Towards Sustainability : Major Challenges for Corporate Law, Corporate Governance and Regulation.

Intro -- COVER -- HALF TITLE PAGE -- TITLE PAGE -- COPYRIGHT -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- ABOUT THE AUTHORS AND EDITORS -- CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION -- 1.1 CORPORATE GOVERNANCE -- CHAPTER 2: CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY: THE STANDARD FOR 21ST CENTURY BUSINESS -- 2.1 INTRODUCTION -- 2.2 MVO NEDERLAND: A CSR KNOWLEDGE AND NETWORK ORGANISATION -- 2.3 CSR AND THE HUMAN BRAIN -- 2.4 CSR: PROFIT OF VALUES -- 2.5 CSR WILL AFFECT CORPORATE PERFORMANCE -- 2.6 CSR ACCELERATION NEEDS MULTIPLE INNOVATIONS -- 2.7 THREE GROUPS OF COMPANIES -- 2.8 DRIVERS OF CSR -- 2.9 SCARCITY: IMPORTANT DRIVING FORCE -- 2.10 TWO VIEWS -- 2.11 CORPORATE CSR STRATEGIES -- 2.12 CSR AGENDA FOR THE FUTURE -- CHAPTER 3: TOWARDS SUSTAINABILITY: FROM GOVERNMENT TO GOVERNANCE -- 3.1 ADOPTION OF CLEAN-UP TECHNOLOGY SINCE 1970 -- 3.2 SELF-REGULATION AND MORE EMPHASIS ON PREVENTION SINCE 1985 -- 3.3 INCREASING ATTENTION FOR LIFE CYCLE MANAGEMENT SINCE 1990 -- 3.4 CURRENT SITUATION -- 3.5 CONCLUSION -- CHAPTER 4: SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT: THERE IS NO ALTERNATIVE -- 4.1 INTRODUCTION -- 4.2 HOW GLOBAL MEGA-TRENDS AFFECT OUR INDUSTRY? -- 4.3 A NEW INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION STRATEGY OF ACCELERATED SUSTAINABLE GROWTH, VALUE AND FAIR USE -- 4.4 THE STRATEGY TO BE A SUCCESSFUL, SUSTAINABLE, PROFITABLE COMPANY -- 4.5 TARGETS -- 4.6 SUSTAINABILITY MAKES A GREAT BUSINESS CASE -- CHAPTER 5: CRACKING THE IMPERMEABLE CEILING OF CORPORATE SUSTAINABILITY PERFORMANCE LEVELS -- 5.1 INTRODUCTION -- 5.2 SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: THE NECESSITY OF AN INTEGRAL APPROACH -- 5.3 CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY: FROM TAKING RESPONSIBILITY TO FOCUSING ON COMPANY-SPECIFIC CONTENT -- 5.4 CRACKING PERSISTENT PERCEPTIONS -- 5.5 A PLEA FOR A STRONGER REGULATORY APPROACH -- 5.6 CONCLUSIONS.

APPENDIX 1: OVERVIEW OF DIMENSIONS: ASPECTS AND ISSUES IN THE CONTENT OF CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY (BASED ON DOMMERHOLT, 2009) -- CHAPTER 6: CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY, BEYOND VOLUNTARISM: REGULATORY OPTIONS TO REINFORCE THE LICENSE TO OPERATE -- PRE-AND POST-SCRIPT -- 6.1 FROM PRACTICE TO THEORY, AN INTRODUCTION -- 6.2 CSR AND SUBSTANCE: SOCIAL NORMS -- 6.3 CSR AND FORM: LEGAL PLURALISM -- 6.4 CSR AND LAW, OXYMORON? -- 6.5 CSR, CONCEPT, PRACTICE AND FOUNDATIONAL THEORY: THE LICENCE TO OPERATE -- 6.6 REINFORCING THE LICENCE TO OPERATE BY CHANGING THE PARADIGMS IN COMPANY LAW -- 6.7 FROM PRACTICE TO THEORY, EPILOGUE.

Towards Sustainability covers the presentations held at the launching event of the Institute for Corporate Law, Governance, and Innovation Policies (ICGI) at Maastricht University. The thought-provoking presentations were given by the following distinguished speakers: Willem Lageweg (Director of MVO Nederland and a member of the ICGI Advisory Board), Prof. Dr. Jacqueline Cramer (Director of the Utrecht Sustainability Institute and Professor in Sustainable Innovation at Utrecht University), Dr. Andre Veneman (Corporate Director Sustainability/Health Safety and Environment at AkzoNobel), Prof. Jan Eijsbouts and Prof. Sybren De Hoo (both members of the Maastricht University based Institute for Corporate Law, Governance and Innovation Policies). In addition to these presentations, the inaugural lectures of Professor Eijsbouts and Professor De Hoo have been updated and are included in the book. Towards Sustainability will be of interest, not only to legal scholars and practitioners with an interest in the legal challenges brought about by the corporate social responsibility debate, but also for managers of stock-quoted companies, as well as small- and medium-sized companies. Contents include: Corporate Social Responsibility: The Standard for 21st Century Business * Towards Sustainability: From Government to Governance * Sustainable Business Development: There Is No Alternative! * Cracking the Impermeable Ceiling of Corporate Sustainability Performance Levels * Corporate Responsibility, beyond Voluntarism: Regulatory Options to Reinforce the License to Operate. (Series: Dovenschmidt Monographs - Vol. 2).

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