Select publications by Matthew M Haigh
Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, 2012
ABSTRACT Purpose ‐ Reflects on the process of summarising research. Design/methodology/approach ‐... more ABSTRACT Purpose ‐ Reflects on the process of summarising research. Design/methodology/approach ‐ A musical structure is used as a trope for the usual research cycle of distilling reams of data into a short article that is sectioned into meaningful chunks, all of which is summarised in an abstract and represented by a few keywords. Findings ‐ The reductive process ultimately sublates the empirical world to a series of keywords. Research limitations/implications ‐ Provides a reflexive break to academic work. Originality/value ‐ Reflects on the experience of summarising a lengthy research project to a few keywords. Hopefully, the thing is read at the end.
Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 2014
Journal of Sustainable Finance & Investment, 2014
As a field of practice, responsible investment has most often been designated as a niche investme... more As a field of practice, responsible investment has most often been designated as a niche investment style or labelled as corporate social responsibility (CSR). Neither is completely incorrect. What is responsible investment? The research has stumbled on a definition. Descriptors such as sustainable , responsible, social and environmental that may preface finance and investment can, it seems, sideline finance and investment into areas that are ill-defined (and which may seem unhelpful to the career paths of scholars interested in the area!). It seems fair to state that the research on responsible investment – and those that would participate in the research – face problems of aim, scope and nomenclature. Whatever the researcher's 'home' research field or teaching department, a researcher in responsible investment needs to recognize the existence of differing definitions of core concepts in the field, and differing relevancies accorded to those definitions. As important are questions for the field, namely: questions of method, timing and the specific circumstances in which investing and financing activity can connect with sustainability and responsibility. Solutions to problems of social responsibility in the current era of globalized markets have, if unsurprisingly, sought refuge in market-based ideas. Shamir (2008) develops a concept of 'responsibilization' to describe contemporary tendencies to economize public domains and methods of government. This becomes a convenient working definition of responsible finance. Examples of responsibilization are manifold in finance. The shifts of retirement provision from private provision in the first half of the twentieth century to a public governmentality in the postwar period to the current return to private arrangement is one. Responsibilization has accompanied the rise of fiduciary capitalism in the latter half of the twentieth century. It is in this period that the recognizable form of responsible investment arrived. This is a version of fiduciary investment that widens its fiduciary scope to include notions of the public good and the public interest. Cochran (1974) characterizes the public interest along a spectrum of four types: normative, abolitionist, consensualist and process types. The norma-tive view is necessarily consistent with the concept of the common good bound in the welfarist state. At the other end of the spectrum, the abolitionist views the public interest as an orientation toward the maximization of private interests. Responsible investment covers both spectrums, causing scholars and practitioners enormous problems as a result.
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Purpose -The object of contemporary social movement theories impliedly privileges extant institut... more Purpose -The object of contemporary social movement theories impliedly privileges extant institutional processes, presenting a paradox to social movement analysis. How can social movement theories provide insights into political processes of organizational change? We suggest a solution in the form of a dialectical approach.
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It is shown that the international human rights regime remains settled on the notion of the state... more It is shown that the international human rights regime remains settled on the notion of the state as the main institutional enactor of human rights obligations. This contrasts the concept of corporate citizenship, which argues that the state has failed its obligations and that corporations have become the new key actors in providing social rights.
Climate Policy, Jan 1, 2011
Finance and Sustainability: Towards a …, Jan 1, 2011
This chapter answers calls for in-depth investigations into the factors affecting the success of ... more This chapter answers calls for in-depth investigations into the factors affecting the success of (legislative) attempts to broaden the role of pension funds by means of shareholder activism
Journal of Sustainable Finance & Investment, Jan 1, 2011
Critical Perspectives on Accounting, Vol. 17, No. 8, …, Jan 1, 2009
Journal of Sustainable Finance & Investment, Jan 1, 2011
Provides an overview of the aims and scopes of journals and magazines publishing the outcomes of ... more Provides an overview of the aims and scopes of journals and magazines publishing the outcomes of responsible investment research. Discusses interconnected terms such as responsibility, sustainability, ecology, financing and investing.
"To enter the academe, provisionally,
A rewriting will take time
Enough to adjust naïveté
... more "To enter the academe, provisionally,
A rewriting will take time
Enough to adjust naïveté
Entering the academe as bounded property
To enter the academe, editorially
Discontinuous. Divergent. Too many themes.
Straightforward change of emphases
Bounded property of the Library
To enter the academe, a door shuts silently,
A noble work undeniably
Finding use in Industry
On entering the academe, bounded property of the Library
To enter the territory Blue, Ruby & Gold
A known quantity appraises Faculty
Accepts the modus operandi"
Papers by Matthew M Haigh
Purpose-Recently enacted Australian law governing financial services requires investment managers... more Purpose-Recently enacted Australian law governing financial services requires investment managers to report to what extent social considerations are employed in portfolio construction. Using the principal-agent framework as an interpretive backdrop, the paper aims to analyse institutional responses to the introduction of the legislation. Design/methodology/approach-The paper distinguishes formal, claimed accountabilities from practised accountabilities. It identifies practised accountabilities by examining legislative requirements, noting responses of mainstream investment banking institutions in the period of legislative development, interviewing a sample of investment managers, and examining a sample of information disclosures issued in the initial period of the legislation. Findings-The paper finds that while appeasing investment managers and the lobby group that urged for the disclosures, the non-prescriptive regulations promise little in terms of promoting the integrity of management practices. Initial disclosures were poor, providing little basis for comparability. Research limitations/implications-The paper provides a basis to investigate accountabilities in service-based contractual relationships, particularly managed investments. Originality/value-The paper introduces a new research field: social reporting in financial services. The period reviewed was the initial reporting period in which Australian practitioners were required to issue social reports. Counterpart European legislation has not attracted scholarly attention. A contribution is made to critical research on social investment.
consultancy research on environmental, social and economic issues. Melbourne. We acknowledge the ... more consultancy research on environmental, social and economic issues. Melbourne. We acknowledge the use of material published by Corporate Europe Observatory, Brussels.
Tourism Management, 2020
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Select publications by Matthew M Haigh
A rewriting will take time
Enough to adjust naïveté
Entering the academe as bounded property
To enter the academe, editorially
Discontinuous. Divergent. Too many themes.
Straightforward change of emphases
Bounded property of the Library
To enter the academe, a door shuts silently,
A noble work undeniably
Finding use in Industry
On entering the academe, bounded property of the Library
To enter the territory Blue, Ruby & Gold
A known quantity appraises Faculty
Accepts the modus operandi"
Papers by Matthew M Haigh
A rewriting will take time
Enough to adjust naïveté
Entering the academe as bounded property
To enter the academe, editorially
Discontinuous. Divergent. Too many themes.
Straightforward change of emphases
Bounded property of the Library
To enter the academe, a door shuts silently,
A noble work undeniably
Finding use in Industry
On entering the academe, bounded property of the Library
To enter the territory Blue, Ruby & Gold
A known quantity appraises Faculty
Accepts the modus operandi"