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The Challenge of Ethical Investment: Activism, Assets and Analysis

In: The Role of Business Ethics in Economic Performance

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  • Russell Sparkes

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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.

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  • Russell Sparkes, 1998. "The Challenge of Ethical Investment: Activism, Assets and Analysis," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Ian Jones & Michael Pollitt (ed.), The Role of Business Ethics in Economic Performance, chapter 8, pages 141-170, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-37979-4_8
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230379794_8
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    1. Elsayed, Khaled & Wahba, Hayam, 2013. "Reinvestigating the relationship between ownership structure and inventory management: A corporate governanceperspective," International Journal of Production Economics, Elsevier, vol. 143(1), pages 207-218.
    2. Hayam Wahba, 2010. "How do institutional shareholders manipulate corporate environmental strategy to protect their equity value? A study of the adoption of ISO 14001 by Egyptian firms," Business Strategy and the Environment, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 19(8), pages 495-511, December.
    3. Katherina Glac, 2009. "Understanding Socially Responsible Investing: The Effect of Decision Frames and Trade-off Options," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 87(1), pages 41-55, April.
    4. Hayam Wahba, 2008. "Exploring the moderating effect of financial performance on the relationship between corporate environmental responsibility and institutional investors: some Egyptian evidence," Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 15(6), pages 361-371, November.
    5. Ian Jones & Michael Pollitt, 1999. "The Development of Ethical Issues Facing Boards of Directors: A Model with Implications," Working Papers wp151, Centre for Business Research, University of Cambridge.

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