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Shareholder engagement: prospects for improving corporate social responsibility

Southwood, Peter - In: International Journal of Business Performance Management 5 (2003) 2/3, pp. 223-236

This paper is based on research into four case studies of shareholder engagement on issues of socially responsible investment. The background to the wider study of which it forms a part is explained before the main contours of the debate on shareholder activism, in theory and practice, are...

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Theoretical Aspects of Development of Socially Responsible Investing in Ukraine

Ivashchenko, Alla - In: Accounting and Finance (2014) 3, pp. 90-95

The article addresses the theoretical aspects of raising the level of socially responsible investing in Ukrainian companies for the purpose of implementation of the system of corporate social responsibility. Founded are the advantages of implementing the corporate social responsibility in the...

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The interactive financial effects between corporate social responsibility and irresponsibility

Oikonomou, Ioannis; Brooks, Chris; Pavelin, Stephen - Henley Business School, University of Reading - 2012

Firms typically present a mixed picture of corporate social performance (CSP), with positive and negative indicators exhibited by the same firm. Thus, stakeholders’ judgements of corporate social responsibility (CSR) typically evaluate positives in the context of negatives, and vice versa. We...

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Fund Loyalty Among Socially Responsible Investors: The Importance of the Economic and Ethical Domains

Peifer, Jared - In: Journal of Business Ethics 121 (2014) 4, pp. 635-649

The corporate social responsibility literature has emphasized the importance of both economic and ethical domains of corporate behavior. Analyzing unprecedented survey data from investors in a socially responsible (SR) mutual fund, this article considers how economic and ethical concerns shape...

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Socially Responsible Investing: An Investor Perspective

Berry, Thomas; Junkus, Joan - In: Journal of Business Ethics 112 (2013) 4, pp. 707-720

Given the growing importance of Socially Responsible Investing (SRI), it is surprising that there is no consensus of what the term SRI means to an investor. Further, most studies of this question rely solely on the views of investors who already invest in SRI funds. Our study surveys a unique...

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Understanding Socially Responsible Investing: The Effect of Decision Frames and Trade-off Options

Glac, Katherina - In: Journal of Business Ethics 87 (2009) 1, pp. 41-55

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Socially responsible investing: sustainability indices, ESG rating and information provider agencies

Escrig-Olmedo, Elena; Munoz-Torres, Maria Jesus; … - In: International Journal of Sustainable Economy 2 (2010) 4, pp. 442-461

provider agencies (ESG IPAs). These organisations study companies in terms of sustainability, that is, economic, social … overview about the different criteria for evaluation used by sustainability indices and ESG agencies. The sample comprises a … group of six sustainability indices and ten ESG agencies. The importance of the sustainability indices and ESG agencies is …

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Measuring the social responsibility discount for the cost of equity capital: evidence from benefit corporations

Everett, Craig R. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

In 2010, Maryland became the first state to allow firms to incorporate as “benefit corporations,” which are for-profit entities with a social purpose. Since then, nineteen other states have followed. Using survey data from the population of 94 benefit corporations existent at the time of the...

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Employee Satisfaction, Labor Market Flexibility, and Stock Returns Around The World

Edmans, Alex; Li, Lucius; Zhang, Chendi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

We study the relationship between employee satisfaction and abnormal stock returns around the world, using lists of the … investing (“SRI”) strategies around the world. In particular, they emphasize the importance of taking institutional features …

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Does Corporate Social Responsibility Deliver Alpha?

Yen, Meng-Feng; Lin, Jia-Hui; Sun, Yu-Ting - In: Journal of Economics and Management 11 (2015) 1, pp. 23-45

well as low CSR-rated portfolios. The ESG rating is contained in KLD STATS. Although the study shows that portfolios of …

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