Frankly Speaking - A Podcast on Responsible Business

#21 Beate Sjåfjell: Is shareholder primacy consistent with sustainability?


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Frankly Speaking welcomes Professor Beate Sjåfjell, who publishes extensively on corporate governance and the integration of sustainability in the role of the company boards, to talk about company law. Beate heads the research group on Sustainability Law at the University of Oslo, is a member of the European Commission’s Informal Group of Company Law Experts and founded an international network of women business scholars Daughters of Themis: International Network of Women Business Scholars. Listen in to a conversation about: 

  • Shareholder value versus shareholder primacy

  • Fiduciary duties

  • Corporate governance frameworks around Europe and the Anglo-Saxon traditions

  • Why not to replace shareholder primacy with stakeholder primacy

  • Sustainable value creation as an emerging concept 

  • How to take planetary boundaries into account in decision making 

  • Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive and its implications for boards and liability

  • Gender as a agent of change for business


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