Corporate Social Responsibility

We investigate the environmental and economic benefits derived from the adoption of corporate sustainability practices.

PROJECTS

2025

The State of Corporate Sustainability Disclosure 2025

This third annual report on the State of Corporate Sustainability Disclosure provides a comprehensive analysis of how S&P 500 companies are disclosing climate-related information based on 20 core metrics tracked by UCLA’s Open for Good Initiative. This year’s report focuses on four key areas: greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, net-zero targets, climate risk assessment, and climate transition planning.

2024

Assessing sustainability awareness and attitudes within the AC Milan Football Club’s fanbase

Every year, professional sports are responsible for emitting as much as 350 million tons of carbon dioxide from travel, infrastructure, and waste generation, equivalent to emissions from more than 75…

2024

Corporate Sustainability Transparency Index

The key to sustainability progress is understanding where we are and where we want to go. Using publicly disclosed information from the S&P 500, the Open For Good™ initiative has collected sustainability…

2022

Corporate Sustainability Disclosure

Firms have an outsized role in shaping the environmental and social trajectories of our global society. As investors, policy-makers, and the general public increasingly demand transparency to evaluate firms’ impacts,…

2021

Health, Sustainability & the Built Environment

Healthy Buildings and Healthy Homes: Could Indoor Spaces Be Making You Sick? Watch the video of this great conversation moderated by Professor Maggie Delmas, and organized in collaboration with Impact@Anderson…

2019

The Circular Economy: Reduce, Reuse and Recycle

The circular economy has come to the foreground as a promising means through which to achieve sustainable development. Despite the wealth of literature and action plans centered around the circular…

2018

The Green Bundle: Pairing the Market with the Planet

Green Bundle The market for green products has expanded rapidly over the last decade, but most consumers need something more than eco-benefits to motivate their purchases. The Green Bundle, a…

2017

Corporate Sustainability and Employee Engagement

While an emerging body of literature investigates the environmental and financial benefits derived from the adoption of corporate sustainability, exactly how these practices impact organizational effectiveness and employee productivity remains…

2017

Food Eco-labels

Our research seeks to understand how emotions play a role in the purchasing of green products. We considered four eco-labels that are found on meat products, and paired them with…

2017

How should firms disclose their environmental performance?

Firms have various avenues through which to disclose environmental performance information. This project examines two information disclosure strategies (public information disclosure to stakeholders and private information to legislators through lobbying),…

2016

Climate Lobbying

Between 2006 and 2009, firms spent over a billion dollars lobbying on climate-related bills and issues. Such spending is largely perceived as a strategy by industry to oppose regulation. Research…

2016

Eco-labels and Quality in Wine

Eco-labels are part of a new wave of environmental policy that emphasizes information disclosure as a tool to induce environmentally friendly behavior by both firms and consumers. Little consensus exists…

Publications

Total records: 32

Dinámica de los resultados medioambientales y financieros: El caso de las emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero

M. Delmas, N. Nairn-Birch, J. Lim

Published Work 2017 | Economía industrial

Corporate Social Responsibility

The State of Corporate Sustainability Disclosure 2025

Assessing sustainability awareness and attitudes within the AC Milan Football Club’s fanbase

Corporate Sustainability Transparency Index

Corporate Sustainability Disclosure

Health, Sustainability & the Built Environment

The Circular Economy: Reduce, Reuse and Recycle

The Green Bundle: Pairing the Market with the Planet

Corporate Sustainability and Employee Engagement

Food Eco-labels

How should firms disclose their environmental performance?

Climate Lobbying

Eco-labels and Quality in Wine

Publications

Dinámica de los resultados medioambientales y financieros: El caso de las emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero

The effectiveness of US energy efficiency building labels

An eco-label for the airline industry?

Does Organic Wine Taste Better? An Analysis of Experts’ Ratings

Corporate environmental performance and lobbying

Corporate Sustainable Innovation and Employee Behavior

Dynamics of Environmental and Financial Performance: The Case of Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Sustainable Certification for Future Generations: the Case of Family Business

Organizational Responses to Environmental Demands: Opening the Black Box

Real-time, appliance-level electricity use feedback system: How to engage users?

Triangulating Environmental Performance: What do Corporate Social Responsibility Ratings Really Capture?

Measuring Eco-Inefficiency: A New Frontier Approach

Environmental standards and labor productivity: Understanding the mechanisms that sustain sustainability

The Drivers of Greenwashing

Under the Tip of the Iceberg: Absorptive Capacity, Environmental Strategy and Competitive Advantage

An Institutional Perspective on the Diffusion of International Management System Standards: The Case of the Environmental Management Standard ISO 14001

Measuring Corporate Social Responsibility: An Efficiency Perspective

Greening the Supply Chain: When are customer pressures effective?

Socially Responsible Investing: The Need for Transparency

Measuring Corporate Environmental Performance: the Trade-Offs of Sustainability Ratings

Voluntary Agreements to Improve Environmental Quality: Symbolic and Substantive Cooperation

The Diffusion of Voluntary International Management Standards: Responsible Care, ISO 9000, and ISO 14001 in the Chemical Industry

Health and Safety Practices in the Nanomaterials Workplace: Results from an International Survey

Regulatory commitment to negotiated agreements: Evidence from the United states, Germany, the Netherlands, and France

Sustainability in the Motion Picture Industry

Do Greens Drive Hummers or Hybrids? Environmental Ideology as a Determinant of Consumer Choice

Stakeholders and Environmental Management Practices: An Institutional Framework

Business and Environmental Protection: An Introduction

The di¡usion of environmental management standards in Europe and in the United States: An institutional perspective

Stakeholders and Competitive Advantage: the case of ISO 14001

A Framework for Analyzing Environmental Voluntary Agreements

2023 Open for Good Transparency Index