Sources of Stakeholder Salience in the Responsible Investment Movement: Why Do Investors Sign the Principles for Responsible Investment?

52 Pages Posted: 30 Aug 2014 Last revised: 17 Jun 2020

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Arleta Majoch

University of Reading - ICMA Centre

Andreas G. F. Hoepner

Smurfit Graduate Business School, University College Dublin; European Commission - DG FISMA

Tessa Hebb

Carleton Centre for Community Innovation

Date Written: August 26, 2014

Abstract

Using five years of internal proprietary data collected directly from United Nations supported Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) signatories, we examine the attributes of the stakeholder relationship between the PRI and investment organizations. The analysis is carried out in the framework of Mitchell et al.’s (1997) theory of stakeholder salience and its further developments by Gifford (2010).

The findings highlight pragmatic legitimacy, organizational legitimacy, power attributes and management values as the factors having the most impact on the salience of the claim to sign the PRI in the eyes of investors.

Keywords: stakeholder salience theory, Principles for Responsible Investment, PRI, UNPRI, responsible investment, socially responsible investment, stakeholder theory

Suggested Citation

Majoch, Arleta and Hoepner, Andreas G. F. and Hebb, Tessa M., Sources of Stakeholder Salience in the Responsible Investment Movement: Why Do Investors Sign the Principles for Responsible Investment? (August 26, 2014). Journal of Business Ethics, Forthcoming, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2487351 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2487351

Arleta Majoch (Contact Author)

University of Reading - ICMA Centre ( email )

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Andreas G. F. Hoepner

Smurfit Graduate Business School, University College Dublin ( email )

Blackrock, Co. Dublin
Ireland

European Commission - DG FISMA ( email )

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Brussels, 1000
Belgium

Tessa M. Hebb

Carleton Centre for Community Innovation ( email )

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DT 2125
Ottawa, Ontario K1S0R2
Canada

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