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.
Author(s): Beate Sjåfjell, Carol Liao, Aikaterini Argyrou
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 326
City: Cheltenham
Front Matter
Copyright
Contents
Contributors
Preface
Foreword
1. Innovating business for a sustainable post-pandemic future
PART I SUSTAINABILITY, GENDER AND THE ROLE OF BUSINESS
2. We need to talk about gender in the ‘safe operating space for humanity’
3. Systems thinking and the law in the age of the Anthropocene
4. The problem with selling gender equality as business innovation
PART II REGULATORY APPROACHES TO INNOVATING SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS
5. Superannuation funds and corporate sustainability in Australia
6. Sustainability and implementation of the Non-Financial Reporting Directive in the United Kingdom, Germany and Spain
7. The shortcomings of regulating transparency for sustainable development in African mining
8. How legal and tax support can reinforce the innovative and inclusive power of social enterprises
PART III RECONCEPTUALIZING THEORY, LAW AND GOVERNANCE
9. Can the modern corporation operate sustainably?
10. Resilient corporate agents The workers’ role in sustainability
11. Regulation by litigation on the path to sustainable corporations
12. Re-embedding the corporation in society and on our planet: Company law as a vehicle for change
13. Corporate law and sustainability in a reimagined post-pandemic world
Index
