Financial and social performance of socially responsible investments in the Netherlands

Corporate Governance: An International Review

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1090-1105

  Scholtens, Bert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Banks; Corporate governance; Corporate social responsibility; Financial markets; Investment funds; Performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 37149006800     PISSN: 09648410     EISSN: 14678683     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8683.2007.00633.x     Document Type: Article

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