Professor Dr. Emilio Marti
Siyana adapted her political science PhD work to the proxy voting context to develop our first-of-its-kind approach to benchmarking proxy voting records.
After publishing her PhD in the #1 journal for international relations worldwide, Siyana has continued to produce an impressive range of applied and academic work. In September 2024, she co-published a paper in another top journal in which she and co-authors applied semi-supervised computational text analysis based on word embeddings to over 300,000 articles from The Economist between 1843 and 2020 to capture the territoriality−functionality continuum in global discourse.
Academic Publications
- Gurova, Siyana, 2024. Ideological cleavages beyond the nation-state : the emergence of transnational political groups in international parliaments. The Review of International Organizations. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11558-023-09522-3
- Caramani, D., Gurova, S., & Widmann, T. (2024). The Evolution of Global Cleavages: A Historical Analysis of Territorial and Functional World Alignments Based on Automated Text Analysis, 1843–2020. Comparative Political Studies, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/00104140241271085
Dr. Emilio Marti is an Associate Professor at the Rotterdam School of Management (RSM), Erasmus University. His research focuses on questions of corporate sustainability, particularly how institutional investors influence corporate behavior and sustainability outcomes. His research into how sustainable investing affects corporate sustainability has led to his becoming one of the foremost experts in shareholder engagement.
Emilio’s research has published in academic journals such as Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, or Organization Science and featured in outlets such as the Financial Times, Harvard Business Review, and Institutional Investor. His work has been recognized with awards such as the best paper award of the French Sustainable Investment Forum (FIR) and the Principles for Responsible Investing (PRI).
Before joining RSM in 2018, Emilio held post-doctoral positions at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, and Bayes Business School, City, University of London. He completed his PhD at the University of Zurich in 2015.
At rezonanz, Emilio applies his deep qualitative expertise in engagement to enrich and complement our data-driven solutions to help investors drive measurable sustainability outcomes.
Selected Recent Publications
- DesJardine, M. R., Shi, W., & Marti, E. (2024). The Corporate Opportunity Structure for Shareholder Activism: How Activist Hedge Funds Exploit Board Demographic Diversity. Organization Science, 35(2), 644–666. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2023.1679
- Marti, E., Fuchs, M., DesJardine, M. R., Slager, R., & Gond, J.-P. (2023). The Impact of Sustainable Investing: A Multidisciplinary Review. Journal of Management Studies, 61(5), 2181–2211. https://doi.org/10.1111/joms.12957
- Athanasopoulou, A., Marti, E., Risi, D., & Schlindwein, E. (In press). How Companies Restrain Means–Ends Decoupling: A Comparative Case Study of CSR Implementation. Journal of Management Studies. https://doi.org/10.1111/joms.13043
- DesJardine, M. R., Marti, E., & Durand, R. (2020). Why Activist Hedge Funds Target Socially Responsible Firms: The Reaction Costs of Signaling Corporate Social Responsibility. Academy of Management Journal, 64(3). https://doi.org/10.5465/amj.2019.0238