Description
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.
About the Author
Edited by Beate Sjafjell, 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
Reviews
'This work belies the adage "Never judge a book by its cover" because the cover is inspiring and so is material within.' -- Nordic Journal of International Law
'Innovating Business for Sustainability is an ambitious book that successfully questions business-paradigms and offers concrete, well thought out methods to implement sustainability in the modern business world. . . an important steppingstone in not just innovating business for sustainability but innovating the economic way of thinking around the globe.' -- LEAD journal
'Existing corporate sustainability practices and regulatory approaches may no longer be fit for purpose for our COVID-19 world and beyond. Innovating Business for Sustainability not only captures the zeitgeist, its contributors do so in a reflective work of real scholarship which conveys the urgency of the challenge, bringing to bear thought-provoking fresh angles that frame and advance the field against the backdrop of a global pandemic.' -- Deirdre Ahern, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
'There is growing recognition that the interconnected global crises we face require urgent reforms to the conduct of business, yet the nature and extent of such reforms remain hotly debated. This essential volume compellingly argues that we must embed the concept of sustainability at the very heart of corporate law, and the authors' expert analyses challenge us to rethink prevailing regulatory approaches in light of the gendered nature of existing structures and the complexity of social-ecological systems.' -- Christopher Bruner, University of Georgia School of Law, US
'The circular economy, corporate social responsibility, green finance, and other proliferating concepts in the corporate landscape speak to the importance of embedding greater environmental sensitivity in business practice. This timely, cosmopolitan volume provides, through the voices of female scholars, valuable insights into adapting business governance to the upheavals of the Anthropocene. Professors Sjafjell, Liao and Argyrou offer a superb, landmark contribution to theoretical and empirical knowledge in this field.' -- Benjamin J. Richardson, University of Tasmania, Australia
Book Information
ISBN 9781839101311
Author Beate Sjafjell
Format Hardback
Page Count 328
Imprint Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Publisher Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
