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Corporate sustainability ratings: an investigation into how corporations use the Dow Jones Sustainability Index
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“the application process is time-consuming, requiring a significant commitment to complete (Searcy and Elkhawas, 2012)”
From Strategic Silence: Withholding Certification Status as a Hypocrisy Avoidance Tactic (2018) · cites this paper as Searcy and Elkhawas, 2012
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“inclusion on the index can increase perceptions of legitimacy among socially conscious investors and enhance their brands or reputations more generally, all factors that can help to maintain or improve the firm's competitive position among its industry peers (Searcy and Elkhawas, 2012)”
From Strategic Silence: Withholding Certification Status as a Hypocrisy Avoidance Tactic (2018) · cites this paper as Searcy and Elkhawas, 2012
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Drempetic, S., Klein, C., & Zwergel, B. (2019) · Journal of Business Ethics · doi:10.1007/s10551-019-04164-1 · Cited by 1,802
“Searcy and Elkhawas (2012) provide insights through a survey, that Canadian corporations use signaling with the Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI) also for reputable reasons.”
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Clementino, E., & Perkins, R. (2020) · Journal of Business Ethics · doi:10.1007/s10551-020-04441-4 · Cited by 492
“Some noteworthy examples are the Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI), the FTSE4Good Index, and the MSCI ESG Indices (Searcy and Elkhawas 2012).”
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“…Index with companies in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI) that ‘‘both firms and investors believe that strategies that take sustainability criteria into account have the capacity to create long-term value’’ (for an analysis how companies use the DJSI see e.g. Searcy and Elkhawas 2012).”
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Can Sustainable Investing Save the World? Reviewing the Mechanisms of Investor Impact
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“There are two studies, however, that investigate whether companies that were included in a sustainability index decided subsequently to communicate their inclusion to stakeholders (Carlos & Lewis, 2018; Searcy & Elkhawas, 2012).”
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- Authors
- Searcy, C., & Elkhawas, D.
- Affiliations
- Toronto Metropolitan University (CA)
- Corresponding author
- Searcy, Cory
- ORCID
- Searcy, Cory
- Venue
- Journal of Cleaner Production
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2012-11
- Volume
- 35
- Pages
- 79-92
- ISSN
- 0959-6526 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2089325011
- Cited by
- 245
- References
- 77
- Citations by year
- 2026: 10 · 2025: 10 · 2024: 16 · 2023: 16 · 2022: 17 · 2021: 37 · 2020: 23 · 2019: 24 · 2018: 26 · 2017: 14 · 2016: 19 · 2015: 15 · 2014: 6 · 2013: 12
- FWCI
- 29.32
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Cleaner Production (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Strategy and Management › Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Marketing › Environmental Sustainability in Business
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Management of Technology and Innovation › Sustainability and Innovation in Business
- Keywords
- Dow Jones Sustainability Index, corporate sustainability ratings, sustainability index, Canadian firms, sustainability reporting, sustainability rating agencies, corporate transparency, stakeholder engagement
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