Intro -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Introduction -- I. Legal Frameworks Straining Boundaries -- 1. Foreign Wrongs, Corporate Rights and the Arc of Transnational Law -- 2. The Corporation and Modern Capitalism: Folk, Broke and Woke -- 3. Implications of a Sophisticated...

1. Introduction -- 2. Understanding "Bhopal" afresh -- 3. Evaluation of existing regulatory initiatives : an analytical framework -- 4. Existing regulatory initiatives : an evaluation of (in)adequacy -- 5. Just profit or just profit : why should corporations have human rights obligations? -- 6....

We examine whether engagement on environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues can benefit shareholders by reducing firms' downside risk, measured using the lower partial moment and value at risk. Using a proprietary database, we provide evidence supporting this hypothesis. We further find...

The study examines the relation between the nationality and educational background diversity of directors serving on corporate boards and the firms' corporate social responsibility (CSR). We measures nationality diversity by directors' national citizenship and educational background diversity by...

This paper investigates whether shareholders benefit from corporate social responsibility (CSR) by studying the effect of institutional investors on CSR. After all, arguing against CSR is hard when investors push for it. I find that longer investor horizons lead to significantly more CSR. This...

Based on a large international sample, we examine the effects of CSR on the cost of equity under different levels of investor protection. In countries where investor protection is strong (poor), our results show that the cost of equity falls (rises) when a firm invests in CSR. Our findings are...

How does a board of directors decide what is right? The contest over this question is frequently framed as a debate between shareholder value and stakeholder rights, between a utilitarian view of the ethics of corporate governance and a deontological one. This paper uses a case study with...

Good governance is good PR, it is important in every sphere of society, whether it be the corporate environment, the political, or wider society. When resources are too limited to meet the minimum expectations of the people, it is a good governance level that can help to promote the welfare of...