Drawing on the movements of corporate social responsibility, socially responsible investing and sustainable development, this title examines the making of financial reality towards social responsibility and sustainability, and offers an understanding of finance as a collective construct and endeavour embedded in societal context.

List of Tables. List of Figures. List of Contributors. Editorial Advisory and Review Board. Acknowledgements. Finance and Sustainability: Exploring the Reality we are Making. Towards a Fiduciary Capitalism Perspective on Business Ethics. ‘Corporate Social Responsibility’: A New Regulation of Capitalism? An Institutionalist Interpretative Framework of CSR, Based on the French Experience. CSR and ‘Best Interests of the Corporation’: New Purpose for Corporations and Managers? A Comparative View from North American and European Corporate Law. Changing the Dominant Convention: The Role of Emerging Initiatives in Mainstreaming ESG. Activism in European Pension Funds: Exerting Pressure on Intermediaries. Drivers of Socially Responsible Investment in the French Financial Market. The Experimental Approach to Trust in Socially Responsible Investment Funds. The Strategy and Fundamentals of Sustainable Finance Serving Sustainable Development. In what Conditions can Venture Capital and Social Justice Co-Exist? A Case Study of a French Venture Capital Fund Investing Ethically in Africa. Cooperative Finance and Sustainability After the Financial Crisis. Effects of Financialization on Restructuring and Sustainable Development Policy: The Accor Group Case. Dynamic Systems, Matching Complexity, Contributions to Corporate Financial Choice. The New Paradigm in Risk Management. Actual Risk Sharing Measurement in Islamic Banks. Systemic Risk in Structured Finance: Lessons from the Ongoing Financial Crisis. Finance and Sustainability: Towards a New Paradigm? A Post-Crisis Agenda. Critical Studies on Corporate Responsibility, Governance and Sustainability. Critical Studies on Corporate Responsibility, Governance and Sustainability. Copyright page.