Sustainability and Corporate Governance: A Practice Guide to Implementing a Sustainability Governance System (European Company Law)

About this book:Sustainability and Corporate Governance aims to provide guidance on creating a governance framework for corporations that integrates all of the recognized principles of sustainability that have emerged in recent years, which are now being discussed in boardrooms across the world. There has been a clear shift in perceptions regarding the relationship between corporate governance and sustainability. Directors now need to acknowledge that sustainability is a part of their responsibility in guiding and overseeing corporate activities. In practice, engaging with this wider responsibility is no easy task. This incomparable reference superbly meets the urgent set of challenges. This is the first book to describe how to organize board and senior management activities in order to fulfil the company’s goals with respect to operating in a socially responsible manner and acting as a sustainable business.What’s in this book:In its step-by-step approach to integrating sustainability principles into corporate governance, this book dramatically shows how policy in such business areas as the following can be redrawn to fit effectively into a sustainability framework: