Call for proposals for a new Greenleaf Publishing book series on
Responsible Investment
General Editor: Dr Rory Sullivan (Head of Responsible Investment,
Insight Investment)
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In 2006, Greenleaf published the ground-breaking collection
'Responsible Investment', edited by Rory Sullivan and Craig Mackenzie.
In response to the very positive feedback we have received on this
volume, and given the central importance of investors in ensuring high
standards of corporate governance and corporate responsibility as well
as the wider importance of the capital markets to sustainable
development, we have decided to establish the Greenleaf Responsible
Investment Series.
The series aims to provide a forum for outstanding empirical and
theoretical work in all aspects of responsible investment. It will
seek to explicitly integrate theory about responsible investment with
management practice, providing a forum where the tensions and
practical realities of responsible investment can be addressed in a
readable, robust, and conceptually and empirically rigorous format.
The series will publish the best ideas and research on responsible
investment in a manner that is accessible, engaging, interesting and
useful for readers in business, consultancy, government, NGOs and
academia.
The scope of the series is deliberately broad, reflecting the breadth
of issues, strategies and actors involved. We welcome proposals/
publications on all aspects of responsible investment, including but
not limited to:
* Responsible investment strategies (engagement, voting, screening,
investment integration, etc.), examining question such as the
investment performance of different investment strategies and the
environmental, social and governance outcomes that have been achieved.
* Responsible investment in different asset classes (equities, fixed
income, commodities, government debt, private equity, hedge funds,
fund-of-fund strategies, etc.)
* Responsible investment by different actors (e.g. pension funds,
asset managers, sovereign wealth funds, private equity funds,
insurance companies). This could include consideration of the
strategies adopted, the outcomes achieved, the political context
within which responsible investment has been implemented, the barriers
to action, and the manner in which organisational issues (beliefs,
resources, capacities) have been addressed.
* Responsible investment in different geographical regions, and how
geography, politics and economics influence the shape, form and
outcomes from responsible investment.
* Investor collaboration, focusing on how collective initiatives such
as the Carbon Disclosure Project, the UN Principles for Responsible
Investment and PharmaFutures have functioned and the environmental,
social and governance outcomes they have delivered.
* The public policy implications of responsible investment. This could
include analysis of the role of investors in public policy processes,
and the policy contribution of self-regulatory initiatives such as the
UN Principles for Responsible Investment.
* Responsible investment and fiduciary duty. This could include
analysis of issues such as investor time horizons, governance issues
within the investment chain or obstacles to mainstreaming responsible
investment.
* Stakeholders' views on responsible investment, including examples of
where stakeholders have sought to harness the capital markets to
deliver on their specific campaigning objectives.
* The role of responsible investment in responding to specific
environmental, social or governance issues. This could be analysed
thematically (e.g. climate change, executive remuneration, responsible
banking, development/poverty alleviation, human rights) or could be a
wider look at the role of the capital markets in the global financial
crisis.
* The changing investment landscape. For example, what are the wider
implications of mainstreaming responsible investment (e.g. will
investors' expectations coalesce around lowest-common-denominator
approaches), and how will the move from defined benefit to defined
contribution affect the market for responsible investment?
We welcome proposals for both authored books and edited collections.
We are also interested in proposals/abstracts for case studies or
stand-alone articles. These may be considered for dedicated issues of
the 'Journal of Corporate Citizenship', or for specific collections in
this series.
Once we have received these materials, we will initiate a review
process and aim to provide a detailed response as quickly as
practicable.
For more details and the full proposal guidelines, go here:
http://www.greenleaf-publishing.com/default.asp?contentid=90
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"Responsible Investment" Edited by Rory Sullivan and Craig Mackenzie
382 pp | 234 x 156 mm | hardback
| ISBN 978-1-874719-03-8 | Published February 2006
Do responsible investment strategies systematically result in
improvements in the social, ethical and environmental performance of
companies? To what extent is it in investors' interest to encourage
higher standards of corporate responsibility? Do responsible
investment strategies enhance financial performance for investors?
"[The] editors are to be applauded ... for corralling such a wide-
ranging, intelligent, and experienced group of writers."
Bill Baue
"This is a book that no professional, academic, or student with an
interest in the emerging field of responsible investment will want to
be without."
Ethical Performance
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