Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction: ESG, ethics, law, and beyond Valentina Gentile, Eric W. Orts, Andreas Rasche and Alan Strudler; 1. ESG as dead and alive: how confusion around ESG's meaning hinders and benefits ESG's future Lisa M. Fairfax; 2. Ethics by proxy? An agency-theoretic analysis of ESG investment Joseph Heath and Sareh Pouryousefi; 3. What is the purpose of ESG? Who should decide? Valentina Gentile, Eric W. Orts and Alan Strudler; 4. The square peg: why the environment won't fit management models Thomas Donaldson; 5.

Success, law, and ESG Colin Mayer; 6. Reforming ESG ratings: contributions from deliberative theory Andreas Georg Scherer, Dana Entenza and David Sieber; 7. Responsibilization of business and the informational ethics of ESG Steen Vallentin; 8. The ethics of ESG integration: ethical dilemmas of quantification Andreas Rasche; 9. The ethical quandary of monetary valuation in ESG impact measurement Laura Marie Edinger-Schons and Judith Stroehle; Index.