How Third-party CSR Ratings Impact Your Share Price

(3BL Media / theCSRfeed) June 26, 2011 - Third-party CSR ratings can affect your share price - good and bad, concludes recent research that tested how additions and deletions from social indexes influence share price. 

"One important takeaway is that investors don't like surprises," says co-author Jonathan Doh, a professor at Villanova University, Pennsylvannia. "Firms interested in sustaining a positive CSR reputation should make ongoing, everyday investments that are genuine and consistent."

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The Network for Business Sustainability is a not-for-profit organization that connects business leaders and academic experts worldwide to devise new business models for the 21^st century. NBS is located at the Richard Ivey School of Business (at The University of Western Ontario) in London, Canada and at the Université du Québec à Montréal. NBS is funded primarily by Canada’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, with additional support from industry partners.

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