Most people have believed that corporate social responsibility (CSR) played a significant role in the 2008 global financial crisis. However, little research has been done to reflect on the underlying issues of CSR in connection to the financial crisis. This collection brings together leading scholarly thinking to understand why CSR failed to prevent the global financial crisis, how corporate social irresponsibility (CSI) contributed to the financial crisis, and how we may reframe CSR or improve CSR frameworks to help prevent or mitigate any future financial and economic crises. This volume...

This new title is aimed at the corporate market and provides information on pension rights and obligations. It includes encyclopaedic coverage of the legal issues relating to corporate pensions with relevant updated and edited material drawn from Freshfields in-house briefings dating from 1998 to 2011.

This book - aimed at the corporate market - provides information on UK pension rights and obligations. It includes encyclopedic coverage of the legal issues relating to corporate pensions with relevant updated and edited material drawn from Freshfields in-house briefings dating from 1998 to 2012. Written in a clear and user-friendly way, Freshfields on Corporate Pensions Law 2013 is an annual guide to occupational pensions in the UK from the perspective of the employer. Complexities caused by increased costs and liabilities, changes to UK and European legislation, and judicial decisions on...

This fifth edition of Corporate Insolvency offers an overview of the law of employment, pensions, and corporate insolvency in the UK. It also focuses on the application of rules relating to corporate insolvency and how they affect employees and their pension rights, drawing together UK legislation, case law, analysis, and comment. It explains the detailed elements of this specialist field of law and practice, providing a useful base on which to answer questions that are likely to arise.

This book is aimed at the corporate market and provides information on UK pension rights and obligations. It includes encyclopaedic coverage of the legal issues related to corporate pensions with relevant updated and edited material drawn from Freshfields in-house briefings. Freshfields on Corporate Pensions Law 2015 will equip readers with a comprehensive and detailed exposition of UK corporate pension rights and obligations. Containing 'bitesized' analysis of salient topics - such as funding, employer debt, corporate transactions, conflicts of interest, investment issues, and other...