7 Socially Responsible Investment SRI and Sustainability
7 Socially Responsible Investment SRI and Sustainability
AND SOCIAL
RESPONSIBILITY
UNIT IV:
Business Beyond Profit
Motivation
LESSON 13
Socially Responsible
Investment (SRI) and
Sustainability
Lesson Objectives
• To define socially responsible investment (SRI)
• To explain ethical banking
• To explain Economy of Communion enterprises
• To explain impact investing
What Are Social Enterprises?
These are organizations whose mission is to
bridge social opportunity into sustainable reality
innovatively, effectively, and efficiently.
It has to be noted that there This suggests that firms that
is no incompatibility between act in a socially irresponsible
the economic and social or illegal manner have
motives of sustainable social decreasing shareholder
enterprises: there is more wealth, implying that socially
and more empirical evidence responsible and law abiding
showing a correlation behavior pays off.
between social performance
and financial performance.
On Socially Responsible
Investments (SRIs)
They have a special role in alleviating poverty,
creating empowerment, and establishing
entitlement at the grassroots level of
socioeconomic development.