Placing People at the Centre of Social Impact Measurement: Current Approaches, Challenges, and Future Directions

Fostering Social Impact Through Corporate Implementation of the SDGs: Transformative Mechanisms Towards Interconnectedness and Inclusiveness

“…In the last decade, scholars have extensively dealt with the concept of social impact and in particular with the process of social impact assessment, an operational tool increasingly used by different types of actors (governments, public entities, companies, NGOs) to define which strategies to adopt and with which results and expected impacts for society in general (Alomoto et al, 2021;Kah & Akenroye, 2020). The requests and expectations of stakeholders for common and global objectives, as well as the ever-increasing demand for transparency and accountability, are the decisive pushes towards social impact (Hiruy et al, 2022). The challenges of the UN Agenda 2030 reinforce the need for continuous interaction between companies (and other social actors) and stakeholders to ensure that the latter can understand and evaluate the expected impacts on their lives and that companies have an operational guidance on which paths to take and focus on (Clifford & Barnes, 2022;Paterson-Young & Hazenberg, 2022).…”