Integrated Investing: How to integrate environmental impacts in investment processes of companies

Besides financial goals, companies increasingly start formulating strategic environmental goals. However, the management and control of these goals remains a challenge. Therefore, this thesis aims to develop a method that is able to systematically integrate financial and environmental data in investment processes. This new integrated investing method is applied in seven case studies within the Volkswagen Group to verify the method’s practical applicability as well as its ability to manage and control strategic environmental and financial goals. This dissertation contributes to the development and application of a new integrated investing method that aims to ensure a sufficient degree of scientific quality and practical applicability. With the help of this method, it is able to systematically integrate environmental impacts in investment processes of companies in order to manage and control the achievement of strategic environmental and financial goals.