The Corporation, Corporate Governance and the Sustainable Transition: 98 (Research in the Sociology of Organizations, 98)

As the main agents of economic growth world-wide, corporations embody a paradoxical role in our current social and political order.They are increasingly viewed as legitimate partners and subjects of global governance and the sustainable transition, but they are also routinely involved in scandals and crises both in relation to their financial power but also to the climate crisis. Acknowledging corporations as both the (perceived) agents of sustainable growth and technological development favouring a sustainable transition, as well as of inequality, greenwashing, climate crisis and environmental disasters, this edited collection includes chapters that focus on the corporation as a specific form of business organization and the role of the corporation and corporate governance in the sustainable transition.It brings together innovative research that investigates ways of reforming corporate governance practices in the light of corporations’ responsibility for climate degradation; develops