Robust Corporate Social Responsibility investment screening

Ecological Economics

Volumn 69, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1159-1169

  Van den Bossche, Filip ^a,b   Rogge, Nicky ^a,b   Devooght, Kurt ^a,b   Van Puyenbroeck, Tom ^a,b  

^a HOGESCHOOL UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Asset selection; Composite indicators; Corporate Social Responsibility; Robustness analysis

Indexed keywords

INVESTMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; RANKING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

BELGIUM;

EID: 77649274214     PISSN: 09218009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2009.12.012     Document Type: Article

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