Sustainable Futures

The book presents empirical insights on the relationship between corporate governance, environmental exposure and environmental sustainability performances of Indian non-financial companies.

The book discusses and analyses the basic theories and concepts associated with corporate governance and environmental exposure like the concept of board size, board meetings, proportion of independent director, CEO duality, air pollution, water pollution, soil pollution; and corporate governance theories like the various forms of ownership, agency crisis and its kinds, dominance and expropriation of large shareholders and the possible way out to protect the interest of their minority counterpart etc. It also explores the theoretical postulations, concepts and conventions relating to the topic and critically goes through the literature to develop the hypotheses and to finally testify the set of hypotheses using a set of reliable and suitable econometric estimation techniques to draw meaningful inferences on Indian non-financial companies. The conceptual and theoretical aspects of the topic are presented in a lucid and intelligible manner which enhances the theoretical and practical understanding of the students and scholars in the domain of commerce and management studies.

Offering robust empirical evidence, this book will be useful for corporate governance professionals, sustainability and CSR managers, environmental consultants, regulatory authorities, policymakers, academics, industry associations, and think tanks working on corporate governance, environmental sustainability, environmental studies, CSR, commerce, management, and banking.

Author Biography

Suchismita Ghosh is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Management Studies, Midnapore City College, Midnapore, West Bengal, India. She has over two years’ experience in teaching undergraduate and postgraduate students. Dr. Ghosh is actively involved in research and academia in the domain of Environmental Sustainability, Corporate Governance and Corporate finance. She has also contributed several research works in reputed publishing house like Wiley, Springer, Sage, Inderscience, Emerald, etc.

Tarak Nath Sahu is working as Professor in the Department of Commerce, Vidyasagar University, Midnapore, West Bengal, India. He has 18 years of postgraduate teaching and research experience in the field of finance and financial economics. Prof. Sahu, a gold medalist at both graduate and postgraduate levels, has authored seven books and edited twelve books. He has already completed five research projects sponsored by UGC and ICSSR. Under his supervision fifteen researchers have been awarded their Ph.D. degrees. Prof. Sahu has published around hundred sixty research articles in different reputed journals.