Nieuws

An increasing number of companies make sustainability investments, and an increasing number of investors integrate sustainability performance data in their capital allocation decisions. To date however, the prior academic literature has not distinguished between investments in material versus immaterial sustainability issues. We develop a novel dataset by hand-mapping data on sustainability investments classified as material […] ... lees meer

De ‘Duurzame Ontwikkelingsdoelen’ van de Verenigde Naties moeten beter meetbaar en concreter worden gemaakt. Dat schreven 40 wetenschappers onder auspiciën van het ‘International Council for Science’ en het ‘International Social Science Council’ in een review dat zij op 18 februari presenteerden bij de VN in New York. Duurzame Ontwikkelingsdoelen De Millenniumdoelstellingen lopen af in 2015. Ze […] ... lees meer

The greenness of a product has become increasingly important to consumers, but how do they decide how green a product is in the first place? A new study in the Journal of Marketing suggests that consumers believe that products with central rather than peripheral recycled features are greener (even when they are not). “The greenness […] ... lees meer