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ESG : de plus en plus à la mode pour les entreprises du S&P 500
Ivan Tchotourian 4 octobre 2019 Ivan Tchotourian
Selon le Wall Street Journal : « More Companies Are Making Noise About ESG » (4 octobre 2019). Voilà une bonne nouvelle pour la RSE !
Extrait :
Big U.S. companies are increasingly talking up environmental, social and governance factors on earnings calls—and betting that investors increasingly concerned with social responsibility will reward them for it.
Twenty-four companies in S&P 500 mentioned the acronym “ESG” on earnings conference calls between June 15 and Sept. 14, double the number that cited the term in the first quarter, according to FactSet.
That marks a huge increase from just two years earlier, when only two companies referred to ESG in the second quarter of 2017. But it still represents only 5% of the companies in the index.
The financial sector had the highest number of companies mentioning ESG, followed by the real-estate and utilities sectors.
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Médias sociaux et gouvernance : des liens démontrés
Ivan Tchotourian 11 septembre 2017
Bel article de MM. Beni Lauterbach et Anete Pajuste publié le 20 février 2017 sur le blogue Oxford Business Law Blog intitulé : « Does Media Pressure Propel Corporate Governance Improvements: The Case of Dual Class Share Unifications ». Ce travail de recherche revient sur le rôle des médias sociaux en matière de gouvernance d’entreprise en prenant l’illustration du capital-actions à classe multiple. Quels sont les enseignements des auteurs ? Clairement, les médias sociaux ont un rôle à jouer !
Our main conclusion is that media plays an important role in corporate governance promotion. Firms care for their reputation, which is a valuable asset for them; thus firms pay special attention to public opinion and media criticism. Some real firm decisions are influenced by firm image and reputation concerns, and the weight of these concerns probably only grow with the current ‘explosive’ advance of social media and its power.
Another interesting possible conclusion is that media is a powerful and flexible tool that in some cases can substitute for regulation in effectively restraining firms and their controlling shareholders.
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