Explores the practicalities of implementing responsible investment strategies; the outcomes that have been achieved; the practical issues and barriers faced; and the challenges to be faced if responsible investment is to become a mainstream investment approach. This book is for those involved in the...

We examine the ability of a socially responsible investment index to effect firms' compliance with best-practice climate-change management and the subsequent impact on their carbon emissions. Using a quasi-experimental setting involving an international sample of large public companies we show...

This paper provides results consistent with the proposition that engagement by and threat of deletion from a responsible investment index motivated persistent improvements to corporate environmental management practices, especially for firms where the threat of exclusion from the index was...

We analyse the FTSE4Good corporate social responsibility score of 1,825 firms in 25 countries and hypothesise that corporate social responsibility imposes costs on the firm’s owners, whereas benefits may only partially accrue to those owners or instead to various other stakeholders. Managers...