Tinkering Toward the Good––Sustainable Investing Between Utopian Imaginaries and Actualizations
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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.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Journal | Journal of Business Ethics |
| Volume | 185 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| Pages (from-to) | 281-297 |
| Number of pages | 17 |
| ISSN | 0167-4544 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 06.2023 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
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- Business and International Management
- General Business,Management and Accounting
- Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
- Economics and Econometrics
- Law
- Business, Management and Accounting(all)
ASJC Scopus Subject Areas
- Sustainability, Sustainable investing, Utopianism
- Management studies
- Sustainability Governance
