Corporate Social Responsibility: The Investor’s Perspective

Céline Louche ()

Chapter Chapter 11 in Professionals' Perspectives of Corporate Social Responsibility, 2009, pp 211-231 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Investors are increasingly realising that a proactive approach to the management of a firm’s social and environmental risks can result in considerable opportunities in both financial and sustainable value creation. This trend is being reflected in a significant increase in the number of corporations that are involved in what is called ‘Responsible Investment’ (RI) – that is approaches which integrate environmental, social, governance and ethical factors into investment processes. This chapter explores the investor’s perspective of the field of corporate social responsibility and more specifically on the practice of Responsible Investment (RI). The aim is threefold: firstly to provide a general background on Responsible Investment – definition, history, actors and trends, secondly, to give an overview of the existing practices of responsible investment and its key characteristics and finally to discuss some critical issues that may shape the future of RI. RI is still a developing and changing activity which is expected to keep growing in the future. But responsible investors can play a major role in transforming the concept of investing by integrating social and environmental dimensions whilst simultaneously pushing up the issue in a company’s CSR agenda.

Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility; Institutional Investor; Corporate Social Responsibility Activity; Corporate Social Performance; Responsible Investment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
Working Paper: Corporate Social Responsibility: The investor’s perspective (2009)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-642-02630-0_12

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.springer.com/9783642026300

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-02630-0_12

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Springer Books from Springer
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().