Trends in the literature on socially responsible investment: looking for the keys under the lamppost

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2012Indexation documentaire
Economie financièreSubject
Socially and responsible investment; investissement socialement responsable; corporate social responsibility; responsabilité sociale des entreprises; business ethics; éthique des affaires; financial performance; performance financière; greenwashing; altruism; altruisme; pro-social choice; choix pro-sociauxCode JEL
A.A1.A13; G.G1.G11; G.G1.G12; G.G2.G20; M.M1.M14Nom de la revue
Business EthicsVolume
21Numéro
3Date de publication
2012Pages article
239-250Nom de l'éditeur
WileyCollections
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Capelle-Blancard, Gunther
15080 Centre d'économie de la Sorbonne [CES]
Monjon, Stéphanie
255365 Laboratoire d'Economie de Dauphine [LEDa]
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Résumé en anglais
In this paper, we use online search engines and archive collections to examine the popularity of socially responsible investing (SRI) in newspapers and academic journals. A simple content analysis suggests that most of the papers on SRI focus on financial performance. This profusion of research is somewhat puzzling as most of the studies used roughly the same methodology and obtained very similar results. So, why are there so many studies on SRI financial performance? We argue that the academic literature on SRI is mostly data driven: the famous ‘looking for the keys under the lamppost’ syndrome. The question of the financial performance of the SRI funds is certainly relevant but maybe too much attention has been paid to this issue, whereas more research is needed on a conceptual and theoretical ground, in particular the aspirations of SRI investors, the relationship between regulation and SRI as well as the assessment of extra-financial performances.Related items
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