Book contents
- Reviews
- The Cambridge Handbook of Corporate Law, Corporate Governance and Sustainability
- The Cambridge Handbook of Corporate Law, Corporate Governance and Sustainability
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Forewords
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I Global Business and Fragmented Regulation
- Part II Corporate Law, Financial Markets and Sustainability
- Part III Corporate Law, Corporate Governance and Sustainability: Case Studies
- 10 Progress Is Possible
- 11 Green but Not Enough
- 12 The Australian Paradox
- 13 Moving beyond Virtue Signalling
- 14 The EU as a Potential Norm Creator for Sustainable Corporate Groups
- 15 Market-Led Sustainability through Information Disclosure
- 16 Law, Culture and Sustainability
- 17 Stakeholder Value versus Corporate Sustainability
- 18 Worker Participation, Sustainability and the Puzzle of the Volkswagen Emissions Scandal
- 19 Corporate Sustainability and Shareholder Activism in the Netherlands
- 20 Old-Fashioned yet Innovative
- 21 The Unsuccessful Pursuit for Sustainability in Italian Business Law
- 22 Sustainability and the Transformation of the Socialist Corporation into the Private Corporation
- 23 Limited Demand, Limited Supply
- 24 The Pacific Alliance
- 25 Social Environmentalism and Corporate Capture
- 26 The Social and Ethics Committee
- 27 Reforming the Nigerian Oil and Gas Sector
- 28 Enlightenment or Resistance?
- 29 The Community Company as a Vehicle for Sustainability in Solomon Islands
- 30 What Does It Mean to Be Sustainable?
- 31 Shareholder Voting and Corporate Sustainability in China
- 32 Corporate Governance Reform, Social Norms and Sustainability in Japanese Companies
- 33 Achieving Sustainable Development Goals in India
- 34 Sustainability and Legislated Corporate Social Responsibility in Indonesia
- 35 Islamic Financial Institutions and Corporate Sustainability
- 36 Leaders or Laggards?
- Part IV Potential Drivers for Change
- Conclusion
- Index
13 - Moving beyond Virtue Signalling
Corporate Sustainability for New Zealand
from Part III - Corporate Law, Corporate Governance and Sustainability: Case Studies
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 November 2019
- Reviews
- The Cambridge Handbook of Corporate Law, Corporate Governance and Sustainability
- The Cambridge Handbook of Corporate Law, Corporate Governance and Sustainability
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Forewords
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I Global Business and Fragmented Regulation
- Part II Corporate Law, Financial Markets and Sustainability
- Part III Corporate Law, Corporate Governance and Sustainability: Case Studies
- 10 Progress Is Possible
- 11 Green but Not Enough
- 12 The Australian Paradox
- 13 Moving beyond Virtue Signalling
- 14 The EU as a Potential Norm Creator for Sustainable Corporate Groups
- 15 Market-Led Sustainability through Information Disclosure
- 16 Law, Culture and Sustainability
- 17 Stakeholder Value versus Corporate Sustainability
- 18 Worker Participation, Sustainability and the Puzzle of the Volkswagen Emissions Scandal
- 19 Corporate Sustainability and Shareholder Activism in the Netherlands
- 20 Old-Fashioned yet Innovative
- 21 The Unsuccessful Pursuit for Sustainability in Italian Business Law
- 22 Sustainability and the Transformation of the Socialist Corporation into the Private Corporation
- 23 Limited Demand, Limited Supply
- 24 The Pacific Alliance
- 25 Social Environmentalism and Corporate Capture
- 26 The Social and Ethics Committee
- 27 Reforming the Nigerian Oil and Gas Sector
- 28 Enlightenment or Resistance?
- 29 The Community Company as a Vehicle for Sustainability in Solomon Islands
- 30 What Does It Mean to Be Sustainable?
- 31 Shareholder Voting and Corporate Sustainability in China
- 32 Corporate Governance Reform, Social Norms and Sustainability in Japanese Companies
- 33 Achieving Sustainable Development Goals in India
- 34 Sustainability and Legislated Corporate Social Responsibility in Indonesia
- 35 Islamic Financial Institutions and Corporate Sustainability
- 36 Leaders or Laggards?
- Part IV Potential Drivers for Change
- Conclusion
- Index
Summary
New Zealand’s image as clean and green and a fair society is core to its identity. Yet despite the rhetoric, sustainability considerations are not yet central to its corporate governance. Shareholder primacy thinking by some regulators, commentators and boards has hampered attempts to encourage companies to prioritise sustainability despite the Law Commission vision that the New Zealand company operate as an enterprise. This chapter focuses on regulatory approaches to corporate governance and sustainability in New Zealand, first through the various codes and then with a discussion of the means and ends of its corporate governance. It is argued that the means are through the board and the ends are to act in the best interests of the company, conceived of as an enterprise, concluding that there is potential for genuine sustainability when the best interests of the company are considered from the perspective of the entity itself.
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