Does an asset owner's institutional setting influence its decision to sign the principles for responsible investment?

From a simple idea to unite asset owners in their quest for responsible investment (RI) at its launch in April 2006, the United Nations supported Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) have grown in just one decade into an initiative with more than 1500 fee-paying signatories. Jointly, the PRI’...

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Authors: Hoepner, Andreas G. F. (Author) ; Majoch, Arleta A. A. (Author) ; Zhou, Xiao Y. (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Springer Science + Business Media B. V 2021
In: Journal of business ethics
Year: 2021, Volume: 168, Issue: 2, Pages: 389-414
Further subjects:B Institutional Theory
B Pension funds
B Aufsatz in Zeitschrift
B Principles for responsible investment (PRI)
B Asset owners
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