From Preaching to Investing: Attitudes of Religious Organisations Towards Responsible Investment

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 110, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 301-320

  Louche, Céline ^a   Arenas, Daniel ^b   van Cranenburgh, Katinka C ^b  

^a VLERICK BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Belgium)

^b ESADE BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Spain)

Author keywords

Faith consistent investing; Impact investing; Negative screening; Positive screening; Religion; Responsible investment; Shareholder engagement

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867097744     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-011-1155-8     Document Type: Article

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