Challenging current attitudes to governance and regulation in business, this timely book ascertains how regulatory approaches can innovate to ensure sustainable business that contributes to social justice for current and future generations within ecological limits.

Contents: Preface x Foreword xii 1 Innovating business for a sustainable post-pandemic future 1 Carol Liao, Beate Sjåfjell and Aikaterini Argyrou PART I SUSTAINABILITY, GENDER AND THE ROLE OF BUSINESS 2 We need to talk about gender in the ‘safe operating space for humanity’ 18 Sarah E. Cornell 3 Systems thinking and the law in the age of the Anthropocene 48 Hanna Ahlström 4 The problem with selling gender equality as business innovation 67 Roseanne Russell PART II REGULATORY APPROACHES TO INNOVATING SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS 5 Superannuation funds and corporate sustainability in Australia 89 Vijaya Nagarajan and Ann Wardrop 6 Sustainability and implementation of the Non-Financial Reporting Directive in the United Kingdom, Germany and Spain 115 Isabel Άlvarez Vega and Charlotte Villiers 7 The shortcomings of regulating transparency for sustainable development in African mining 142 Sara Ghebremusse 8 How legal and tax support can reinforce the innovative and inclusive power of social enterprises 165 Pjotr Anthoni, Aikaterini Argyrou and Tineke Lambooy PART III RECONCEPTUALIZING THEORY, LAW AND GOVERNANCE 9 Can the modern corporation operate sustainably? 190 Susan Watson 10 Resilient corporate agents 210 Yue S. Ang 11 Regulation by litigation on the path to sustainable corporations 231 Carol Liao 12 Re-embedding the corporation in society and on our planet 255 Beate Sjåfjell 13 Corporate law and sustainability in a reimagined post-pandemic world 283 Carol Liao, Beate Sjåfjell and Aikaterini Argyrou Index