Creating Corporate Sustainability
Gender as an Agent for Change

A compelling collection of essays by female scholars examining the relationships between sustainability, corporations and the role of gender.

Beate Sjåfjell (Edited by), Irene Lynch Fannon (Edited by)

9781108447676, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 2 January 2020

357 pages, 3 b/w illus. 2 tables
22.8 x 15.1 x 1.5 cm, 0.45 kg

'Exceptionally well organized and presented, Creating Corporate Sustainability: Gender as an Agent for Change presents fresh perspectives and invaluable insights on what changes are needed to create the sustainable corporation and the potential role of women as agents for these changes.' Midwest Book Review

This compelling volume considers three significant modern developments: the ever-changing role of women in society; a significant and growing dissatisfaction with current dominant understandings of corporate governance, corporate law and corporate theory; and the increasing concern to establish sustainable business models globally. A range of female scholars from across the globe and from different disciplines interconnect these ideas in this unique collection of new and thought-provoking essays. Readers are led through a carefully planned enquiry focussing initially on female activism and the corporation, secondly on liberal attempts to include women in business leadership and, finally, on critiquing the modern focus on women as a 'fix' for ethical and unsustainable business practises which currently dominates the corporate world. This collection presents a fresh perspective on what changes are needed to create the sustainable corporation and the potential role of women as influencers or as agents for these changes.

1. Corporations, sustainability and women Irene Lynch Fannon and Beate Sjåfjell
Part I. Women as Influencers of Corporate Action: 2. Reclaiming value and betterment for Bangladeshi women workers in global garment chains Lorraine Talbot
3. Access to voice: meaningful participation of women in corporate consultations Ragnhild Lunner
4. Ascertaining corporate sustainability from 'below': the case of the Ghanaian rural mining communities Adaeze Okoye and Emmanuel Osuteye
Part II. Current Strategies for Corporate Sustainability: 5. Company reporting of environmental, social and gender matters: limitations, barriers, and changing paradigms Gill North
6. 'A toad we have to swallow': perceptions and participation of women in business and the implications for sustainability Irene Lynch Fannon
7. Gender diversity on corporate boards: an empirical analysis in the EU context Idoya Ferrero-Ferrero, M. Ángeles Fernández-Izquierdo and M. Jesús Muñoz-Torres
8. Social entrepreneurship: (the challenge for) women as economic actors? The role and position of women in the Dutch social enterprises Aikaterini Argyrou, Rosalien Diepeveen and Tineke Lambooy
9. How change happens: the benefit corporation in the United States and considerations for Australia Victoria Schnure Baumfield
Part III. Feminist Theories and Corporate Sustainability: 10. Exploring spatial justice and the ethic of care in corporations and group governance Yue S. Ang
11. The uneasy relationship between Corporations and gender equality: a critique of the 'transnational business feminism' project Roseanne Russell
12. The gendered corporation: the role of masculinities in shaping corporate culture Catherine O'Sullivan
13. Power and the gender imperative in corporate law Carol Liao
14. Corporate sustainability: gender as an agent for change? Beate Sjåfjell and Irene Lynch Fannon.

Subject Areas: Company law [LNCD], Commercial law [LNCB], Company, commercial & competition law [LNC], Laws of Specific jurisdictions [LN], Gender & the law [LAQG], Law [L], Corporate governance [KJR]