IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/pal/palchp/978-0-230-23575-5_3.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

Explaining the Take-Off of Socially Responsible Investment

In: Finance for a Better World

Author

Listed:
  • Pasquale Arena

Abstract

The interest with which academics, politicians, companies and the wider community are observing ethics and socially responsible investment demonstrates how relevant this issue has become. We are living through a complex cultural process which is trying to overcome the dualism of ethics and finance. Hence, academic literature has been paying more and more attention to the exploration of the relationship between finance, ethics and society, especially over the last few years. At the same time, companies and practitioners are testing new corporate social strategies. Nowadays, the role of the government is changing; both government and community need more help from companies. While companies are committed to developing socially responsible investment, ethics emerges as the most powerful instrument of moral legitimacy for companies, able to stimulate stakeholders’ participation and help both companies and stakeholders to move towards the common good.

Suggested Citation

  • Pasquale Arena, 2009. "Explaining the Take-Off of Socially Responsible Investment," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Henri-Claude Bettignies & François Lépineux (ed.), Finance for a Better World, chapter 3, pages 30-50, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-23575-5_3
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230235755_3
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-23575-5_3. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.palgrave.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.