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This volume brings together contributions from women business scholars from a range of disciplines and countries. The starting point was a collaborative research meeting organised by Daughters of Themis: International Network of Female Business Scholars in June 2017. 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. In three main parts, 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 volume 's introductory chapter situates the volume in discourses of sustainability and corporate sustainability. It presents the Daughters of Themis Network and provides a short description of the successive eleven chapters. In Part I, Reflections, contributors discuss the significance of interdisciplinary research, how to work across disciplines, as well as the challenges of doing so. In Part II, Theory, contributors discuss theoretical and methodological aspects of interdisciplinary research. Part III presents the Practice of interdisciplinary research. In the introductory chapter, the editors reflect on the insights that can be drawn out of the contributions, and discuss the potential for future developments of interdisciplinary research for sustainability, as well as how interdisciplinary research can be communicated. The book is intended for business scholars, and will particularly appeal to those working in law, accountancy and finance, management, and organization studies

This volume brings together contributions from women business scholars from a range of disciplines and countries. The starting point was a collaborative research meeting organised by Daughters of Themis: International Network of Female Business Scholars in June 2017. 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. In three main parts, 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 volume's introductory chapter situates the volume in discourses of sustainability and corporate sustainability. It presents the Daughters of Themis Network and provides a short description of the successive eleven chapters. In Part I, Reflections, contributors discuss the significance of interdisciplinary research, how to work across disciplines, as well as the challenges of doing so. In Part II, Theory, contributors discuss theoretical and methodological aspects of interdisciplinary research. Part III presents the Practice of interdisciplinary research. In the introductory chapter, the editors reflect on the insights that can be drawn out of the contributions, and discuss the potential for future developments of interdisciplinary research for sustainability, as well as how interdisciplinary research can be communicated. The book is intended for business scholars, and will particularly appeal to those working in law, accountancy and finance, management, and organization studies.--

Access to finance is crucial if we are to achieve the fundamental transition of our time: securing a safe and just society operating within the planetary boundaries. In the era of global market capitalism and deregulation, Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs) offer one of the few public economic institutions capable of injecting ecological and social values into global markets. This article undertakes a case study of one of the world's largest SWF, the Norwegian Government Pension Global (The Fund). The Fund is well-known for its Ethical Guidelines recommending exclusion of companies based on products and conduct as well as the Fund's public statements when withdrawing from companies. Still, the ethical basis of overlapping consensus leads to responding to public opinion and media controversy when considering divestment, rather than undertaking due diligence beforehand. In addition, and not well known, more firms have been excluded from the Fund based on the financial risk against the portfolio than based on the Ethical Guidelines. In this article we discuss the basis of both the Ethical Guidelines and of the financial risk management of the portfolio. Still, the majority of the Fund's investments are on an unsustainable path of 'business as usual'. A principal thesis of this article is the paradox that the more unsustainable 'business as usual' becomes, the importance of financial risk assessment increases and the relevance of the Ethical Guidelines decreases. ; Der Zugang zu Finanzmitteln ist entscheidend, wenn wir den grundlegenden Wandel unserer Zeit erreichen wollen: die Sicherung einer sicheren und gerechten Gesellschaft, die innerhalb der Kapazitäten unseres Planeten funktioniert. Im Zeitalter des globalen Marktkapitalismus und der Deregulierung bieten Staatsfonds (Sovereign Wealth Funds, SWFs) eine der wenigen öffentlichen ökonomischen Institutionen, die in der Lage sind, ökologische und soziale Werte in die globalen Märkte zu bringen. Dieser Artikel enthält eine Fallstudie über einen der weltweit größten Staatsfonds, den staatlichen norwegischen Pensionsfonds (The Government Pension Fund Global). Der Fonds ist bekannt für seine Ethikrichtlinien, die den Ausschluss von Unternehmen aufgrund von Produkten und Verhaltensweisen empfehlen, sowie für die öffentlichen Erklärungen des Fonds beim Rückzug aus Unternehmen. Die ethische Basis eines übergreifenden Konsenus führt dazu, dass die öffentliche Meinung und Mediendebatten bei der Prüfung von Veräußerungen berücksichtigt werden, anstatt vorher eine sorgfältige Prüfung vorzunehmen. Weitgehend unbekannt ist, dass darüber hinaus mehr Unternehmen aufgrund des finanziellen Risikos des Portfolios als aufgrund der Ethikrichtlinien aus dem Fonds ausgeschlossen wurden. In diesem Artikel behandeln wir die Grundlagen sowohl der Ethikrichtlinien als auch des finanziellen Risikomanagements des Portfolios. Dennoch befindet sich der Großteil der Investitionen des Fonds auf einem nicht nachhaltigen Weg des "business as usual". Eine Hauptthese dieses Artikels ist das Paradoxon, dass je unhaltbarer das "business as usual" wird, desto mehr nimmt die Bedeutung der finanziellen Risikobewertung zu und die Relevanz der Ethikrichtlinien ab.