Skip to main content Accessibility help

We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.

Close cookie message
×
  1. Home
  2. Search

Refine search

Refine search

Access:
Content type:
Publication date:
Apply   From and To filters
Subject: Show more
Journals Show more
Publishers: Show more
Societies Show more
Series: Show more
Collections: Show more

Actions for selected content:

Select all | Deselect all
  • View selected items
  • Export citations
  • Download PDF (zip)
  • Save to Kindle
  • Save to Dropbox
  • Save to Google Drive

Save Search

You can save your searches here and later view and run them again in "My saved searches".

Please provide a title, maximum of 40 characters.
Cancel
×

2 results

  • 36 - Leaders or Laggards?

  • from Part III - Corporate Law, Corporate Governance and Sustainability: Case Studies
  • Edited by Beate Sjåfjell, Universitetet i Oslo, Christopher M. Bruner, University of Georgia
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Handbook of Corporate Law, Corporate Governance and Sustainability
    Published online:
    25 November 2019
    Print publication:
    12 December 2019, pp 504-518

  • Summary

    Over recent decades, a host of smaller jurisdictions have become extraordinarily dominant in specialized fields of cross-border corporate and financial services. Chief among them are Hong Kong and Singapore, both regarded as among the world’s most significant financial centers. This chapter analyzes their track records in achieving corporate sustainability and concludes that each is at once a leader and a laggard, depending on one’s perspective. The analysis highlights complex questions regarding how we ought to conceptualize and evaluate corporate sustainability in an era increasingly defined by the free movement of capital – because Hong Kong and Singapore represent microcosms of our increasingly globalized financial world. The challenges faced in assessing the sustainability of their corporate, financial, and economic models reflect underlying challenges in assessing the sustainability of unfettered global capital mobility.