Responsible Investment Banking Risk Management Frameworks, Sustainab
This book provides evidence on the relevance of environmental and social factors in decision making. It discusses the Gold Standard Frameworks for integrating extra-financial risks into the philosophy, culture, strategies, products and value chain managem
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Karen Wendt Editor
Responsible Investment Banking Risk Management Frameworks, Sustainable Financial Innovation and Softlaw Standards
CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance
Series Editors Samuel O. Idowu, London, United Kingdom Rene´ Schmidpeter, Cologne Business School, Germany
More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/11565
Karen Wendt Editor
Responsible Investment Banking Risk Management Frameworks, Sustainable Financial Innovation and Softlaw Standards
Editor Karen Wendt Responsible Investmentbanking Groebenzell Germany
ISSN 2196-7075 ISSN 2196-7083 (electronic) CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance ISBN 978-3-319-10310-5 ISBN 978-3-319-10311-2 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-10311-2 Library of Congress Control Number: 2014952679 Springer Cham Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Printed on acid-free paper Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Foreword
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) in its general sense expects all modern corporate entities to help society to solve all its social, economic and environmental problems regardless of whether or not they were instrumental in creating these problems in the first place. This we believe is a reasonable expectation which no one now argues with, even those who are still sceptical about the desirability of CSR. Behaving responsibly has never been more desirable in our world than it is today for many reasons. First, we live in a global economy where any little mishap in one particular nation state may result in serious consequences in all the 196 countries that presently make up our world, and the recent financial crisis is the evidence for saying that. Second, globalisation has meant that trade and culture of the world’s nations are now well integrated with free flow of goods, services, capital and people between these
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