Impact Tension Areas

Urs P. Jäger

Chapter 7 in Managing Social Businesses, 2010, pp 114-129 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Goal of the chapter: Profit businesses have the opportunity to measure their achievements in financial returns. Social businesses have to prove their social impact, which usually cannot be described with statistics. But they have to find methods for their accountability. The question being raised in this chapter is: What are impact tensions between social mission and market rationale? In this chapter the reader learns about the discussion of social-impact assessment and the corresponding methods, tensions and misinterpretations of social impact, and opportunities for creating social-impact assessment in social businesses.

Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230292420_7

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