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Finance for a Better World

The Shift Toward Sustainability

Palgrave Macmillan

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Henri-Claude de Bettignies, François Lépineux
      Pages 1-4
  3. Microfinance and Socially Responsible Investment: Evolution and Impact on Human Rights

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 5-5
    2. Microfinance; Financial Inclusion and Social Responsibility

      • Isabelle Guérin, Marc Roesch, Jean-Michel Servet
      Pages 7-29
  4. Adopting a Sustainable Perspective in Financial Institutions and Markets

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 89-89
    2. Sustainable Banking: the Banco Real Model

      • Leo Johnson, Christel Scholten
      Pages 91-117
    3. Insurers’ Corporate Responsibility Policies: a Response to the Industry’s Bad Image?

      • Henri-Claude de Bettignies, François Lépineux, Cheon Kheong Tan
      Pages 118-139
    4. The Relative Valuation of Socially Responsible Firms: an Exploratory Study

      • Ali Fatemi, Iraj J. Fooladi, David Wheeler
      Pages 140-167
  5. Is a Paradigm Shift Underway? Three Pioneering Reflections

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 187-187
    2. Financialization: Limits and Ways Out

      • Paul Dembinski, Federica Viganò
      Pages 225-239
    3. Conclusion: Manifesto for Finance that Serves the Common Good

      • Observatoire de la Finance
      Pages 240-243
  6. Back Matter

    Pages 244-258

About this book

What has prompted the shift toward sustainability in numerous financial areas? Can investors' mindsets be changed to embrace a long-term view? Can shareholders and activists play a greater role in encouraging financial actors to behave more responsibly? These are some of the relevant topics that are explored in this forward-looking set of essays.

Editors and Affiliations

  • CEIBS, Shanghai, China

    Henri-Claude Bettignies

  • Center for Responsible Business, Rennes School of Business, France

    François Lépineux

About the editors


HENRI-CLAUDE DE BETTIGNIES is the EU Chair Distinguished Professor of Global Governance and China-Europe Business Relations at CEIBS, Shanghai, China, where he has created the Euro-China Centre for Leadership and Responsibility (ECCLAR). He is also the AVIVA Chair Emeritus Professor of Leadership and Responsibility and Emeritus Professor of Asian Business at INSEAD, France. Between 1988 and 2005, with a joint appointment at Stanford University (Graduate School of Business), USA, he shared his time equally between Europe, California and the Asia Pacific region. Professor de Bettignies started the development of the Ethics initiative at INSEAD, and pioneered a new approach (AVIRA) to enlighten business leaders. Over a 16 year period the AVIRA programme brought together 900 Chairmen and CEOs from 60 countries, keen to enrich their vision and enhance their 'responsible' leadership competence. He teaches MBAs, E-MBAs and executives at CEIBS, in the areas of ethics and CSR, HR management and corporate transformation, culture and management. He directs a number of executive (public or corporate) programmes in Europe and in Asia.
 
FRANÇOIS LÉPINEUX is Research Fellow at INSEAD, Professor and Head of the Center for Responsible Business at ESC Rennes School of Business, Brittany, France. After graduating from HEC Paris School of Management in 1990, he has carried on various research and consulting activities, and received a PhD in Management Science at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (CNAM, Paris). He is co-author of the book Sustainable Development and Corporate Governance (2003, in French) and has produced a number of other publications. His areas of interest include the relationship between business activities and the search for the common good, ethical issues in the financial services industry and stakeholder theory, the emergence of a global civil society and the shift in the social contract. François Lépineux is co-founder and past-President (2002-2005) of ADERSE (Association pour le Développement de l'Enseignement et de la Recherche sur la Responsabilité Sociale de l'Entreprise), the French academic association for the development of education and interdisciplinary research on CSR.

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