The company, with legal personality, limited liability and transferable shares, is one of the most ingenious inventions of humanity. The company is an all-important vehicle for allocating and efficiently employing capital in our societies, providing goods, services, jobs - and revenue. It is a...

This article was drawn up as a part of University of Oslo 'Sustainable Companies' Project. It presents selected issues related to Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainable Development principles in Polish company law. The first part briefly presents the relations between the free-market...

The paper analyses possibilities and barriers to promoting sustainable companies through company legislation in Lithuania with specific focus on environmental protection and climate change.The authors start by overviewing the framework of Lithuanian company law, including types of companies,...

How might company law be in a world in which all economic sectors are expected to show leadership and share responsibility in the transition to an environmentally sustainable future? That is the focus of the final chapter, which synthesizes insights from the rest of book in reiterating the...