Activists have exposed startling forms of labor exploitation and environmental degradation in global industries, leading many large retailers and brands to adopt standards for fairness and sustainability. This book is about the idea that transnational corporations can push these standards...

This study is aimed at developing and validating an index designed to measure the level of social disclosure of external social programmes implemented by firms listed on the Brazilian stock market. Based on Ramanathan (1976), Haydel (1989) and Hammond and Miles (2004), the index of social...