Dow Jones Sustainability Group Index: A Global Benchmark for Corporate Sustainability

By I. Knoepfel. 2001

187 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Accounting, Sociology and Political Science, Strategy and Management

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In Accounting

1. M. Soana
2. M. Fenchel
3. Roland W. Scholz
4. Thomas Koellner
5. Yongqiang Gao
6. Dima Jamali
7. O. Weber
8. H. Smid

In Sociology and Political Science

1. M. Soana
2. Roland W. Scholz
3. Yongqiang Gao
4. Dima Jamali
5. O. Weber

In Strategy and Management

1. O. Weber
2. Yongqiang Gao
3. Dima Jamali
4. M. Fenchel
5. Roland W. Scholz
6. M. Soana
7. Thomas Koellner
8. Juelin Yin

Citations in the corpus

• Principles for sustainability rating of investment funds (2005, background): “For the reasons given, an assessment of companies within their class alone (best-in-class approach; see, e.g., Knoepfel, 2001 ) is not sufficient.”
• Insights into triple bottom line integration from a learning organization perspective (2006, methodology): “The environmental component addresses primarily the impacts of processes, products and service on the environment, biodiversity and human health while the social element encompasses workplace health and safety, working conditions, human rights issues, and labor rights (Knoepfel, 2001; GRI, 2003).”
• Bundles of Firm Corporate Governance Practices: A Fuzzy Set Analysis (2013, unknown): “…review for the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes (DJSI) by SAM Group.1 SAM Group is an independent asset management group that provides annual assessments of economic, environmental, and social performance of the Dow Jones Global Index universe since 1999 (Cerin & Dobers, 2001; Knoepfel, 2001).”
• The Relationship Between Corporate Social Performance and Corporate Financial Performance in the Banking Sector (2011, background): “Finally, of the most recent quantitative studies that proxy social performance using a multidimensional indicator (ethical rating), seven (Graves and Waddock 2000; Griffin and Mahon 1997; Berman et al. 1999; Johnson and Greening 1999; Ruf et al. 2001; Knoepfel 2001; Van de Velde et al. 2005) suppo”
• Assessing the sustainability performances of industries (2005, background): “Stakeholders and society have been defined as two of the five key corporate sustainability performance principles [35].”
• CSR in an emerging country: a content analysis of CSR reports of listed companies (2011, background): “Another pressure comes from investment rating systems such as the Dow Jones Sustainability Index, the Community’s Corporate Responsibility Index and the FTSE4 Good Index, because banks, insurance companies and various funds make their investments in terms of such indexes (Knoepfel, 2001), especially”