Call for proposals for a new Greenleaf Publishing book series
Responsible Investment
General Editor: Dr Rory Sullivan (Head of Responsible Investment, Insight Investment)
In 2006, Greenleaf published the ground-breaking collection Responsible Investment, edited by Rory Sullivan and Craig Mackenzie. In response to the very positive feedback we have received on this volume, and given the central importance of investors in ensuring high standards of corporate governance and corporate responsibility as well as the wider importance of the capital markets to sustainable development, we have decided to establish the Greenleaf Responsible Investment Series.
The series aims to provide a forum for outstanding empirical and theoretical work in all aspects of responsible investment. It will seek to explicitly integrate theory about responsible investment with management practice, providing a forum where the tensions and practical realities of responsible investment can be addressed in a readable, robust, and conceptually and empirically rigorous format. The series will publish the best ideas and research on responsible investment in a manner that is accessible, engaging, interesting and useful for readers in business, consultancy, government, NGOs and academia.
The scope of the series is deliberately broad, reflecting the breadth of issues, strategies and actors involved. We welcome proposals/publications on all aspects of responsible investment, including but not limited to:
* Responsible investment strategies (engagement, voting, screening, investment integration, etc.), examining question such as the investment performance of different investment strategies and the environmental, social and governance outcomes that have been achieved.
* Responsible investment in different asset classes (equities, fixed income, commodities, government debt, private equity, hedge funds, fund-of-fund strategies, etc.)
* Responsible investment by different actors (e.g. pension funds, asset managers, sovereign wealth funds, private equity funds, insurance companies). This could include consideration of the strategies adopted, the outcomes achieved, the political context within which responsible investment has been implemented, the barriers to action, and the manner in which organisational issues (beliefs, resources, capacities) have been addressed
* Responsible investment in different geographical regions, and how geography, politics and economics influence the shape, form and outcomes from responsible investment
* Investor collaboration, focusing on how collective initiatives such as the Carbon Disclosure Project, the UN Principles for Responsible Investment and PharmaFutures have functioned and the environmental, social and governance outcomes they have delivered
* The public policy implications of responsible investment. This could include analysis of the role of investors in public policy processes, and the policy contribution of self-regulatory initiatives such as the UN Principles for Responsible Investment
* Responsible investment and fiduciary duty. This could include analysis of issues such as investor time horizons, governance issues within the investment chain or obstacles to mainstreaming responsible investment
* Stakeholders’ views on responsible investment, including examples of where stakeholders have sought to harness the capital markets to deliver on their specific campaigning objectives
* The role of responsible investment in responding to specific environmental, social or governance issues. This could be analysed thematically (e.g. climate change, executive remuneration, responsible banking, development/poverty alleviation, human rights) or could be a wider look at the role of the capital markets in the global financial crisis
* The changing investment landscape. For example, what are the wider implications of mainstreaming responsible investment (e.g. will investors’ expectations coalesce around lowest-common-denominator approaches), and how will the move from defined benefit to defined contribution affect the market for responsible investment?
We welcome proposals for both authored books and edited collections. We are also interested in proposals/abstracts for case studies or stand-alone articles. These may be considered for dedicated issues of the Journal of Corporate Citizenship or Greener Management International, or for specific collections in this series.
Once we have received these materials, we will initiate a review process and aim to provide a detailed response as quickly as practicable.
More details and proposal guidelines
Limited offer: 40% discount
Offer ends 31st May 2009
