Institutional Investors' Power to Change Corporate Behavior

Young S. - La Trobe University, Australia Gates S. - Audencia Nantes School of Management, France

• List of Tables.List of Figures. List of Contributors. Editorial Advisory and Review Board. About the Editors. About the Authors. Acknowledgments. Institutional investors’ power to change corporate behavior: An introduction. Organizing the collective action of institutional investors: Three case studies from the principles for responsible investment initiative. Responsible investment, ESG, and institutional investors in Australia. Corporate climate change disclosure practices and regulation: The influence of institutional investors. Financialization of corporate ownership and implications for the potential for climate action. Social and environmental shareholder resolutions: Investor activism and corporate compromises. Institutional investors, firm performance, and the prospects for socially responsible investing: Evidence from New Zealand. Strategic responses to new institutional pressures: The case of institutional investor activism in France. Institutional investors: Active ownership through nomination committees. Banking foundations and the CSR of Italian listed banks: The case of Monte dei Paschi di Siena. The development of SRI in China. Institutional investor support for climate change resolutions: A new challenge to capitalism or co-opted activism?. The role of social performance in microfinance investment decisions. ESG: From negative screening to human capital analysis. A motivation puzzle: Can investors change corporate behavior by conforming to ESG pressures?. Proactive investor relations: How corporations respond to pressures from social responsibility investors. Institutional investors’ power to change corporate behavior: International perspectives. Critical Studies on Corporate Responsibility, Governance and Sustainability. Institutional investors’ power to change corporate behavior: International perspectives. Copyright page.