Nicolas Mottis

Socially Responsible Investment in France

Socially responsible investment (SRI) in France is based on a “best in class” approach as opposed to the “exclusion” approaches used in other countries such as the United States or United Kingdom, where the rejection of sin stocks has been dominant historically. The objective of this research note is to examine whether the French SRI market, by focusing more on financial rather than on ethical considerations, compared with other countries such as the United States, the United Kingdom, or even Sweden, may lead to a form of “mainstreaming” of SRI processes. The authors explore several convergent mechanisms. First, the authors analyze the importance of the mainstreaming issue in the history of SRI as well as in the contemporaneous debate in the academic literature on the links between financial and extrafinancial (SRI) performance. Second, the authors review the role played by ethical finance laws adopted in France in the early 2000s in the development of the SRI market. Finally, the authors discuss the results of a survey of French SRI analysts working both for large institutional investors and asset managers in France in 2009.

Corporate Social Responsibility and Management Control

This paper focuses on the management control processes associated with Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) issues management in organisations. Following a review of the literature related to management control and CSR, we use a case example of a leading European insurance company to explore the extent and nature of management control for CSR.

Des professionnels pressés sur un semblant de marché...

Cet article traite du management d’une categorie particuliere de professionnels, les enseignants-chercheurs des institutions d’enseignement superieur en management. Dans un premier temps, sont donc examines les caracteristiques de ces professionnels et les problemes particuliers de gestion qu’ils posent. L’evolution de leur contexte institutionnel et les enjeux strategiques qu’ils posent sont developpes en deuxieme partie. Un cadre d’analyse est ensuite propose pour aborder la question du marche des professeurs. La conclusion porte notamment sur la difficulte actuelle des institutions a developper des reponses appropriees.