The Societal Company: Sustainability, Shareholder Value, and European Company Law

Many attempts have been made to reduce the harms caused by business and to make companies become socially responsible. This book approaches the subject from a new perspective arguing that reflexive law offers the best means to align the interests of large companies with those of society and that recent developments in European company law fit a reflexive model.

A reflexive company law, rather than trying to directly regulate companies, aims to affect internal decision-making processes to ma...