An Empirical Examination of Institutional Investor Preferences for Corporate Social Performance

By Paul Cox, Stephen Brammer, A. Millington. 2004

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Subfields: Accounting, Strategy and Management

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In Accounting

1. Lammertjan Dam
2. Saverio Bozzolan
3. Carmen Juravle
4. Tariq Aziz
5. Barbara J. Sainty
6. A. Lewis
7. Michele Fabrizi
8. P. Dunn

In Strategy and Management

1. Lammertjan Dam
2. Bert Scholtens
3. Saverio Bozzolan
4. Carmen Juravle
5. Tariq Aziz
6. Barbara J. Sainty
7. A. Lewis
8. Michele Fabrizi

Citations in the corpus

• Corporate Social Responsibility and Earnings Quality: International Evidence (2015, methodology): “On the basis of the theoretical contribution of Carroll (1979) and empirical work carried out by Johnson and Greening (1999) and Cox et al. (2004) on the multidimensional nature of CSR, we make use of an aggregate CSR measure that takes into consideration a range of important issues across…”
• Corporate Social Performance and Stock Returns: UK Evidence from Disaggregate Measures (2006, unknown): “Cox et al. (2004) and Graves and Waddock (1994) suggest, using UK and US data respectively, that poor corporate social performance leads to a reduction in the number of long-term institutional investors holding the firm’s stock since such firms are likely to be “screened out”.”
• Does Ownership Type Matter for Corporate Social Responsibility (2012, methodology): “This data is also used for the FTSE4Good sustainability indices and in, for example, Dam, Scholtens, and Sterken (2007). In CSR research, many studies use the wellknown KLD dataset. However, this dataset covers US firms only. The EIRIS dataset covers many aspects of CSR for over 2,600 firms globally”
• The risk-adjusted return potential of integrating ESG strategies into emerging market equities (2018, result): “…revealed in this study is consistent with the findings of many other studies, such as Capelle-Blancard and Monjon (2012), Humphrey and Tan (2014), Cox, Brammer, and Millington (2004) and Johnson and Greening (1999), and affirms the notion that ESG investments may provide an opportunity for…”
• The Impact of Board Gender Diversity and Foreign Institutional Investors on the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Engagement of Chinese Listed Companies (2019, background): “Moreover, previous studies also support this view [10,69,70].”
• Ethical requirement and financial interest: a literature review on socially responsible investing (2015, result): “Contrary to the results of Friedman and Miles (2001), Cox et al. (2004) find ‘‘at best’’ a limited influence of regulatory actions on the consideration of SRI in pension funds.”
• The Role of CEO’s Personal Incentives in Driving Corporate Social Responsibility (2014, methodology): “On the basis of the theoretical contribution of Carroll (1979) and empirical work carried out by Johnson and Greening (1999) and Cox et al. (2004) on the multidimensional nature of CSR, we make use of both an aggregate CSR measure that takes into consideration a range of important issues across…”
• The Effect of Corporate Governance Elements on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Disclosure: An Empirical Evidence from Listed Companies at KSE Pakistan (2015, background): “Cox, Brammer and Millington (2004) [42] examine the institutional ownership pattern in the UK and its link with CSR behavior of firms.”