Social Impact Bonds and the Perils of Aligned Interests

Florentine Maier and Michael Meyer
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Florentine Maier: Institute for Nonprofit Management, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, Vienna 1020, Austria
Michael Meyer: Institute for Nonprofit Management, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, Vienna 1020, Austria

Administrative Sciences, 2017, vol. 7, issue 3, 1-10

Abstract: Social impact bonds (SIBs) have been welcomed enthusiastically as a new funding tool for social innovation, yet also condemned as an instrument that neglects beneficiaries’ and taxpayers’ interests, opening profit opportunities in the field of social politics for smart private investors. We will shed a more analytical light on SIBs, assuming that, like any contract, SIBs try to align interests between partners with partly converging, partly diverging goals. Thus, it remains mainly a matter of negation, and non-profit social service providers as well as public agencies should avoid particular perils and pitfalls.

Keywords: social impact bonds; financialization; commercialization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L M M0 M1 M10 M11 M12 M14 M15 M16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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