Sustainable Boardrooms

ISBN-13: 9789819948369 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023

Opis

This book discusses various interactions in the sustainability and development sector. It presents a thematic approach to describe progressive models and cases on disruptions, innovations, regulatory and institutional evolution related to the area of sustainability, through an organizational and boardroom level governance lens. It documents how certain schools of thought, models of engagement and methods-platforms-practices impact society and while doing so, brings together varying theoretical debates, practicing models and instruments of transformation in green governance. 

Sustainable policy making demands a whole of government approach in decision-making processes. Further, inclusiveness and ‘green’ consciousness of corporate boardrooms are paramount, without which, effective socially responsible business practices are absurd. Human resource development, shaped on sustainable corporate ethics, requires well-trained sustainability specialists, managers that can think ‘green’ in their overall decision making which are essential for green governance.

 

In this context, the book creates a functional, interpretive repertoire of stories, commentaries, life experiences, and reflections of corporate leaders, academics, and practicing consultants, on their decision-making processes, and how they interpret sustainability. These stories and thoughts help create a functional academic construct, which will assist academics teach ‘green’ competencies to business school students better, and entrepreneurs and business executives to better understand the idea of sustainable growth.

Spis treści

Environment, social & governance norms: assessing the need for shifting focus from corporate governance to sustainable corporate governance

An overview of ESG reporting in India: practices and challenges

Green human resource management - a gendered approach to sustainability through women employment

Reflections on a green economy with reference to green skills for green jobs

Decentralizing climate action in India – lessons from global practices

Leverage AI in green governance: potential for a climate reversal

Traditional knowledge, sustainability, and international intellectual property law: biopiracy in patent- intensive industries

Social credits, recognition and tax benefits for green business growth: companies demonstrating greater green governance and their social stand

Green dispute resolution: a sustainable way of resolving disputes

O autorze

Apoorvi Shrivastava is an Accredited Arbitrator of Chartered Institute of Arbitration (CIArb), leading professional membership organization representing the interests of alternative dispute resolution practitioners worldwide. She also runs a Centre of Alternative Dispute Resolution and propagates narrow interpretation of Public Policy aspect in the Indian Jurisdiction. She is an academician with the teaching and administrative experience of almost over a decade in different prestigious institute. Her research interest includes corporate sustainability, international commercial arbitration and role of public policy in the societal norms. 

 

She is an avid supporter of green arbitration and has written numerous papers on sustainable advancement of corporate sector by tackling human rights, environmental, labour issues. Her Public-Private Arbitration is applauded globally. She conducts various mediation and negotiation trainings for researchers, students, corporates, entrepreneurs to equip them with the skill to resolve disputes, amicably crack deals along with proper consideration of green governance principles.

Amlan Bhusan is a public policy specialist trained at the School of Government, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, and has been a behavioral economist with Lund University, Sweden, with an independent consulting practice over two decades with many multilateral organizations across Australia, New Zealand, Switzerland, Sweden and the wider ASEAN region. He is currently a Policy Advisor to the Blavatnik school of Government, Oxford University, a visiting professor to the Indian Institute of Management, and an Adjunct professor to the National Institute of Technology in India. Amlan is also a director and Chairperson at the Research consultancy firm, MBI global Limited, based out of London, U.K. His research interests include social economic integration, contours of social Impact in both industrial organisations as well as academia, large-scale fund sourcing constructs and alternative finance methods, and regional economic integration on the sustainability charter. In addition, his consulting terrain further over the years has diversified into rehabilitative urbanization, labor mobility, skills development, sustainable livelihoods, and capability development for local and regional government agencies in several countries. 

Blurb

This book discusses various interactions in sustainability and development sector and presents thematic approach, progress, models, cases, disruptions and innovations, and regulatory and institutional evolution. It attempts to document how certain schools of thought, models of engagement, methods-platforms-practices, and impact on the society and brings together varying theoretical debates, practicing models, and instruments of transformation in green governance. 

Green governance principles entail perception of the most basic premises of economic, political, and legal orders, as well as cultural orders. Sustainable policy making demands a whole of government approach in decision-making processes. Further, inclusiveness and ‘green’ consciousness of corporate boardrooms are paramount, without which, effective socially responsible, business practices are absurd. Human resource development shaped, on sustainable corporate ethics, require well-trained sustainability specialists, managers that can think ‘green’ in their overall decision making which are essential for green governance. 

The book attempts to create a functional interpretive repertoire of stories, commentaries, life experiences, and reflections of corporate leaders, academics, and practicing consultants, on how they interpret sustainability and their decision-making processes. These stories and thoughts help create a functional academic construct, which will assist academics teach ‘green’ competencies to business school students better and entrepreneurs to learn the idea of sustainable growth.