Interdisciplinary Research for Sustainable Business

Dr. Beate Sjåfjell is a Professor in the Faculty of law at the University of Oslo and a visiting professor at College of Europe, European Legal Studies Department. She is founder and head of the Oslo Law Faculty’s research group Companies, Markets and Sustainability. She also coordinates international projects and networks,  including the EU-funded interdisciplinary project Sustainable Market Actors for Responsible Trade (SMART, 2016-2020) and  Daughters of Themis: International Network of Female Business Scholars. She publishes extensively in the field of corporate law, corporate governance and sustainability.Dr. Roseanne Russell is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Bristol Law School (UK) where she researches labour law, corporate governance and feminist legal theory. Her work to date has focussed on the representation, treatment and progression of women in the corporate workplace. Prior to joining academia, Roseanne was a solicitor specialising in employment law.Dr. Maja van der Velden is a Professor at the Department of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway. Her research is focused on the design and impact of digital technologies, in particular the interaction of technologies with societies and planet, with sustainability, digitalisation, and just transitions as special interests. She leads the Regenerative Technologies research group and founded the Sustainability Lab. Prior to joining the University, Maja worked for a number of years advising civil society organisations on the adaptation of information and communications technology, in particular in contexts of economic development and social change.

• Chapter 1.- Introduction. Chapter 2.- Thinking with care: Exploring interdisciplinarity in a global research project. Chapter 3.- A trust perspective on interdisciplinary work. Chapter 4.- Companies and Unconscious Bias: A case study on the need for interdisciplinary scholarship. Chapter 5.- Making the Case for Case Studies in Empirical Legal Research. Chapter 6.- An Unsustainable Connection: ‘Law and Economics’ and Corporate Law. Chapter 7.- Interdisciplinary Research in Law: A Case Study. Chapter 8.- A social network analysis methodology to unveil the interconnectivity between EU business and financial market law and its role for sustainable development. Chapter 9.- The Global and Trans-systemic Rise of Social Enterprise and Hybrid Business Law. Chapter 10.- A Grounded Company: Ethics, Identity, and the Privately Owned Corporation. Chapter 11.- Methodologies for integrating different disciplines in the sustainability assessment. Chapter 12.- Artificial intelligence as intermediary: consequences for analysis of regulation of business. Chapter 13.- Investing in the Planetary Boundaries? Analyzing Sustainable Investments of Sovereign Wealth Funds. Chapter 14.- Transferring interdisciplinary sustainability research to practice: Barriers and solutions to the practitioner-academic gap. Chapter 15.- Conclusion.