2015
DOI: 10.1007/s11266-015-9621-z
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Social Impact Investing in Germany: Current Impediments from Investors’ and Social Entrepreneurs’ Perspectives

Abstract: The paper provides empirical evidence on impediments of the emerging social impact investment field in Germany. The study is based on 19 in-depth interviews with social impact investing funds, investment advisors, and social entrepreneurs as investees. It takes an explorative approach because of the nascent stage of research on the subject. By systematically relating the perspectives of the actors involved, the study gives a broad empirical picture on the major challenges for social impact investing in Germany… Show more

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“…Unlike ethical investing or socially responsible investing (SRI), which focuses on the negative screening of alcohol, tobacco, and firearms, and a range of businesses and activities which do not damage society, impact investing is positioned as taking a proactive approach actively identifying businesses with the intent to achieve a financial return and create a positive social or environmental impact.' Glänzel and Scheuerle, (2016) 'Measurable social and ecological impact as dominant goals here, with the potential for a financial upside.' 2016Definitions of Impact Investment are based on two common principles:…”
Section: Definitional Developmentmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Unlike ethical investing or socially responsible investing (SRI), which focuses on the negative screening of alcohol, tobacco, and firearms, and a range of businesses and activities which do not damage society, impact investing is positioned as taking a proactive approach actively identifying businesses with the intent to achieve a financial return and create a positive social or environmental impact.' Glänzel and Scheuerle, (2016) 'Measurable social and ecological impact as dominant goals here, with the potential for a financial upside.' 2016Definitions of Impact Investment are based on two common principles:…”
Section: Definitional Developmentmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The academic research about SII is concentrated in about 50 published works (Daggers and Nicholls, 2016). Some of them focus on real-word examples to study the functioning of specific financial instruments (Warner, 2013;Joy and Shields, 2013;Sinclair, Roy Huckfield and Donaldson, 2013;Jackson, 2013;Nicholls & Tomkinson, 2015a;Stoezs, 2014;Arena, Bengo, Calderini and Chiodo, 2016), barriers to SII (Nicholls, 2010;Glanzel and Scheuerle, 2016;Mendell and Barbosa, 2013;Schwartz, Jones and Nicholls, 2015;Ormiston, Charlton, Donald and Seymour, 2015) and public policies for SII (Andion, Becker and Victor, 2012;Wells, 2012;Wood, Thornley and Grace, 2013;Addis, 2015;Spear, Paton and Nicholls, 2015;Hazenberg et al, 2014). Other authors offer a mathematical modelling (Brandstetter and Lehner, 2015;Nicholls and Tomkinson, 2015b;Nicholls and Patton, 2015;Chowdhry, Davies and Waters, 2015).…”
Section: Infrastructural Elements In Social Finance's Evolutionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…De esta forma, un bajo retorno debería ser recompensado por un riesgo inferior. Así las cosas, y partiendo del supuesto de un mayor nivel de seguridad en la inversión depositada en un proyecto empresarial con propósito sostenible, por su misma condición de largo plazo (Glänzel & Scheuerle, 2015;Gra-benwarter & Liechtenstein, 2011), se puede asegurar que una II podría ser considerada eventualmente como una inversión atractiva para cualquier inversionista.…”
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