In this paper, we use online search engines and archive collections to examine the popularity of socially responsible investing (SRI) in newspapers and academic journals. A simple content analysis suggests that most of the papers on SRI focus on financial performance. This profusion of research...

This paper gives an account of a study of the emergence of SRI in France. This research aims at understanding the process favouring the integration of SRI within financial market. We focus on the role of mutual funds. The interpretation is elaborated with legitimacy theory, more precisely with...

Social regulation of the « socially responsible investment » market (SRI), a recently developed market characterized by an original combination of financial and non-financial, « sustainable development » principles, is studied. Analysis of the history of this market and the structure of...

Socially Responsible Investing (SRI) enjoys a large consensus and is often presented as being able to conciliate finance and sustainable development. Actually, the SRI market share stays low (slightly more than 10%), not to say very low if we consider only “Core SRI” (very few percent). Its...

Despite the discourses on SMEs benefits for implementing CSR strategy, despite the growing number of CSR related tools addressing this issue, SMEs are poorly involved in CSR strategic approach. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the drivers and the blocks of CSR integration into SMEs...

Le cas français est exemplaire en tant qu'exception dans une économie globalisée : l'injonction étatique pour un "rendre compte social" complet coexiste avec les réticences explicites et implicites du monde des affaires et la divulgation des informations sociales restent plus empreinte par...