Handbook on Corporate Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility

✍ Scribed by Michel Magnan; Giovanna Michelon

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Year: 2024
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 429
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The world-wide transition towards corporate social responsibility (CSR) results in profound changes to business practices. Hence, this crucial Handbook adopts a global perspective to review key CSR issues and their implications for the future evolution of corporate governance. Michel Magnan and Giovanna Michelon bring together leading experts who deftly explore the critical tensions and areas of convergence between CSR and corporate governance. The Handbook further assesses the environmental responsibilities corporations are now facing and examines the wide range of social responsibility issues affecting businesses, with a particular focus on corporate philanthropy, boardroom diversity, workplace harassment and gender equality. The Handbook concludes with some thought-provoking discussion about the future evolution of corporate governance if it is to succeed in addressing emerging environmental and social challenges. Arguing that environmental and social responsibilities represent the essence of CSR, this dynamic Handbook provides a number of policy and practical recommendations, proposing ideas for future research and useful indications for boards of directors. This incisive and forward-thinking Handbook will be an important read for academics and researchers interested in corporate governance, CSR, and sustainability. It will also prove highly beneficial for professionals and practitioners working in corporate governance and its intersection with sustainability.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter
Copyright
Contents
Figures
Tables
Boxes
Contributors
Corporate governance and corporate social responsibility: Introduction and roadmap
PART I FOUNDATIONS
1. Corporate governance and corporate social responsibility: A reconciliation with tension
2. Corporate governance and corporate social responsibility: A continuity perspective
3. Corporate social responsibility: A director’s perspective
4. CEO activism: Connecting with stakeholders
5. Net zero targets and governance: A literature review (2009–2021)
6. The challenge of measuring CSR performance
PART II ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY
7. Internal carbon pricing: Origins, determinants, and the impact of governance
8. Multi-stakeholder climate action partnerships: What do we ‘really’ know about business partner contributions to partnership goals?
9. Responsible investment, integrating the SDGs, corporate reporting and governance by an asset owner: The case of the Construction and Building Industry Superannuation Fund (Cbus)
10. An overview of the circular economy
11. CSR-related governance mechanisms: Is the impact on CSR performance effective or symbolic?
12. Corporate governance and environmental disclosures
13. CSR disclosure, capital markets, and the moderating influence of corporate governance
14. Sustainability from the top: Revisiting the roles and responsibilities of the board of directors
PART III SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
15. Corporate philanthropy: Antecedents, consequences, and implications for corporate governance
16. Boardroom diversity: The role of the responsible leader
17. Social alliances as catalyzers of CSR programs’ impact
18. Corporate governance, COVID-19, and stakeholders: Learnings from the Canadian financial sector
19. What should a board of directors know about workplace harassment?
20. Knowing your supply chain to implement environmental sustainability effectively
21. The ladder of Indigenous governance
22. Promoting women on African boards: An examination of board diversity provisions in corporate governance codes
23. Relying on offshore financial centers: A social issue that raises governance concerns for multinationals
24. Social reporting: Trends, determinants, and implications
PART IV LOOKING INTO THE FUTURE OF CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
25. Diversity at the top: Evidence on board composition and representation
26. A socio-ecological approach to corporate governance
27. Accountability-based participatory corporate governance and corporate social responsibility
Index