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Jan Anton van Zanten

Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University; Robeco Institutional Asset …
Verified email at rsm.nl
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Improving companies' impacts on sustainable development: A nexus approach to the SDGS

JA Van Zanten, R van Tulder - Business Strategy and the …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Companies play a decisive role in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
However, most of the world's sustainable development challenges are interconnected and …

[HTML][HTML] Who owns (un) sustainable companies? Examining institutional determinants of sustainable investing

JA van Zanten, B Rein - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2023 - Elsevier
Sustainable development requires more investment in sustainable companies and less in
unsustainable firms. However, the factors driving sustainable investing are not well understood…

Towards nexus-based governance: defining interactions between economic activities and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

JA Van Zanten, R van Tulder - International Journal of Sustainable …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The success of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) depends on solving the ‘nexus’
challenge: how can positive interactions between SDGs be optimised, and negative …

[PDF][PDF] Corporate sustainability performance: Introducing an SDG score and testing its validity relative to ESG ratings

JA Van Zanten, J Huij - Available at SSRN, 2022 - worthwhileinc.com
Although sustainable investing is becoming a mainstream ambition, investors disagree on
how to best measure corporate sustainability performance (CSP). Environmental, Social, and …

Analyzing companies' interactions with the Sustainable Development Goals through network analysis: Four corporate sustainability imperatives

JA Van Zanten, R van Tulder - Business Strategy and the …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
… Following the method of van Zanten and van Tulder (2018), we reduced this list to 59 SDG
targets by (1) removing SDG 17, since it is an overarching goal dedicated to strengthening the …

Multinational enterprises and the Sustainable Development Goals: An institutional approach to corporate engagement

JA Van Zanten, R Van Tulder - Journal of International Business Policy, 2018 - Springer
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) cannot be achieved without the contributions
of multinational enterprises (MNEs). However, extant international business research hardly …

[HTML][HTML] Beyond COVID-19: Applying “SDG logics” for resilient transformations

JA Van Zanten, R Van Tulder - Journal of International Business Policy, 2020 - Springer
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide a realistic approach to navigate societies
through and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the SDG agenda is not without …

ESG to SDG: Do Sustainable Investing Ratings Align with the Sustainability Preferences of Investors, Regulators, and Scientists?

JA Van Zanten, J Huij - Regulators, and Scientists, 2022 - papers.ssrn.com
Sustainable investors aim to invest in companies that contribute to sustainable development.
However, there is disagreement on how best to measure corporate sustainability …

Does Sustainable Investing Deprive Unsustainable Firms from Fresh Capital?

D Blitz, L Swinkels, JA van Zanten - Available at SSRN 3728025, 2020 - papers.ssrn.com
This paper examines the sustainability characteristics of listed firms that raise fresh capital
by issuing stocks or bonds. Issuance, ie the primary market, should be of paramount …

Sustainability integration for sovereign debt investors: engaging with countries on the SDGs

JA van Zanten, B Sharma… - Journal of Sustainable …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Investors recently adopted a novel approach to sustainable investing: engaging with
countries to advance sustainable development. But engaging with sovereign entities on …