Edited by Beate Sjåfjell, Professor of Law, Centre for Global Sustainability (GLOBE) and Faculty of Law, University of Oslo, Norway, Carol Liao, Professor, Peter A. Allard School of Law and Distinguished Fellow of the Peter P. Dhillon Centre for Business Ethics, University of British Columbia, Canada and Aikaterini Argyrou, Associate Professor, Nyenrode Business University, the Netherlands

• Contents:Preface xForeword xii1 Innovating business for a sustainable post-pandemic future 1Carol Liao, Beate Sjåfjell and Aikaterini ArgyrouPART I SUSTAINABILITY, GENDER AND THE ROLEOF BUSINESS2 We need to talk about gender in the ‘safe operating spacefor humanity’ 18Sarah E. Cornell3 Systems thinking and the law in the age of the Anthropocene 48Hanna Ahlström4 The problem with selling gender equality as business innovation 67Roseanne RussellPART II REGULATORY APPROACHES TOINNOVATING SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS5 Superannuation funds and corporate sustainability in Australia 89Vijaya Nagarajan and Ann Wardrop6 Sustainability and implementation of the Non-FinancialReporting Directive in the United Kingdom, Germany and Spain 115Isabel Άlvarez Vega and Charlotte Villiers7 The shortcomings of regulating transparency forsustainable development in African mining 142Sara Ghebremusse8 How legal and tax support can reinforce the innovative andinclusive power of social enterprises 165Pjotr Anthoni, Aikaterini Argyrou and Tineke LambooyPART III RECONCEPTUALIZING THEORY, LAW ANDGOVERNANCE9 Can the modern corporation operate sustainably? 190Susan Watson10 Resilient corporate agents 210Yue S. Ang11 Regulation by litigation on the path to sustainable corporations 231Carol Liao12 Re-embedding the corporation in society and on our planet 255Beate Sjåfjell13 Corporate law and sustainability in a reimaginedpost-pandemic world 283Carol Liao, Beate Sjåfjell and Aikaterini ArgyrouIndex

‘This work belies the adage “Never judge a book by its cover” because the cover is inspiring and so is material within.’

Edited by Beate Sjåfjell, Professor of Law, Centre for Global Sustainability (GLOBE) and Faculty of Law, University of Oslo, Norway, Carol Liao, Professor, Peter A. Allard School of Law and Distinguished Fellow of the Peter P. Dhillon Centre for Business Ethics, University of British Columbia, Canada and Aikaterini Argyrou, Associate Professor, Nyenrode Business University, the Netherlands

• Contents:Preface xForeword xii1 Innovating business for a sustainable post-pandemic future 1Carol Liao, Beate Sjåfjell and Aikaterini ArgyrouPART I SUSTAINABILITY, GENDER AND THE ROLEOF BUSINESS2 We need to talk about gender in the ‘safe operating spacefor humanity’ 18Sarah E. Cornell3 Systems thinking and the law in the age of the Anthropocene 48Hanna Ahlström4 The problem with selling gender equality as business innovation 67Roseanne RussellPART II REGULATORY APPROACHES TOINNOVATING SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS5 Superannuation funds and corporate sustainability in Australia 89Vijaya Nagarajan and Ann Wardrop6 Sustainability and implementation of the Non-FinancialReporting Directive in the United Kingdom, Germany and Spain 115Isabel Άlvarez Vega and Charlotte Villiers7 The shortcomings of regulating transparency forsustainable development in African mining 142Sara Ghebremusse8 How legal and tax support can reinforce the innovative andinclusive power of social enterprises 165Pjotr Anthoni, Aikaterini Argyrou and Tineke LambooyPART III RECONCEPTUALIZING THEORY, LAW ANDGOVERNANCE9 Can the modern corporation operate sustainably? 190Susan Watson10 Resilient corporate agents 210Yue S. Ang11 Regulation by litigation on the path to sustainable corporations 231Carol Liao12 Re-embedding the corporation in society and on our planet 255Beate Sjåfjell13 Corporate law and sustainability in a reimaginedpost-pandemic world 283Carol Liao, Beate Sjåfjell and Aikaterini ArgyrouIndex

‘This work belies the adage “Never judge a book by its cover” because the cover is inspiring and so is material within.’

Edited by Beate Sjåfjell, Professor of Law, Centre for Global Sustainability (GLOBE) and Faculty of Law, University of Oslo, Norway, Carol Liao, Professor, Peter A. Allard School of Law and Distinguished Fellow of the Peter P. Dhillon Centre for Business Ethics, University of British Columbia, Canada and Aikaterini Argyrou, Associate Professor, Nyenrode Business University, the Netherlands

• Contents:Preface xForeword xii1 Innovating business for a sustainable post-pandemic future 1Carol Liao, Beate Sjåfjell and Aikaterini ArgyrouPART I SUSTAINABILITY, GENDER AND THE ROLEOF BUSINESS2 We need to talk about gender in the ‘safe operating spacefor humanity’ 18Sarah E. Cornell3 Systems thinking and the law in the age of the Anthropocene 48Hanna Ahlström4 The problem with selling gender equality as business innovation 67Roseanne RussellPART II REGULATORY APPROACHES TOINNOVATING SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS5 Superannuation funds and corporate sustainability in Australia 89Vijaya Nagarajan and Ann Wardrop6 Sustainability and implementation of the Non-FinancialReporting Directive in the United Kingdom, Germany and Spain 115Isabel Άlvarez Vega and Charlotte Villiers7 The shortcomings of regulating transparency forsustainable development in African mining 142Sara Ghebremusse8 How legal and tax support can reinforce the innovative andinclusive power of social enterprises 165Pjotr Anthoni, Aikaterini Argyrou and Tineke LambooyPART III RECONCEPTUALIZING THEORY, LAW ANDGOVERNANCE9 Can the modern corporation operate sustainably? 190Susan Watson10 Resilient corporate agents 210Yue S. Ang11 Regulation by litigation on the path to sustainable corporations 231Carol Liao12 Re-embedding the corporation in society and on our planet 255Beate Sjåfjell13 Corporate law and sustainability in a reimaginedpost-pandemic world 283Carol Liao, Beate Sjåfjell and Aikaterini ArgyrouIndex

‘This work belies the adage “Never judge a book by its cover” because the cover is inspiring and so is material within.’