The Corporation, Corporate Governance and the Sustainable Transition

Emerald Publishing Limited

The Corporation, Corporate Governance and the Sustainable TransitionAuthor(s): Tessa Tilde Barnow, Benjamin Ask Popp-Madsen, Mathias Hein Jessen\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Emerald Publishing Limited, United Kingdom\nImprint: Emerald Publishing Limited\nISBN-13: 9781836089650, 978-1836089650\nSynopsis\nAs the main agents of economic growth world-wide, corporations embody a paradoxical role in our current social and political order. They are increasingly viewed as legitimate partners and subjects of global governance and the sustainable transition, but they are also routinely involved in scandals and crises both in relation to their financial power but also to the climate crisis.\n\nAcknowledging corporations as both the (perceived) agents of sustainable growth and technological development favouring a sustainable transition, as well as of inequality, greenwashing, climate crisis and environmental disasters, this edited collection includes chapters that focus on the corporation as a.