The Challenge of Ethical Investment: Activism, Assets and Analysis

Russell Sparkes

Chapter 8 in The Role of Business Ethics in Economic Performance, 1998, pp 141-170 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The concept of a challenge implies something provoking a response, and such a title illustrates two widely held but misleading views of ethical investment: that it is confrontational and concerned with simple, negative, avoidance activity. The question of ‘avoidance’ will be dealt with later, but ‘challenge’ generates in the mind’s eye a picture of people asking awkward questions at a company’s annual general meeting, if not actually demonstrating outside it. However, that is shareholder activism, which needs to be carefully distinguished from ethical investment. The two grew up at the same time, and many of the people involved were the same, but over time they have diverged to such an extent that they can be classified as separate types of activities. The subtitle, activism, assets and analysis, refers to three aspects of the subject which seem particularly deserving of further consideration.

Keywords: Business Ethic; Corporate Governance; Pension Fund; Fund Manager; Investment Fund (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1998
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230379794_8

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