Linking Responsible Investments to Societal Influence: Motives, Assessments and Risks

摘要

This introduction of the special issue about responsible investments deals with the main theoretical, methodological and empirical challenges. It also highlights the key features of the papers in this special issue. IN THIS SPECIAL ISSUE ON SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE FINANCE AND INVESTMENT, WE PRESENT A SELECTION OF RECENT PAPERS. Several of these papers were delivered at the 15th International Sustainable Development Research Conference in Utrecht, the Netherlands, July 2009. Some were solicited after this conference. We were only able to select a small number of the papers offered. Although this might be disappointing for those who were rejected, it is good news from a scientific point of view, as it shows there is a lot of academic interest in doing research and publishing about socially responsible finance and investment. This special issue is the sequel to a previous special issue in Sustainable Development that resulted from the 13th International Sustainable Development Research Conference (see Scholtens et al, 2008).