A Puzzle in SRI: The Investor and the Judge

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. Gover...

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Authors: Leys, Jos (Author) ; Vandekerckhove, Wim (Author) ; Van Liedekerke, Luc (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Springer Science + Business Media B. V 2009
In: Journal of business ethics
Year: 2009, Volume: 84, Issue: 2, Pages: 221-235
Further subjects:B Justice
B Investment Decision
B organisational policy
B organisational malpractice
B Socially Responsible Investment
B Professionalism
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