Corporate Governance and Human Capital Management in the ESG Framework: A Comparison between the EU and the US
10 Nov 2023
12:00 -14:00
Open to: All
Sinyi Seminar Room, Cambridge Judge Business School
Trumpington St
Cambridge
CB2 1AG
United Kingdom
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Speaker: Lance Ang, Singapore University of Social Sciences
About the seminar topic
The last few years have witnessed increasing recognition of the importance of human capital management as part of the firm’s corporate purpose. This has led to the emergence of human capital management disclosure and the management of human capital risks under the ESG framework. What has heretofore been within the remit of labour law has become a feature of corporate law and finance, as part of the ‘S’ in ESG. These developments merit an examination of sustainability as a legal concept in the context of the relationship between capital and labour. What does sustainability entail where human capital (or labour) is concerned? In this light, this paper compares the divergent approaches between the EU and US towards human capital management in the ESG framework to distinguish between different conceptions of sustainability, and, in turn, the management of sustainability risks with respect to human capital as part of the corporate purpose.