Company Law and Sustainability
Legal Barriers and Opportunities
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Company Law and Sustainability
Legal Barriers and Opportunities
About this book
This investigation of the barriers to and opportunities for promoting environmental sustainability in company law provides an in-depth comparative analysis of company law regimes across the world. The social norm of shareholder primacy is the greatest barrier preventing progress, and it also helps explain why voluntary action by companies and investors is insufficient. By deconstructing the myth that shareholder primacy has a legal basis and challenging the economic postulates on which mainstream corporate governance debate is based, Company Law and Sustainability reveals a surprisingly large unexplored potential within current company law regimes for companies to reorient themselves towards sustainability. It also suggests possible methods of reforming the existing legal infrastructure for companies and provides an important contribution to the broader debate on how to achieve sustainability.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Preface
- 1 Capitalism, the sustainability crisis, and the limitations of current business governance
- 2 Corporate social responsibility and environmental sustainability
- 3 Shareholder primacy: the main barrier to sustainable companies
- 4 The role of board directors in promoting environmental sustainability
- 5 Accounting, auditing, and reporting: supporting or obstructing the sustainable companies objective?
- 6 Financial markets and socially responsible investing
- 7 Limits to corporate reform and alternative legal structures
- 8 The future of company law and sustainability
- Index