Corporate purpose beyond borders: A key to saving our planet or colonialism repackaged?

• Main Authors: NURGOZHAYEVA, Roza, PUCHNIAK, Dan W.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2023
• Subjects: Corporate Purpose; Transnational/Multijurisdictional Corporate Governance; Climate Change; ESG; CSRD; CSDDD; SEC; Nonfinancial Disclosure; Stakeholderism; Business Organizations Law
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/4382; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sol_research/article/6340/viewcontent/SSRN_id4652012.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

The “corporate purpose” debate, while extremely important, has largely been built on an understanding of corporate law and governance that is local – jurisdiction bound – while the issue of climate change is global; pollution does not respect jurisdictional borders. Despite this, in practice, states...