Research Handbook on Sustainability and Corporate Accountability

This timely Research Handbook addresses the challenges that arise when seeking to hold unsustainable businesses accountable amid social and ecological crises. Presenting in-depth analysis of prevailing regulatory approaches, leading experts identify barriers to, and possible solutions for, corporate responsibility.

Bridging international and business law, contributors explore how gaps in accountability are enabled through fragmented corporate groups, transnational value chains and territorially bounded legal doctrines. Encompassing a range of jurisdictions from around the world, the Research Handbook provides novel insights on corporate power in globalized business, the role of finance and accounting and the use of contracts for sustainability in global value chains. Chapters move beyond the disruptive use of courts to consider a number of regulatory possibilities, highlighting the potential for change despite deeply entrenched unethical practices.

Proposing regulatory interventions to enable, promote or mandate corporate accountability, the Research Handbook on Sustainability and Corporate Accountability is essential reading for scholars and students of law, political science, economics and business management. Industry practitioners will also benefit from its guidance on rapidly evolving regulatory developments in changing times.