Acknowledgments

Institutional Investors’ Power to Change Corporate Behavior: International Perspectives

ISBN: 978-1-78190-770-2, eISBN: 978-1-78190-771-9

ISSN: 2043-9059

Publication date: 21 October 2013

Citation

(2013), "Acknowledgments", Institutional Investors’ Power to Change Corporate Behavior: International Perspectives (Critical Studies on Corporate Responsibility, Governance and Sustainability, Vol. 5), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, p. xxvii. https://doi.org/10.1108/S2043-9059(2013)0000005008

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Copyright © 2013 Emerald Group Publishing Limited


We would like to thank all those that have engaged with and contributed to this volume. In particular the individual chapter authors deserve praise and thanks for engaging so willingly with this project. All chapters were anonymously peer reviewed and we would like to thank all the reviewers for their time, effort, and professionalism that have ensured the quality and consistency of the contributions. The reviewers of the volume chapters are:

  • Gordon Boyce, Associate Professor, La Trobe Business School, La Trobe University

  • Tim Cadman, Adjunct lecturer, Australian Centre for Sustainable Business and Development University of Southern Queensland

  • Thomas Clarke, Professor of Management & Director of the Center for Corporate Governance, University of Technology, Sydney

  • Julie Cotter, Professor Julie Cotter (PhD) is the Deputy Director of the Australian Centre for Sustainable Business and Development, a research centre of the University of Southern Queensland (USQ)

  • Adrian Henriques, Visiting Professor, Department of Business and Management, Middlesex University, UK

  • Céline Lelouche, Associate Professor, Audencia Nantes School of Management

  • Paul Manning, Director of MSc Management Programmes, Management School, University of Liverpool UK

  • Loretta O’Donnell, Associate Dean, Education, for the Australian School of Business at the University of New South Wales, in Sydney, Australia

  • John Shields, Professor & Associate Dean, Faculty of Economics and Business, the University of Sydney, Australia

  • Andrew Pendleton, Professor of Human Resources, York University, UK,

  • David Russell, Head of Department of Accounting & Finance, Leicester Business School, De Montfort University, UK

  • Jim Stewart , Professor of HRD & Leadership, Coventry Business School, Coventry University, UK

  • Christoph Van der Elst, Professor of Law, Law School, Tilburg University, The Netherlands

Institutional investors’ power to change corporate behavior: International perspectives
Critical studies on corporate responsibility, governance and sustainability
Institutional investors’ power to change corporate behavior: International perspectives
Copyright page
List of tables
List of figures
List of contributors
Editorial advisory and review board
About the Editors
About the Authors
Acknowledgments
Institutional investors’ power to change corporate behavior: An introduction
Organizing the collective action of institutional investors: Three case studies from the principles for responsible investment initiative
Responsible investment, ESG, and institutional investors in Australia
Corporate climate change disclosure practices and regulation: The influence of institutional investors
Financialization of corporate ownership and implications for the potential for climate action
Social and environmental shareholder resolutions: Investor activism and corporate compromises
Institutional investors, firm performance, and the prospects for socially responsible investing: Evidence from New Zealand
Strategic responses to new institutional pressures: The case of institutional investor activism in France
Institutional investors: Active ownership through nomination committees
Banking foundations and the CSR of Italian listed banks: The case of Monte dei Paschi di Siena
The development of SRI in China
Institutional investor support for climate change resolutions: A new challenge to capitalism or co-opted activism?
The role of social performance in microfinance investment decisions
ESG: From negative screening to human capital analysis
A motivation puzzle: Can investors change corporate behavior by conforming to ESG pressures?
Proactive investor relations: How corporations respond to pressures from social responsibility investors