Wolfgang Spiess-Knafl, Barbara Scheck

Impact Investing

Instruments, Mechanisms and Actors

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is the first publication to provide a comprehensive overview about the market, financial instruments and the associated impact assessment for interested practitioners and academics. Specifically, it will introduce the concept of impact investing within the broader field of social finance as well as the relevant actors, present current financing instruments and the various tools to assess the impact of the investing strategy. This useful reference tool will be of interest to academics and researchers in the field of impact investing.

Impact investing is a dynamic field that has been recently been discussed as a supplemental funding source for addressing societal problems. The topic has generated significant interest and is presumed to achieve double-digit growth rates for the coming years.

Produktdetails

• Palgrave Studies in Impact Finance
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Springer International Publishing / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-319-88271-0
• 2017
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. September 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 148mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 253g
• ISBN-13: 9783319882710
• ISBN-10: 3319882716
• Artikelnr.: 55129648

Autorenporträt

Wolfgang Spiess-Knafl  is the managing director of Next Generation Impact, Chairman of the social impact company Sports Philosophy and trustee of the Freedom for Children Foundation. Prior to this, he worked as a post-doctoral research fellow at the Civil Society Center at the Zeppelin University, Germany. Barbara Scheck  is Professor for Entrepreneurship at Munich Business School, member of the Social Entrepreneurship Akademie and co-founder of Volunteer Vision. Her research interests include social finance, impact assessment and corporate volunteering. Previously, she was an assistant professor for social investment at the University of Hamburg, Germany.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Social entrepreneurship.- Chapter 3: Impact Investing.- Chapter 4:The market.- Chapter 5:The instruments and mechanisms.- Chapter 6: Deals.- Chapter 7: Social Impact Assessment.