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Where do-gooders meet bottom-liners: Disputes and resolutions surrounding socially responsible investment

2014; Emerald Publishing Limited; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1108/s2043-9059_2014_0000007005

2043-9067

Christel Dumas, Emmanuelle Michotte,

Management and Organizational Studies

Purpose Much of the management research on socially responsible investment (SRI) consists in demonstrating how SRI is good for business and good for society. But the belief that business and market-based strategies will bring positive social and ecological change is far from natural and results in disputes. This study shows how SRI proponents have to develop and combine arguments in order to construct and defend a valid and plausible discourse on SRI that could resist the critiques and appease the disputes resulting from its institutionalization.