Sustainable Boardrooms: Democratising Governance and Technology for Society and Economy

This book discusses various interactions in the sustainability and development sector. It presents a thematic approach to describe progressive models and cases on disruptions, innovations, regulatory and institutional evolution related to the area of sustainability, through an organizational and boardroom level governance lens. It documents how certain schools of thought, models of engagement and methods-platforms-practices impact society and while doing so, brings together varying theoretical debates, practicing models and instruments of transformation in green governance.
Sustainable policy making demands a whole of government approach in decision-making processes. Further, inclusiveness and ’green’ consciousness of corporate boardrooms are paramount, without which, effective socially responsible business practices are absurd. Human resource development, shaped on sustainable corporate ethics, requires well-trained sustainability specialists, managers that can think ’green’ in their overall decision making which are essential for green governance. In this context, the book creates a functional, interpretive repertoire of stories, commentaries, life experiences, and reflections of corporate leaders, academics, and practicing consultants, on their decision-making processes, and how they interpret sustainability. These stories and thoughts help create a functional academic construct, which will assist academics teach ’green’ competencies to business school students better, and entrepreneurs and business executives to better understand the idea of sustainable growth.

Apoorvi Shrivastava is an assistant dean at the IFIM Law School, Bengaluru, India, and arbitration enthusiast. She is an Accredited Arbitrator of Chartered Institute of Arbitration (CIArb), leading professional membership organization representing the interests of alternative dispute resolution practitioners worldwide. She also runs a Centre of Alternative Dispute Resolution and propagates narrow interpretation of Public Policy aspect in the Indian Jurisdiction. She is an academician with the teaching and administrative experience of almost over a decade in different prestigious institute. Her research interest includes corporate sustainability, international commercial arbitration and role of public policy in the societal norms. She is an avid supporter of green arbitration and has written numerous papers on sustainable advancement of corporate sector by tackling human rights, environmental, labour issues. Her Public-Private Arbitration is applauded globally. She conducts various mediation and negotiation trainings for researchers, students, corporates, entrepreneurs to equip them with the skill to resolve disputes, amicably crack deals along with proper consideration of green governance principles.
Amlan Bhusan is a public policy specialist trained at the School of Government, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, and has been a behavioral economist with Lund University, Sweden, with an independent consulting practice over two decades with many multilateral organizations across Australia, New Zealand, Switzerland, Sweden and the wider ASEAN region. He is currently a Policy Advisor to the Blavatnik school of Government, Oxford University, a visiting professor to the Indian Institute of Management, and an Adjunct professor to the National Institute of Technology in India. Amlan is also a director and Chairperson at the Research consultancy firm, MBI global Limited, based out of London, U.K. His research interests include social economic integration, contours of social Impact in both industrial organisations as well as academia, large-scale fund sourcing constructs and alternative finance methods, and regional economic integration on the sustainability charter. In addition, his consulting terrain further over the years has diversified into rehabilitative urbanization, labor mobility, skills development, sustainable livelihoods, and capability development for local and regional government agencies in several countries.