Introduction

Wolfgang Spiess-Knafl and Barbara Scheck
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Wolfgang Spiess-Knafl: Witten/Herdecke University
Barbara Scheck: Munich Business School

Chapter 1 in Impact Investing, 2017, pp 1-11 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Impact investing is strongly linked to social problems and societal challenges, which are changing at an accelerating pace. The way those challenges are being addressed have changed as well. A new generation of entrepreneurs is working on social business models and new investors have become involved in the funding of those approaches. The chapter also differentiates impact investing from other forms of creating social impact and gives an overview of what is discussed in the book.

Keywords: Impact Investing; Social Business Model; Social Sector Organizations; Socially Responsible Investment (SRI); Social Entrepreneurship (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-66556-6_1

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