Corporate Governance and Sustainability: Challenges for Theory and Practice

by Benn; Suzanne

• ISBN13: 9780415380621
• ISBN10: 0415380626
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-12-26
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

In recent years, as corporations and governments have increasingly been confronted with managing the expectations of a society newly alerted to the social and environmental risks of economic development, recognition is dawning that achieving a sustainable world is dependent upon the democratic management and equitable distribution of these risks for now, and for the future. This book, the first to explore the themes of corporate governance and sustainability, argues that a better system of governance on a number of levels holds the key. Contributed to and edited by a distinguished international team, this book recognizes the complex and contested nature of both sustainability and governance, and that these key concepts have been redefined considerably over time. Arranged in four parts, it covers: * The governance and sustainability challenges * Critique of established models of governance * Redesigning governance for sustainability * Implementing governance for sustainability. Assustainability poses new and major challenges for the theory and practice of corporate governance, this book, ideal for postgraduate students of business and management, identifies and addresses these challenges.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	p. ix
Notes on contributors	p. xi
Series editor's preface	p. xv
Acknowledgements	p. xvii
Introduction	p. 1
Introduction: Governance and Sustainability Challenges	p. 7
New forms of governance: changing relationships between corporates, government and community	p. 9
Understanding corporate sustainability: recognizing the impact of different governance systems	p. 36
Limitations of Existing Models of Corporate Governance	p. 57
Why corporate governance rankings do not predict future value: evidence from Toronto Stock Exchange listings 2002-5	p. 59
Synthesizing governance themes from political and management theory	p. 76
Towards a model of governance for sustainability: networks, shared values and new knowledge	p. 94
Financing environmental sustainability: a new role for the law	p. 122
Redesigning Governance for Sustainability	p. 143
Sustainability in paradigms and practices at board level in Anglo American plc	p. 145
Codes of conduct as a tool for sustainable governance in MNCs	p. 165
The case of governance for sustainability at IAG	p. 187
The civil regulation of corporations: towards stakeholder democracy	p. 206
The materiality of sustainability: corporate social and environmental responsibility as instruments of strategic change?	p. 219
Index	p. 252
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