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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825462203321

Autore

Hebb Tessa

Titolo

No small change : pension funds and corporate engagement / / Tessa Hebb

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ithaca, : ILR Press/Cornell University Press, 2008

ISBN

0-8014-6020-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (165 p.)

Disciplina

332.67/2540973

Soggetti

Pension trusts - Investments - United States

Investments - Moral and ethical aspects - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Understanding pension fund corporate engagement -- Intersecting interests -- The economic inefficiency of secrecy -- Why do they care? -- Global standards and emerging markets -- The way forward.

Sommario/riassunto

In No Small Change, Tessa Hebb examines the ability of pension funds, now the largest single driver of financial markets around the world, to use their ownership position to change corporate practices for the sake of the bottom line and, perhaps.