The module addresses the practice of corporate governance, its integration with corporate sustainability, and whether it is part of the problem or the solution to concerns over the impact of business on people and planet. Corporate governance is concerned with the ownership, control and direction of companies. It is embedded in the institutional and legal framework of nations and is fundamental to understanding the character, conduct and significance of business locally, regionally, nationally and globally. Through lectures, seminars, individual and group research the module will consider the essential meaning of corporate governance and how it operates at, national, firm, board and managerial levels of analysis. Sustainability affords the module a context constituted by an array of substantive matters by which to consider challenges and opportunities facing governance actors and institutions including company boards of directors that relate to the role of business in society. In this regard the module will focus on the “G”(governance) but cross into the “E”(environmental), “S”(social) rubric that is now such a part of business discourse, investment practice, and societal consideration. Module coverage will go beyond a conception of the function and purpose of corporate governance as it relates to shareholder primacy to consider other constituents as well as challenges that sustainability presents for understanding what constitutes effective corporate governance. The module will relate corporate governance to ideas about: corporate strategy and profitability, value creation, responsibility and accountability; corporate ownership, investor behaviour and stewardship; company purpose and the role of business in society. By the end of the module students will have developed a critical awareness of: types of corporate control and ownership; internal and external mechanisms of corporate governance; the role and effectiveness of boards of directors; governance codes, and varieties of corporate governance and they relate to varieties of capitalism and business systems; failures of corporate governance; changing corporate governance to meet the sustainability challenges.