Reinventing the corporation

Avant-propos

“…[3] Dans un tel contexte et aussi satisfaisant que soit le mouvement opéré par le droit de l'entreprise, ce dernier est-il à la hauteur des enjeux sociétaux du XXI e siècle ? Depuis plusieurs années, il est clairement en reconstruction (Hayden et Bodie, 2021;Boeger, 2018;Mayer, 2016), tout comme l'entreprise elle-même (Bakan, 2021) [9] Le professeur Martin Dumas clôture ce numéro en résumant les éléments forts des contributions et en ouvrant à de nouvelles perspectives. Le droit des sociétés se reconfigure avec un spectre large pour être capable de répondre aux grands défis de ce siècle dans ses multiples dimensions interreliées : économique, environnement et social (Bruner et Sjåfjell, 2020, p. 714).…”

When Wall Street manages Main Street: Managerial dilemmas, sustainability, and inequality

“…Parallels to the Tata model are found in Europe where some corporations still rely on the use of family trusts or industrial foundations that create the basis for committed capital. This may be a source for the further development of this model in Europe (Mayer 2013(Mayer , 2016. In the US, one effort to create an alternative to the shareholder model is the 'Benefit Corporation'-which in contrast to traditional corporations, is a legally incorporated for-profit enterprise with explicit social as well as profitability goals.…”

Corporate actors, the UN Sustainable Development Goals and Earth System Governance: A research agenda

“…Following comprehensive assessments of the rapid rates of environmental change (Steffen et al, 2004;2015) towards a planet whose state is quantitatively and qualitatively different (Rockström et al, 2009;Steffen et al, 2011;Steffen et al, 2018), 'Earth System Governance' (ESG) provides a framework for developing new insights into governing this coupled socio-ecological system (Biermann et al, 2009;2012a, b;2016;Galaz et al, 2012). Earth system governance is defined as "the interrelated and increasingly integrated system of formal and informal rules, rulemaking systems, and actor-networks at all levels of human society (from local to global) that are set up to steer societies toward preventing, mitigating, and adapting to global and local environmental change and, in particular, earth system transformation, within the normative context of sustainable development" (Biermann et al 2009, p.4).…”

“…Yet while much attention has focused on society and policy makers (e.g., Bai et al, 2016;Folke et al, 2016;Patterson et al, 2017), we know significantly less about how businesses exercise agency as part of ESG (Bouteligier 2011;Lim et al, 2018) and specifically how they contribute to the UN SDGs (Kolk et al, 2017). Concerns are mounting over how large corporations are being governed (Mayer, 2016;Mayer et al, 2017) and how businesses generally should operate in the Anthropocene (Albareda and Waddock 2018; Dyck and Greidanus 2016; Hoffman andJennings 2015, 2018;Whiteman et al, 2013;Whiteman and Yumashev, 2018;Wright et al, 2018). As finance, economics and management underlie much of human social activities, the role of business and corporate actors in achieving the SDGs needs to be examined (Shrivastava et al, 2019).…”