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institution (the “sustainability footprint”) and examine the relation between sustainability footprints and risk …-adjusted investment performance. The analysis shows that 13F institutions with better sustainability footprints outperform. The positive … effect of sustainability footprints on the risk-adjusted performance of 13F institutions' equity portfolios is concentrated …
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sustainability impacts of their public policy positions. To enable such assessments, firms need to become as transparent about their …
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Management scholars have sought to answer the question: is there a financial payoff for ad-dressing ecological and social issues? We move beyond this question and include a time com-ponent for corporate financial performance (CFP) and a firm’s innovativeness in order to ask: when does it pay?...
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Passion - in the sense of fervent commitment to action - and compassion - understood as sensitive openness for social and ecological concerns - are not a sure formula for business success. Whether social or ecological entrepreneurs, who find themselves under pressure from market competition,...
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Reporting to Sustainability Reporting, impose to pay attention to new criteria and contents, also in order to distinguish … Sustainability, like the institutional ones (MDG, SDG, BES) and one of the most widespread standard of non financial reporting … SDGs, to implement coherent public and enterprise's policies and to produce realistic sustainability reports. The …
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This paper empirically examines the effect of the inclusion in one of the most prominent sustainability stock indexes …, namely the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index (DJSI World), on corporate financial performance. On the basis of panel data … to biased parameter estimates and thus to premature conclusions with respect to the impact of corporate sustainability …
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This paper provides new empirical evidence for the effect of corporate social responsibility (CSR) on corporate financial performance. In contrast to former studies, we examine two different regions, namely the USA and Europe. Our econometric analysis shows that environmental and social...
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regulatory landscape governing ESG investments, and conducts a sustainability evaluation of a set of corporate entities. It uses … from a voluntary regime to a mandatory one. Finally, the sustainability assessment of a select set of corporate entities … sustainability and neglect social dimensions, both in their declarations and in their implementations. …
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We investigate the relationship between corporate and country sustainability on the cost of bank loans. We look into … operating in all major industries. Our principal findings reveal that country sustainability related to both social and … of one unit in country sustainability scores is associated with an average decrease in the costs of debt by 64 basis …
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Private investors are an increasingly important voice in sustainability challenges. We examine investors' attitudes and …
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