Corporate activity promotes economic growth. This has obvious benefits for society, yet by placing unsustainable demands on natural resources, it also poses serious problems. Part of the response to this should be clarity over corporate responsibility and accountability towards the environment,...

In this paper we use interview data to explore the 'new shareholder activism' of mainstream UK institutional investors. We describe contemporary practices of corporate governance monitoring and engagement and how they vary across institutions, and explore the motivations behind them. Existing...