1st Edition
Corporate Behavior and Sustainability Doing Well by Being Good
Part I: Market Behaviour, Stakeholders’ Approach and Good Governance
1. Agency Theory: Explaining or Creating Problems? Good Governance and Ethical Behaviour for Sustainable Business
2. Using a Stakeholder Approach to Understand Success: Empirical Tests in Indian Businesses
3. Behavior in Academe: An Investigation into the Sustainability of Mainstream Scholarship in Management Studies
Part II: Effective Business Behaviour for Corporate Sustainability
4. The Walls Between Us: Governance for Sustainability
5. Governing Corporate Responsibility: The Role of Soft Regulation
6. Corporate Citizenship, Ethics and Accountability: The Significance of the Process of Trust for Corporate Legitimacy in Late Modernity
Part III: Monitoring and Reporting on Sustainability
7. Positioning of Corporate Social Responsibility in Media Reporting: The Role of Media Setting
8. A Pathway to Corporate Sustainability – Social Accounting
9. ESG Matters and the Boardroom
Part IV: The Requirements for Implementation of Sustainability
10. The Drivers of Change
11. From Ego-to Eco – Theoretical Challenges and Practical Implications of a "Next Generation": Responsible Leadership as a Collaborative Endeavor
12. Valuing Corporate Governance
13. Defining and Achieving Good Governance
Biography
Güler Aras is a professor of Finance at Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey, and a Visiting Professor at Georgetown University McDonough School of Business. She is the founding director of The Center for Finance, Governance and Sustainability (CFGS) at YTU. She is the former Dean of the Faculty of Administrative and Economic Sciences and the Graduate School.
Coral Ingley is Associate Professor of Management in the Faculty of Business and Law at the Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand. In 2006 she founded and is Director of the Centre for Corporate Governance at the university and is a member of the Faculty’s Work Research Institute. She has served as a visiting professor at Sorbonne University, Paris, ESC-Troyes, France, Maastricht University, The Netherlands, and Toulouse Business School, Barcelona, Spain. Her research focus is on corporate governance.
‘Anyone involved in the development of boardroom functioning will treasure this book because it provides another avenue to help academics and professionals become reflective, observant and introspective. This will be extremely helpful in gaining knowledge for improving business strategy and leading the business of sustainability. True experts on each topic have contributed in achieving this. Impeccable!’
Manoj K. Raut, CEO and Director, Institute of Directors
