A Critical Review of Sustainable Business Indices and their Impact

By Stephen J. Fowler, Chris Hope. 2007

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Subfields: Finance, Marketing, Strategy and Management

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Citations in the corpus

• Accounting for the environment: Towards a theoretical perspective for environmental accounting and reporting (2010, background): “This has extended to the stock markets with the launch of sustainable indices on the Dow Jones in the US and the FTSE in the UK (Fowler & Hope, 2007).”
• A Bibliometric and Visualization Analysis of Socially Responsible Funds (2019, background): “Fowler and Hope [41], “A critical review of sustainable business indices and their impact”, explores the performance of sustainable mutual funds and indices, and also examines the methodologies employed in compiling the main sustainable indices.”
• Can Sustainable Investment Yield Better Financial Returns: A Comparative Study of ESG Indices and MSCI Indices (2019, background): “Additionally, Fowler and Hope (2007) highlight that the entry of the Dow Jones and FTSE (the FTSE4Good sustainable market indices launched by Financial Times Stock Exchange Group) in the market of sustainable responsible indices and the increase in index licensees, indicate the growing interest of…”
• Does the stock market value the inclusion in a sustainability stock index? An event study analysis for German firms (2013, unknown): “As a consequence, the reliability of the inclusion in these two stock indexes as a real indicator for higher corporate sustainability performance can be put into question (e.g., Fowler and Hope, 2007), so that strong eputation gains also remain doubtful.”
• Does the Market Respond to an Endorsement of Social Responsibility? The Role of Institutions, Information, and Legitimacy (2010, background): “Fowler and Hope (2007) reviewed literature on socially screened indices and the impact on both the firm and investors of the firm’s inclusion in a social index.”
• The Value Relevance of Reputation for Sustainability Leadership (2014, background): “in terms of CSP (Fowler and Hope 2007).”
• On the comparative performance of socially responsible and Islamic mutual funds (2014, methodology): “A large part of investment from SRI funds is directed toward small companies with lower dividend yields (Fowler and Hope, 2007).”