Is corporate social responsibility sufficient enough to explain the investment by socially responsible funds?
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عنوان ژورنال: Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0924-865X,1573-7179
DOI: 10.1007/s11156-016-0605-x