Virtual Common Room: Benchmarking corporate performance: What is it all about?
Thursday 14 March 2024, 1:00pm to 2:00pm
Venue
Microsoft TeamsOpen to
Postgraduates, StaffRegistration
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Join Jan Bebbington (Centre Director), Dasha Smirnow and Emre Tarim in our Virtual Common Room for an engaging discussion on the principles and practices of benchmarking and their integration with social and environmental concerns.
Benchmarking of companies has expanded in recent years to integrate social and environmental concerns. For example, the World Benchmarking Alliance (https://www.worldbenchmarkingalliance.org/) is a significant presence in benchmarking non-financial reporting (alongside a number of other bodies). In addition, benchmarking companies using ‘ESG’ elements (that is environment, social and governance factors) has also become part of investors evaluation of companies and informs investment strategies. As such, benchmarks and their outcomes (e.g., individual company rankings) are shown to be consequential on market prices despite recent controversies surrounding the establishment and marketing of these benchmarks.
LU staff and postgraduates welcome.
NB: This event has now taken place.
Speakers
Lancaster University
Dr Dasha Smirnow is a lecturer of Accounting with interest in corporate sustainability and regulation.
Lancaster University
Dr Emre Tarim is a lecturer in Behavioural Sciences at LUMS. He is interested in understanding the nexus between individual cognition and behaviour and social and economic institutions. His ongoing work focuses on cognition and decision making and he has published articles examining these dynamics in the context of retail and institutional financial services, energy transitions, financial markets and climate change, and migrants' integration to European labour markets.
Lancaster University
Professor Jan Bebbington focuses on issues that emerge at the intersections between sustainable development concerns and accounting scholarship and has published on topics such the Sustainable Development Goals; sustainability science; motivations and rationales for standalone reporting; carbon accounting; sustainability assessment and accounting education.
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