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Sustainable finance as a contested concept: tracing the evolution of five frames between 1998 and 2018

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  • Andreas Dimmelmeier

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Sustainable finance has received increasing attention over the last years. Nonetheless, the meaning of the term remains ambiguous. This article approaches this ambiguity by understanding sustainable finance as a contested concept, whose meaning has been subject to varying interpretations. To map these interpretations, the article offers an inductive analysis of the network of actors that concern themselves with sustainable finance. Actors’ competing interpretations of sustainable finance can be conceptualised as frames. Using network analysis and interviews I identify five frames that are present in three periods between 1998 and 2018. Distinct communities advance a Socially Responsible Investment frame, a risks and opportunities frame, a climate finance frame, a critical frame and an integrated frame. Describing the emergence of these frames, their position in the network and their relations to each other can add to our understanding of sustainable finance as it complements existing authoritative classifications and histories of the topic.

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  • Andreas Dimmelmeier, 2023. "Sustainable finance as a contested concept: tracing the evolution of five frames between 1998 and 2018," Journal of Sustainable Finance & Investment, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 13(4), pages 1600-1623, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:jsustf:v:13:y:2023:i:4:p:1600-1623
    DOI: 10.1080/20430795.2021.1937916
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