Can I read Sustainability Clauses in International Business Contracts on EtoBox?

Sustainability Clauses in International Business Contracts by Kateřina Peterková Mitkidis is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Sustainability Clauses in International Business Contracts about?

Sustainable development is a globally recognized goal. However, governments are failing to reach agreement on how this should be achieved. Private actors that are under stakeholders' pressure try to fill this regulatory gap by developing various types of transnational private regulation. However, transnational private regulation suffers from weak legitimacy, questionable effectiveness, and lack of credible enforcement. This book suggests that supply chain contracting may offer an alternative regulation that could lead away from the current regulatory impasse, or at least be one of the missing pieces in the puzzle. Despite the traditionally primary goal of business - to make a profit - companies are, under the imperative of corporate social responsibility (CSR), engaging in activities pursuing public goals in the social and environmental spheres. The book examines one of the tools developed to implement CSR into the business operations: social and environmental clauses in international supply chain contracts ('sustainability contractual clauses,' SCCs). Since there is a lack of literature and regulation on this topic, companies use SCCs without proper knowledge or guidance on why an

Who reads Sustainability Clauses in International Business Contracts?

Author

Kateřina Peterková Mitkidis

Publisher

Eleven International Publishing

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9789462364813

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Law, Economics, Management