Tinkering Toward the Good––Sustainable Investing Between Utopian Imaginaries and Actualizations
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in: Journal of Business Ethics, Jahrgang 185, Nr. 2, 06.2023, S. 281-297.
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T1 - Tinkering Toward the Good––Sustainable Investing Between Utopian Imaginaries and Actualizations
AU - Dahlman, Sara
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature B.V.
PY - 2023/6
Y1 - 2023/6
N2 - This article seeks to reimagine the relationship between sustainability and financial performance in sustainable investing. Employing a utopian lens, I show how sustainability is constantly negotiated in a process of imagining and actualizing sustainable investing. For this purpose, I explore a fin-tech start-up’s endeavors to democratize sustainable investing through digitalization. Empirically, this article contributes a detailed account of the organizational process of––and the complexities involved in––establishing a sustainable investment organization, to this end focusing on the relationship between sustainability and financial performance. The article further provides a novel theoretical perspective (utopianism) on sustainable investing, one offering a processual approach that uses both external and internal factors in its understanding of the practice. I conclude that a utopian mindset of possibility paves the way for an experimentational attitude and future-oriented thinking. Such a mindset could generate new approaches to the relationship between sustainability and financial performance, thus shining a light on the new and innovative solutions needed to establish financial markets oriented to the common good.
AB - This article seeks to reimagine the relationship between sustainability and financial performance in sustainable investing. Employing a utopian lens, I show how sustainability is constantly negotiated in a process of imagining and actualizing sustainable investing. For this purpose, I explore a fin-tech start-up’s endeavors to democratize sustainable investing through digitalization. Empirically, this article contributes a detailed account of the organizational process of––and the complexities involved in––establishing a sustainable investment organization, to this end focusing on the relationship between sustainability and financial performance. The article further provides a novel theoretical perspective (utopianism) on sustainable investing, one offering a processual approach that uses both external and internal factors in its understanding of the practice. I conclude that a utopian mindset of possibility paves the way for an experimentational attitude and future-oriented thinking. Such a mindset could generate new approaches to the relationship between sustainability and financial performance, thus shining a light on the new and innovative solutions needed to establish financial markets oriented to the common good.
KW - Sustainability
KW - Sustainable investing
KW - Utopianism
KW - Management studies
KW - Sustainability Governance
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85135469514&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s10551-022-05217-8
DO - 10.1007/s10551-022-05217-8
M3 - Journal articles
AN - SCOPUS:85135469514
VL - 185
SP - 281
EP - 297
JO - Journal of Business Ethics
JF - Journal of Business Ethics
SN - 0167-4544
IS - 2
ER -