The third Daughters of Themis volume
The volume springs out of one of the several collaborative projects of Daughters of Themis: International Network of Female Business Scholars, and brings together contributions from women business scholars from a range of disciplines and countries. The volume highlights the difficulties and the possibilities that lie in working together across disciplines with the aim of achieving corporate sustainability. The volume is written from the perspective of women business scholars, thereby offering outside viewpoints in fields that still are very much dominated by men, and fresh insights and innovate ideas. The authors address the need for interdisciplinarity in research to identify ways to ensure the contribution of business to sustainability, showcasing a number of theoretical and applied approaches for researching sustainable business. The book is intended for business scholars, and will particularly appeal to those working in law, accountancy and finance, management, and organization studies.
Contents of the volume
The book is available in print and online through selected university libraries. The introductory chapter as well as abstracts of all chapters but one are freely available on SSRN.
Chapter 1: Interdisciplinarity for Sustainable Business, by Maja van der Velden, Roseanne Russell and Beate Sjåfjell
Chapter 2: ‘Thinking with Care’: Exploring interdisciplinarity in a global research project, by Maja van der Velden and Beate Sjåfjell
Chapter 3: Integrative research – a scientific and social process: A trust perspective on integrative work, by May-Britt Ellingsen
Chapter 4: Interdisciplinary Research in Law: A Reflective Case Study with Lessons for Sustainability Researchers, by Victoria Schnure Baumfield
Chapter 5: Sustainability and Law and Economics: An Interdisciplinary Redefinition of Agency Theory, by Beate Sjåfjell
Chapter 6: Sustainability in EU business law and financial market law: An interdisciplinary methodology, by Hanna Ahlström
Chapter 7: The Questionable Rise of ‘Good’ Corporations and Hybrid Business Law: Theoretical Trappings, Methodological Challenges, and Transdisciplinary Futures, by Carol Liao
Chapter 8: What? How? and For What?: Assessment Metrics for Sustainability, by Maria Ángeles Fernández-Izquierdo, Maria Jesus Munoz-Torres, Juana Maria Rivera Lirio, Elena Escrig Olmedo and Idoya Ferrero-Ferrero
Chapter 9: Companies and Unconscious Bias: A Case Study on the Need for Interdisciplinary Scholarship, by Roseanne Russell
Chapter 10: A Grounded Company: Contradiction, Community, and Sustainable Business Practices, by Gwendolyn J. Gordon (deceased)
Chapter 11: Investing in Planetary Boundaries? Analysing Sustainable Investments of Sovereign Wealth Funds in Europe, by Heidi Rapp Nilsen, Maria Jesus Munoz-Torres, and Elena Escrig Olmedo
Chapter 12: Transferring Interdisciplinary Sustainability Research to Practice: Barriers and Solutions to the Practitioner-Academic Gap, Grace Samuel, Alison Stowell, Amanda Williams and Rodney Irwin
More information about the volume is available on the website of Springer Nature. The royalties from sales of Interdisciplinary Research for Sustainable Business go to the network Daughters of Themis, to contribute to funding its activities.