Corporate Sustainability and Shareholder Returns: The Role of Business Impact Maturity

This publication builds on the GOLDEN Sustainability Dataset. It addresses the important question of whether there is a trade off between sustainability and profitability as many sustainability critics try to make believe us. The question has been studied for decades with conflicting results. But now enabled by the results of the analysis of the GOLDEN Sustainability Dataset this publication breaks new ground by connecting the type of corporate sustainability strategies and behaviour with shareholder returns. In this report the researchers at the Leonardo Centre at Imperial:

  • Share the key features of the data used for the analysis of portfolio risks and returns based on the characteristics of company sustainability initiatives.
     
  • Leverage that data to empirically test a range of propositions related to the impact of sustainability behaviour on risk-adjusted returns. 
     
  • Propose a complete Business Impact Maturity (BIM) model to evaluate Company sustainability performance, including the purpose, strategic, organisational and cultural elements of maturity.
     
  • Distil the key insights emerging from the results of the analyses and conceptual developments into key implications for different stakeholder groups including businesses, investors and financial institutions,  policymakers and international institutions.

Download the full report here.

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