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Bert Scholtens
Researcher at University of Groningen
Publications - 210
Citations - 9362
Bert Scholtens is an academic researcher from University of Groningen. The author has contributed to research in topics: Corporate social responsibility & Socially responsible investing. The author has an hindex of 45, co-authored 207 publications receiving 7678 citations. Previous affiliations of Bert Scholtens include Andrews University & DSM.
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The stocks at stake: Return and risk in socially responsible investment.
TL;DR: This paper found that socially responsible investing (SRI) impacts on stock returns by lowering the book-to-market ratio and not by generating positive alphas, which is consistent with the theoretical work suggesting that SRI is reflected in demand differences between SRI and non-SRI stock.
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Corporate Social Responsibility in the International Banking Industry
TL;DR: In this article, a framework was developed to assess the social responsibility of international banks and applied this framework to more than 30 institutions and found significant differences among individual banks, countries, and regions.
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Power to the people: Local community initiatives and the transition to sustainable energy
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate what is happening at the local community level towards realizing these ambitions from a social perspective, and find that especially the development of a shared vision, the level of activities and the type of organisation are important factors of the strength of the local network.
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Finance as a Driver of Corporate Social Responsibility
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the transmission mechanisms between finance and sustainability and find that there is no simple one-to-one relationship between financial development and sustainable development but there are various indirect linkages.