the firm, covering, there after, the interets of partners, em-ployees, suppliers, consumers and the community in general, amongothers. The society won even more importance, going as far as been considered the most important organizative layout of the entrepreneurial activity and, thus, requiring the delineation of its operating boundaries. In this regard, international instruments are caught in the spotlight, for example, the United Nations Guiding Principles in Business and Human Rights and the OECD guidelines for multinational enterprises, that work as parameter for the civil liability of firms in the global produc-tion chains