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27Promoting international dialogue between fundamental and applied ethicsEthical Perspectives 24 (2004): 01-2014. 2003.
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13A Puzzle in SRI: The Investor and the JudgeJournal of Business Ethics 84 (2): 221-235. 2009.As Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) enters the mainstream of professional and institutional investment practice, some perplexities arise. Some SRI market participants are well schooled in finance but are hesitative as to how to apply non-financial criteria in the management of portfolios. Governments too are giving SRI more attention and, in some countries, are discussion whether and how to regulate the SRI market. Advocacy groups are targeting SRI projects through media campaigns using pol…Read more
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9A Speech-Act Model for Talking to Management. Building a Framework for Evaluating Communication within the SRI Engagement ProcessJournal of Business Ethics 82 (1): 77-91. 2008.Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) has grown considerably over the past three decades. One form of SRI, engagement-SRI, is today by far the most practiced form of SRI (in assets managed) and has the potential to mainstream SRI even further. However, lack of formalized engagement procedures and evaluation tools leave the engagement practice too opaque for such a mainstreaming. This article can be considered as a first step in the development of a standard for the engagement practice. By develo…Read more
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23A Puzzle in SRI: The Investor and the JudgeJournal of Business Ethics 84 (2). 2009.As Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) enters the mainstream of professional and institutional investment practice, some perplexities arise. Some SRI market participants are well schooled in finance but are hesitative as to how to apply non-financial criteria in the management of portfolios. Governments too are giving SRI more attention and, in some countries, are discussion whether and how to regulate the SRI market. Advocacy groups are targeting SRI projects through media campaigns using pol…Read more
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32Editorial introductionPhilosophica 80 (3): 211-212. 2007.This introduction to the special issue on information asymmetries in socially responsible investment introduces the concept of information asymmetries and offers an overview of how such information asymmetries pertain to SRI. We first point out that all Abanking@, in its different metiers, always is concerned with information asymmetries. That introductory concept is succeeded by an overview of the different metiers in banking. We try to diminish a general information asymmetry regarding the fin…Read more
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5Ethics in Finance (review)Ethical Perspectives 16 (4): 511-514. 2009.Book Reviewed in this article Financial Decision‐Making and Moral Responsibility. Edited by Stephen Frowen and Francis P. McHugh
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9Post Scripta–An Owl's ViewIn Wim Vandekerckhove, Jos Leys, Kristian Alm, Bert Scholtens, Silvana Signori & Henry Schäfer (eds.), Responsible Investment in Times of Turmoil, Springer. pp. 221. 2011.
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7A Puzzle in SRI: Stakeholders in the MistPhilosophy of Management 8 (3): 81-96. 2009.‘Stakeholder’ and related notions have been coined to enhance managerial practice in mainstream corporations. Currently, these notions are abundantly present in all kinds of discourses, especially those on ‘socially responsible investing’. But what kind of stakeholder management are these socially responsible investors promoting and what might be reasonable expectations about outcomes? We find that they promote an approach that has shareholder value as motivation and legitimisation and that they…Read more
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27Having a Look at the Effectiveness of SRI-endeavoursPhilosophica 80 (2): 121-130. 2007.This paper, an epilogue to the special issue on socially responsible investment, is a first attempt to philosophically tackle information asymmetries that pertain to the consequences or the effectiveness of SRI-policies. The paper discerns four types or techniques of SRI: 1) shareholder engagement; 2) the selection of best-in-class entities; 3) the maintenance of categorical exclusions; 4) the financing of alternative economies. For each technique, the paper first briefly sketches the mechanism …Read more
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Sandra Waddock and Charles Bodwell, Total Responsibility Management. The Manual (review)Ethical Perspectives 14 (2): 212-215. 2007.
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11Responsible Investment in Times of Turmoil (edited book)Springer. 2011.This book is the first to question the future of SRI in such a radical way.
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Jennifer Gunning and Seuren Holm, Ethics, Law and Society (review)Ethical Perspectives 14 (1): 102-102. 2007.
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25A Puzzle in SRI: Stakeholders in the MistPhilosophy of Management 8 (3): 81-96. 2009.‘Stakeholder’ and related notions have been coined to enhance managerial practice in mainstream corporations. Currently, these notions are abundantly present in all kinds of discourses, especially those on ‘socially responsible investing’. But what kind of stakeholder management are these socially responsible investors promoting and what might be reasonable expectations about outcomes? We find that they promote an approach that has shareholder value as motivation and legitimisation and that they…Read more
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20A Speech-Act Model for Talking to Management. Building a Framework for Evaluating Communication within the SRI Engagement ProcessJournal of Business Ethics 82 (1). 2008.Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) has grown considerably over the past three decades. One form of SRI, engagement-SRI, is today by far the most practiced form of SRI (in assets managed) and has the potential to mainstream SRI even further. However, lack of formalized engagement procedures and evaluation tools leave the engagement practice too opaque for such a mainstreaming. This article can be considered as a first step in the development of a standard for the engagement practice. By develo…Read more
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15David M. Anderson (ed): Leveraging. A Political, Economic and Societal FrameworkPhilosophy of Management 15 (2): 171-173. 2016.
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74That's not what happened and it's not my fault anyway! An exploration of management attitudes towards Sri-shareholder engagementBusiness Ethics: A European Review 16 (4). 2007.This paper explores semi‐formal interactions between SRI‐investors that take the governance route rather than deploy a best‐in‐class logic or exclusionary screening. On the basis of a stakeholder typology of the investor and of the chosen topic of interaction, namely compliance with the core ILO labour conventions, the paper formulates 10 expectations about management reactions to the concerns raised by investors. These expectations cover responsiveness, acknowledgment of positions and general a…Read more
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Malcolm Murray , Liberty, Games, and Contracts. Jan Narveson and the Defense of Libertarianism (review)Ethical Perspectives 14 (2): 216-218. 2007.