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The global financial crisis and ongoing concerns about climate change have placed the spotlight on new styles of investment that are socially responsible and environmentally aware. Recent worries about man-made environmental disasters, life-threatening product safety standards and poor corporate governance have been a driver of ‘Socially Responsible Investment’ (SRI) in Europe and North America, and similar concerns are now growing in Asia. As in the West, these are accompanied by wider interest in the social and environmental impact of corporate activity, both positive and negative, and the extent to which these can be influenced or controlled by investors.
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Useful references to SRI can be found in R Sullivan and C McKenzie (eds), Responsible Investment (Sheffield, UK: Greenleaf Publishing, 2006);
MJ Kiernan, Investing in a Sustainable World: Why GREEN is the New Color of Money on Wall Street (New York, NY: AMACOM, 2009);
C Krosinsky and N Robins (eds), Sustainable Investing: The Art of Long Term Performance (London, UK: Earthscan Publications, 2008).
An early discussion of various forms of SRI can be found in R Sparkes, Socially Responsible Investment: A Global Revolution (London, UK: Wiley, 2003).
See, for example, J Roche, Corporate Governance in Asia (London, UK: Routledge, 2005)
X Jia and R Tomasic, Corporate Governance and Resource Security in China: The Transformation of China’s Global Resources Companies (London, UK: Routledge, 2009).
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Williams, G. (2011). Sustainable and Responsible Investment in Asia. In: Williams, G. (eds) Responsible Management in Asia. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230306806_15
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