This chapter assesses whether socially responsible investing (SRI) through voluntary codes of conduct can help promote sustainable development. The financial industry has drafted, sometimes in partnership with public agencies and other stakeholders, a wide range of codes of conduct in recent...

The design and development of appropriate regulatory mechanisms have attracted renewed attention in recent years. In particular, a shift towards voluntary self-regulatory mechanisms has been witnessed within many industries, such as the Australian mining and petroleum industries which have...

For several decades now, publicly-held corporations have been adopting codes of conduct or corporate codes of ethics to further both federal law, as well as corporate goals and mandates. The implementation of such codes, however, is creating a legal conundrum for those firms seeking to operate...