Drivers of socially responsible investing: A case study of four Nordic countries

B Scholtens, R Sievänen - Journal of business ethics, 2013 - Springer
In this study, we try to establish what determines the substantial differences in the Nordic
countries' size and composition of socially responsible investing (SRI). We investigate if …

The drivers of responsible investment: The case of European pension funds

R Sievänen, H Rita, B Scholtens - Journal of business ethics, 2013 - Springer
We investigate what drives responsible investment of European pension funds. Pension
funds are institutional investors who assure the income of part of the population for a long …

From struggle in responsible investment to potential to improve global environmental governance through UN PRI

R Sievänen, J Sumelius, KMZ Islam, M Sell - … Agreements: Politics, Law …, 2013 - Springer
This article introduces an exploratory framework which, on a conceptual level, suggests that
the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment can contribute to the accessibility …

Practicalities bottleneck to pension fund responsible investment?

R Sievänen - Business Ethics: A European Review, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
We found that pension funds may face a bottleneck as practical impediments to engaging in
responsible investment with respect to the role played by defining and implementing …

Charity ethical investments in Norway and the UK: A comparative institutional analysis including the impact of a sovereign wealth fund

N Kreander, K McPhail, V Beattie - Accounting, Auditing & …, 2015 - emerald.com
Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to explore whether, how and why ethical investment
practices of charities differ between two countries with quite different ideological and …

An analysis of sovereign wealth and pension funds' ethical investment guidelines and their commitment thereto

OA Jensen, P Seele - Journal of Sustainable Finance & Investment, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Sovereign wealth and pension funds make use of investment guidelines as they invest for
substantial part public money also, and thus, are subject to greater public scrutiny and …

Remarks on lydenberg's “reason, rationality and fiduciary duty”

NS Eccles - Journal of business ethics, 2018 - Springer
In his 2014 paper entitled “Reason, Rationality and Fiduciary Duty”, Lydenberg ventures into
the field of the moral and political philosophy dealing with distributive justice in search of …

'The dark side of the moon': a theoretical framework of complicity applied to the Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global

K Alm - Journal of Sustainable Finance & Investment, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
This article analyses the risks associated with the Norwegian Government Pension Fund
Global's (NGPFG) complicity in the violation of foreign citizens and their human rights as …

A puzzle in SRI: the investor and the judge

J Leys, W Vandekerckhove, L Van Liedekerke - Journal of business ethics, 2009 - Springer
Abstract As Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) enters the mainstream of professional
and institutional investment practice, some perplexities arise. Some SRI market participants …

The non-response of pension funds to climate change and human rights

R Sievänen - Journal of Sustainable Finance & Investment, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Our analysis suggests that pension funds face challenges when they implement into practice
the usual definition of responsible investment: the integration of environmental, social and …