Volume 22, 2011
Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Annual Meeting
Jean-Pascal Gond, Céline Louche, Rieneke Slager, Carmen Juravle, Camilla Yamahaki
Pages 524-531
The Institutional and Social Contruction of Responsible Investment
This paper provides a summary of the symposium on the institutional and social construction of Responsible Investment (RI), held at the 22nd IABS conference. In the context of the symposium, we propose to move beyond the dominant focus on the financial impact of RI to consider the potential of emergent institutional and sociological perspectives to explain the practices and concepts related to RI. In doing so, our aim is to explore in greater detail the current changes in the RI infrastructure and the impact of these changes on wider issues of corporate sustainability and social responsibility.