ESG investing: A chance to reduce systemic risk

R Cerqueti, R Ciciretti, A Dalò, M Nicolosi - Journal of Financial Stability, 2021 - Elsevier
We consider a network of equity mutual funds characterized by different levels of compliance
with Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) aspects. We measure the impact of …

Breaking free from the limitations of classical test theory: Developing and measuring information systems scales using item response theory

T Rusch, PB Lowry, P Mair, H Treiblmaier - Information & Management, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract Information systems (IS) research frequently uses survey data to measure the
interplay between technological systems and human beings. Researchers have developed …

Corporate sustainability and stock value in Asian–Pacific emerging markets: synergies or tradeoffs among ESG factors?

P Budsaratragoon, B Jitmaneeroj - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
We use structural equation modelling to examine whether multi-dimensional corporate
sustainability (CS)—measured by environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors …

Understanding the impact of CSR domain on brand relationship quality

A Shankar, R Yadav - Marketing Intelligence & Planning, 2021 - emerald.com
Purpose The study investigates the impact of corporate social responsibility (CSR) domain
on millennials' brand relationship quality (BRQ). It also attempts to understand how the …

A latent variable analysis of corporate social responsibility and firm value

B Jitmaneeroj - Managerial Finance, 2018 - emerald.com
Purpose Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has several dimensions that are inherently
unobservable or measured with errors. Due to measurement errors of CSR proxies …

The performance of social responsible investing from retail investors' perspective: international evidence

G Badía, L Ferruz, MC Cortez - International Journal of Finance …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
This paper investigates the performance of socially responsible investment (SRI) portfolios
compared to conventional investments. Adopting a retail investor's perspective, we provide …

The Most Important Theory in Corporate Law is Useless: Agency Cost Theory Explains Anything and Predicts Nothing

BC Tingle - Berkeley Bus. LJ, 2024 - HeinOnline
Agency cost theory provides the conceptual scheme most often used to understand the
governance of corporations and the proper relationship of various corporate actors. It is, by …

A new measure of the resilience for networks of funds with applications to socially responsible investments

R Cerqueti, R Ciciretti, A Dalò, M Nicolosi - Physica A: Statistical Mechanics …, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper provides a novel resilience measure of a family of networks in terms of stability of
its community structure. To this aim, we assign to each node a probability distribution and …

Socially (ir) responsible investing? The performance of the VICEX Fund from a business cycle perspective

A Soler-Domínguez, JC Matallín-Sáez - Finance Research Letters, 2016 - Elsevier
We assess the performance of the VICEX Fund, which lies at the opposite end of the
spectrum to socially responsible mutual funds (SRMF). This fund is morally controversial due …

Analysis of the dimensions of corporate social responsibility: study applied to co-operativism in Ecuador

F González Santa Cruz, I Loor Alcívar… - Social Indicators …, 2020 - Springer
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) involves activities carried out by businesses based on
the principles of transparency, ethical, moral and environmental values. Despite the growing …