Innovating Business for Sustainability

Regulatory Approaches in the Anthropocene

Beate Sjåfjell, Carol Liao, Aikaterini Argyrou (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

328 Seiten

2022
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-83910-131-1 (ISBN)

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Challenging current attitudes to governance and regulation in business, this timely book ascertains how regulatory approaches can innovate to ensure sustainable business that contributes to social justice for current and future generations within ecological limits.

Combining a research-based approach with a gendered perspective of how sustainability goals are shaped and how businesses should engage with them, this pioneering book creates a comprehensive and contemporary understanding of what sustainability means for business. Identifying the limitations of current approaches to gender and equality alongside the weaknesses of current regulatory and theoretical approaches in business, chapters seek to enhance the practical understanding and embeddedness of sustainability into business within legal and regulatory landscapes. Insights from an international collection of expert scholars in fields ranging from sustainability science to law offer meaningful alternatives to the sustainable business status quo on both conceptual and concrete levels.

Providing a regulatory analysis of business positioned in a systems-based sustainability research framework, this book will prove an invaluable resource for students and scholars of sustainability science, business and management, and law and regulation. With practical insights, it will also prove essential for policymakers working in business regulation and sustainability in business.

Edited by Beate Sjåfjell, Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Oslo, Norway, Carol Liao, Associate Professor, Peter A. Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia, Canada and Aikaterini Argyrou, Associate Professor, Nyenrode Business University, the Netherlands

Contents:

Preface x
Foreword xii
1 Innovating business for a sustainable post-pandemic future 1
Carol Liao, Beate Sjåfjell and Aikaterini Argyrou

PART I SUSTAINABILITY, GENDER AND THE ROLE
OF BUSINESS
2 We need to talk about gender in the ‘safe operating space
for humanity’ 18
Sarah E. Cornell
3 Systems thinking and the law in the age of the Anthropocene 48
Hanna Ahlström
4 The problem with selling gender equality as business innovation 67
Roseanne Russell

PART II REGULATORY APPROACHES TO
INNOVATING SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS
5 Superannuation funds and corporate sustainability in Australia 89
Vijaya Nagarajan and Ann Wardrop
6 Sustainability and implementation of the Non-Financial
Reporting Directive in the United Kingdom, Germany and Spain 115
Isabel Άlvarez Vega and Charlotte Villiers
7 The shortcomings of regulating transparency for
sustainable development in African mining 142
Sara Ghebremusse
8 How legal and tax support can reinforce the innovative and
inclusive power of social enterprises 165
Pjotr Anthoni, Aikaterini Argyrou and Tineke Lambooy

PART III RECONCEPTUALIZING THEORY, LAW AND
GOVERNANCE
9 Can the modern corporation operate sustainably? 190
Susan Watson
10 Resilient corporate agents 210
Yue S. Ang
11 Regulation by litigation on the path to sustainable corporations 231
Carol Liao
12 Re-embedding the corporation in society and on our planet 255
Beate Sjåfjell
13 Corporate law and sustainability in a reimagined
post-pandemic world 283
Carol Liao, Beate Sjåfjell and Aikaterini Argyrou

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Erscheinungsdatum	17.08.2022
Verlagsort	Cheltenham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Umweltrecht
	Recht / Steuern ► Wirtschaftsrecht ► Gesellschaftsrecht
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management
ISBN-10	1-83910-131-8 / 1839101318
ISBN-13	978-1-83910-131-1 / 9781839101311
Zustand	Neuware