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Chief sustainability officers : who are they and what do they do?

Perkins, Kathleen Miller; Serafeim, George - 2014

sustainability over time, we know little about the role of the Chief Sustainability Officer (CSO) in this process. Using survey and … sustainability commitment. We document increasing organizational authority of the CSO as organizations increase their commitment to … sustainability moving from Compliance to Efficiency and then to Innovation. However, we also document a decentralization of decision …

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ESG Assurance in the United States

Gipper, Brandon; Ross, Samantha; Shi, Shawn X. - 2022

We provide the first, large sample evidence on firms’ voluntary, third-party verification of environmental and social metrics in ESG reports (“ESG assurance”) in the United States. Focusing on S&P 500 firms from 2010-2020, we document a striking increase in ESG assurance. Unlike financial...

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The Effect of CSR on Stock Performance: New Evidence for the USA and Europe

von Arx, Urs; Ziegler, Andreas - 2008

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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The effect of CSR on stock performance : new evidence for the USA and Europe

Arx, Urs von; Ziegler, Andreas - 2008

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A Triptych Inquiry: Rethinking Sustainability, Innovation, and Financial Performance

Busch, Timo; Stinchfield, Bryan T.; Wood, Matthew S. - 2011

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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The Rise of U.S. Food Sustainability Litigation

Tai, Steph - 2014

movement and its rising use of litigation. In particular, it focuses on two growing areas of food sustainability litigation … legal avenues fail to mesh with the values of the food sustainability movements. This article concludes by drawing from … studies of other historical movements and argues that the food sustainability movement, if it is to succeed in transforming …

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German and US Investment Professionals’ Use of Corporate Social Responsibility Disclosures in Their Personal Investment Decisions and Recommendations to Clients

Arnold, Markus C. - 2020

We examine whether and how German and US investment professionals use corporate social responsibility (hereafter, CSR) information when making personal investment decisions and recommendations to clients. Using an experiment, we find that both German and US investment professionals use CSR...

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Corporate Social and Financial Performance in Chemical Industry in the United States

Rahman, Jahidur Md - 2020

The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of corporation social performance (CSP) on corporate financial performance (CFP). This study uses return on assets (ROA) to measure corporate financial performance. This study uses KLD index and TRI index to measure corporate social...

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Private Retirement Systems and Sustainability : Insights from Australia, the UK, and the US

Working Papers, PRC; Fabian, Nathan; Homanen, Mikael; … - 2023

Retirement system sustainability is defined as the ability of plan boards and managers to be responsible investors …

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Water quality protection of the Canada-US Great Lakes : examining the emerging state/nonstate governance approach

Martin, Madeleine; Webb, Kernaghan - In: International journal of innovation & sustainable … 14 (2020) 1, pp. 102-124

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