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Approaching Socially Responsible Investment with a Comprehensive Ratings Scheme: Total Social Impact

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The socially responsible investment industry (SRI) is slowly changing from a screening, avoidance paradigm to a comprehensive paradigm that seeks to affect corporate behavior. Credible rating systems are a key component of this sea change. Reliable and recognizable social and environmental metrics are critical to this progress. The Total Social Impact (TSI) rating approach is a new social metric scheme based on a comprehensive rating of stakeholder issues. This paper describes the evolution of SRI ratings and the role that TSI hopes to play in affecting business behavior by promoting principled business leadership.

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  1. Summit Investment Partners, 312 Elm Street, Suite 1212, Cincinnati, Ohio, 45202, U.S.A

    Stephen Dillenburg

  2. Total Social Impact Foundation, 114 Lincoln Court, Nashville, Tennessee, 37025, U.S.A

    Timothy Greene

  3. Henry W. Bloch School of Business and Public Administration, University of Missouri-Kansas City, U.S.A

    O. Homer Erekson

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  1. Stephen Dillenburg
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Dillenburg, S., Greene, T. & Erekson, O.H. Approaching Socially Responsible Investment with a Comprehensive Ratings Scheme: Total Social Impact. Journal of Business Ethics 43, 167–177 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1022987127960

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