State mediation in market emergence: Socially responsible investing in China
Yan,S. Ferraro,Fabrizio
Yan,S.
Ferraro,Fabrizio
Abstract
Socially responsible investing (SRI) funds depart from mainstream finance by incorporating environmental, social, and governance considerations, but their success varies across regions. By using a historical comparative case design, we identify an empirically puzzling phenomenon in China: despite an initially favorable resource environment and the presence of socially skilled institutional entrepreneurs, SRI wanes over time in Hong Kong but survives in Mainland China where initial resource endowments and actors’ social skills were inferior. By comparing four periods of SRI development, we reveal how state sustainable development policies, a change in the institutional context, led unintentionally to a shared orientation and a public pool of resources, which sustained the SRI niche. Our paper contributes to research on market emergence, institutional change, and cultural entrepreneurship.
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2016
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Emerald group publishing limited
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SDG 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth, SDG 17 - Partnerships for the Goals
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Yan, S & Ferraro, F 2016, State mediation in market emergence : Socially responsible investing in China. in J Gehman, M Lounsbury & R Greenwood (eds), Research in the sociology of organizations : How institutions matter!. vol. 49B, Emerald group publishing limited, Bingley, UK, pp. 173-206.
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