Позитивные изменения. Том 3, № 4 (2023). Positive changes. Volume 3, Issue 4(2023)

5. SUSTAINABLE INVESTING WITH ESG — VARIABLES IMPACTING INDIVIDUAL INVESTOR DECISIONS

P. Makhija, E. Chacko, M. Kukreja, S. Agarwal

Paper, October 2023

SDMIMD Journal of Management

Lately, global investors have shifted their focus from pure financial activity to impact investing. In addition to economic reasons, many investors worldwide are interested in corporate efforts addressing global issues such as climate change, work equity, and eradicating poverty. Millennials, according to polls, are more likely to purchase a product from a firm with a favorable environmental and social standing. Investors are seriously contemplating ESG investment opportunities with the notion that companies that adhere to ethical, environmental, social, and regulation practices have access to financial services. ESG investing has increased in India in recent years. However, this could only be the beginning, and more investor understanding of the concept and benefits of ESG investment in emerging markets is required. In light of the above context, the objective of this research was to understand better investors’ opinions regarding ESG activities and how they influence their investment decisions. Our findings confirmed that investors’ attitudes influenced by ESG Perception lead to investment decisions, and ESG activities can help moderate the relationship between ESG activities and investment decisions.

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6. AN ECONOMIC VIEW OF CORPORATE SOCIAL IMPACT

H. Allcott, G. Montanari, B. Ozaltun, B. Tan

Paper, October 2023

Social Science Research Network

The growing discussions of impact investing and stakeholder capitalism have increased interest in measuring companies’ social impact, not just their profits. Authors conceptualize corporate social impact as the social welfare loss that would be caused by a firm’s exit in equilibrium. Then they quantify the social impacts of 73 large firms in 12 industries. Researchers field a new survey measuring people’s willingness to substitute away from the firms they buy from and work for. Authors use the survey data to estimate product market and labor market models and simulate counterfactual equilibria after a firm’s exit. A key result is that consumer surplus is the most important component of firms’ social impact, dwarfing profits (because they overwhelmingly accrue to wealthy people with low social marginal welfare weights), worker surplus, and externalities. Existing impact rating systems have little correlation with our economics-based metric.

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7. IMPACT FINANCE: HOW SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL QUESTIONS ARE ADDRESSED IN TIMES OF FINANCIALIZED CAPITALISM

Eve Chiapello

Paper, July 2023

Review of Evolutionary Political Economy

This article discusses the growth and different guises of impact finance. Impact investing, social impact bonds, blended finance, and venture philanthropy all share the aim of directing private money in search of a financial return towards “impactful” projects or businesses. The association between the concept of social (or environmental) impact and finance was forged in public debate after the 2008 financial crisis, and has enabled the development of a whole ecosystem of actors (evaluators, consultants, asset managers, dedicated associations and forums, training programs, etc.) promising a new kind of finance, capable of producing both financial and social returns. Eve Chiapello argues that despite the growth of this ecosystem, its proposals are unable to meet social and environmental needs and are in fact reinforcing neoliberal financialized capitalism. First, they confer legitimacy on financial actors by giving the impression that with appropriate incentives, such actors are capable of responding to social and environmental issues with no need for major institutional changes.

Second, they contribute to the capture by financial actors of public money earmarked for those issues. The two cases of social impact bonds and impact investing are discussed to illustrate these phenomena and the futility of these practices.

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8. HOW IMPACT INVESTING FUNDS INVEST IN SOCIAL-PURPOSE ORGANIZATIONS: A CROSS-COUNTRY COMPARISON

Alice Borrello, Irene Bengo, Michael Moran

Paper, September 2023

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management