Purpose – To show how social enterprises can take advantage of the growing ethical awareness of financial institutions to finance their work whilst remaining true to their social principles. Design/methodology/approach – The concept of financial intermediation and the growing ethical...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify the factors that may influence a consumer to pay a premium for a product or service communicating ethical information. Design/methodology/approach – A survey was administered to 77 subjects and a conceptual model of five specific...

The social responsibility concept has a dramatic dynamics in the last decades taking in account typology of economic agents involved: transnational corporations, small and medium enterprises and portfolio investors. In this paper, we analyze the development of environment, social and governance...

Purpose – Socially responsible investment (SRI) is now a well established part of equities investment. Questions are now being raised over property investment and whether similar attempts to be “socially responsible” should be incorporated into investment practice. This paper aims to...