The Field of Social Investment

This book is concerned with the theory and practice of social investment as a profession.

Severyn T. Bruyn (Author)

9780521407762, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 25 January 1991

320 pages, 9 b/w illus. 7 tables
23 x 15.4 x 2.1 cm, 0.435 kg

' … it is enormously useful in bringing together the various scattered research projects concerned with financial investment.' Sociology

This book is concerned with the theory and practice of social investment as a profession. It offers a conceptual foundation for investment policy and research, and reviews empirical studies supporting new directions in investment policies. It also provides guidelines for trustees, based on the best available knowledge of corporate behaviour, and presents researchers with key hypotheses to follow in gathering data for the evaluation of social investment norms. A unique study, it provides the basis for defining social investment as a field of knowledge.

Preface
Part I. The Idea of Social Investment: 1. The meaning of social investment
2. The activity of social investment
3. A theory of social investment
Part II. Social Criteria and Research: 4. Social investment in business corporations
5. Social investment in industry: a new social policy
6. Social research on industrial policy
7. Investment in community development
Part III. Global Social Investment: 8. International investment
9. Social development in the Third World
Epilogue: social investment as a self-correcting movement in the market system
Notes
Bibliography
Name index
Subject index.

Subject Areas: Social theory [JHBA]