This book chapter discusses financial intermediation of socially responsible investments in the primary market and sketches a new asset class: Responsible Private Equity (RPE). The authors identify the characteristics of RPE and how it could satisfy certain classes of responsible investors,...

We explore how corporate social responsibility (CSR) can contribute to the security of the firm, looking at the mechanisms that can help a socially responsible firm to achieve outcomes – such as firm legitimacy, stakeholder satisfaction, and perception of fairness – that can be useful in...

This paper investigates the factors affecting the success of a SP in terms of people employed. Our research covers the population of SPs in Europe (215 in total). We start with a brief focus on some definitional issues. After that, we discuss the underlying determinants that the literature...