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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.

About the Author

Philip Balsiger is Professor of Economic Sociology at the University of Neuchatel, Switzerland.

Daniel Burnier Lecturer at the University of Neuchatel, Switzerland.

Noe Kabouche is a postdoctoral researcher in Sociology at the Ecole Normale Superieure, France.

Reviews

'As claims made for finance's role to contribute to public goods continue to grow, this collection of detailed case studies critically interrogates the 'impact investing' label, affording nuanced insights into this contradictory and still-emerging field.' Marc Andrew Brightman, University of Bologna

Book Information
ISBN 9781529252569
Author Philip Balsiger
Format Paperback
Page Count 242
Imprint Bristol University Press
Publisher Bristol University Press