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Varieties of Impact Investing

Creating and Translating a Label in Local Contexts
Buch | Softcover
242 Seiten
2025
Bristol University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5292-5256-9 (ISBN)
CHF 57,60 inkl. MwSt
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.


A new trend in ethical finance, impact investing aims to generate positive social or environmental impacts alongside financial returns. But what does it really mean and how is it practiced across different regions and organizations?


This volume explores the malleability of impact investing and how it overlaps with the development sphere to give finance a new role. From global networks to the Global South, it compares diverse investing practices and discourses.


Providing an original perspective on this emerging field, this is a key resource for the scholars of social studies of finance, economic sociology, management and organization studies.

Philip Balsiger is Professor of Economic Sociology at the University of Neuchatel, Switzerland. Daniel Burnier Lecturer at the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland. Noé Kabouche is a postdoctoral researcher in Sociology at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, France.

1. Introduction: Labelling and Enacting Impact Investing across Contexts - Philip Balsiger, Daniel Burnier and Noé Kabouche





Part 1: Translating the Impact Label into National and Transnational Contexts


2. Impact Investing and Philanthropy in the Global South: Innovative Finance at the Aga Khan Development Network - Farwa Sial and Jessica Sklair


3. Socio-genesis of the Impact Investing World in France - Eve Chiapello and Camille Roth


4. Capitalizing on Capitalism: How Impact Investing in Geneva Emerged among the Traditional Financial Field - Noé Kabouche


5. Impact Investing and the Politics of Leverage: Towards a Meso-level Perspective on Derisking - Philipp Golka


6. Social Impact Investing in Italy: A Case of Weak Financialization of Welfare? - Davide Caselli


7. Balancing Risks and Outcomes in Colombia’s First Social Impact Bond: Empleando Futuro - Natalia Gómez Muñoz





Part 2: Enacting Impact in Investment Practices


8. Implementing ‘Impact’ in Rural Ghana: Negotiating Meanings and Shifting Interpretations - Claudia Campisano


9. Relational Work and Power in an Emerging Market: Local Understandings of Impact Investing in Nigeria - Elena Christodoulou and Shonali Banerjee


10. The Impact of Ignorance: Sustaining Impact Investing’s Fictional Expectations - Daniel Burnier


11. Conclusion: Towards a Theorization of Varieties of Impact Investing - Emily Barman

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Business, Finance and International Development
Zusatzinfo 8 Tables, black and white; 9 Illustrations, black and white
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Spezielle Soziologien
Wirtschaft Betriebswirtschaft / Management Unternehmensführung / Management
ISBN-10 1-5292-5256-3 / 1529252563
ISBN-13 978-1-5292-5256-9 / 9781529252569
Zustand Neuware
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