Company Law and Sustainability - Legal Barriers and Opportunities (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	May 2015
Editors:	Beate Sjafjell • Benjamin J. Richardson
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	374
ISBN-13:	978-1-107-04327-5
Categories:	Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > Business negotiation Books > Law > Laws of other jurisdictions & general law > Financial, taxation, commercial, industrial law > Company law Books > Law > Laws of other jurisdictions & general law > Social law > Environment law Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Applied ecology > General
LSN:	1-107-04327-1
Barcode:	9781107043275

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