Efforts to meet human water needs at local scales may cause negative environmental
externalities and stress on the water system at regional and global scales. Hence, assessing …

Positive societal change happens when community members, supporters, and
entrepreneurially minded agents come together to aggregate resources and build new …

Impact investors pursue both financial and social goals and have become an important
source of funding for social enterprises. Our study assesses impact investor criteria when …

The specter of climate change poses the greatest governance challenge of our generation.
Climate change threatens to exact costs on society that will last for generations. 2 Its …

Focusing on the collaboration intersecting public, non‐profit and private spheres of
economic activity, we analyse the conceptual forms of hybridity embedded in these novel …

Despite the role of social entrepreneurship to create social value and transformation, little is
still known about how social value can be generated. Drawing upon the service dominant …

Identifying, measuring and improving social impact is a significant challenge for corporate
and private foundations, charities, NGOs and corporations. How best to balance possible …

Impact investing-investment with the intentional expectation of social or environmental
impact alongside financial return-constitutes one of a growing array of “concerned markets” …

Impact investing has great potential to contribute to achieving the Sustainable Development
Goals by financing the growth of social sector organisations. This paper conducts a …

Suitable for courses addressing community economic development, non-profit
organizations, co-operatives and the social economy more broadly, the second edition of …