@Anita (and others interested in S), within the ESG Initiative, the Political Risk and Identity Lab with the financial support of the Norwegian Research Council, the Bay and Paul Foundations, EY and the Christensen Fund, focuses on the measurement of social and stakeholder preferences towards firms on a range of issues. Our belief is that the S encompasses employee, community, civil society and customer related issues (i.e., primary and secondar stakeholders' and their issues of concern). In a number of empirical studies, we show that these stakeholder preferences' are material for a range of societally and financially material issues opening an exciting new pathway for research by affiliated scholars.
For empirical work leveraging media monitoring showing the materiality of these issues and concerns, see papers that show
Look for more to come at the Organization Science winter conference presented by Anne Jamison, Strategy and Business Environment conference presented by Tony He and, we hope, AOM and SMS later in the year.
@Anita (and others interested in S), within the ESG Initiative, the Political Risk and Identity Lab with the financial support of the Norwegian Research Council, the Bay and Paul Foundations, EY and the Christensen Fund, focuses on the measurement of social and stakeholder preferences towards firms on a range of issues. Our belief is that the S encompasses employee, community, civil society and customer related issues (i.e., primary and secondar stakeholders' and their issues of concern). In a number of empirical studies, we show that these stakeholder preferences' are material for a range of societally and financially material issues opening an exciting new pathway for research by affiliated scholars.
For empirical work leveraging media monitoring showing the materiality of these issues and concerns, see papers that show
(1) media reported sentiment predicts conflict
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4573695
(2) media reported sentiment predicts sovereign bond prices
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4689763
(3) IFC projects promote conflict
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4540583
(4) Green energy projects promote conflict in conflict sensitive nations
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4726756
(5) Discourse on workplace issues and performance associated with higher financial performance
https://www.fcltglobal.org/wp-content/uploads/The-People-Factor-How-Investing-In-Employees-Pays-Off.pdf
(6) ESG factors influence municipal bond prices
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00076503231220541
(7) Firms' ability to build stakeholder relations relies on free and reliable media
https://journals.aom.org/doi/10.5465/amj.2021.0103
(8) Being timely, on topic, positive and rich in communications builds stakeholder relations
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10551-022-05063-8
(9) Identity groups and horizontal inequalities are a key and understudied construct in stakeholder relations
https://journals.aom.org/doi/abs/10.5465/amr.2019.0411?af=R
and
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/gsj.1430
(10) Firms sustainability strategies align with the issues emphasized by powerful, urgent, and legitimate stakeholders in their home country
https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/abs/10.1287/orsc.2020.1380
Look for more to come at the Organization Science winter conference presented by Anne Jamison, Strategy and Business Environment conference presented by Tony He and, we hope, AOM and SMS later in the year.