Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has been widely studied for a long time by, for example, management studies and political sciences (Carroll et al. 2012; Scherer and Palazzo 2011), but has for a long time only played a minor role in law and legal scholarship. One of the main reasons for this...

Central to the ability to recognise, respect and balance stakeholder needs for the board of a public corporation are the ways in which the status and purpose of the modern corporation are understood (Veldman et al, 2016). Shifting conceptions of the status and purpose of the modern corporation...

The EU-funded project Sustainable Market Actors for Responsible Trade (SMART, 2016-2020), undertook an interdisciplinary and multilevel regulatory analysis of the barriers and possibilities for securing the contribution of private and public market actors to a sustainable future. Jurisdiction-...

This article addresses the question of how the Dutch regulatory and institutional setting enables policy coherence, specifically with regard to safeguarding stakeholders’ interests and promoting sustainable governance. To address this question, we engage with idiosyncratic theoretical notions...

The past few decades have seen an increasing scrutiny of the impacts – both positive and negative – that companies have on the societies in which they operate. The search for adequate responses to such scrutiny is reflected in developments in the societal, political and academic debate on...

There is a broad call to integrate planetary boundaries and life-cycle based reporting into accounting theory and reporting standards. Although many practitioners back this call, including insurers, shareholders with a long-term orientation, and company law specialists who suggest that the...

For more than a century, the corporation has shaped our thinking of organizations. This deeply institutionalized form is still regarded as both the iconic business organization and the core structural unit of our economic order. Today, however, it stands at a crossroads. Economic, social, and...

This paper addresses the question how the Dutch regulatory and institutional setting enables policy coherence, specifically with regard to safeguarding stakeholders interests and promoting sustainable governance. To address this question, we engage with idiosyncratic theoretical notions in the...

This Special Issue revisits the classic question of comparative corporate governance research, namely whether national corporate governance systems are converging. More specifically, it focuses on several ‘convergence vectors' which comprise the political, legal, economic and social...