Mistrust in big business and major politicians, coupled with recent scandals in international development, grew from a blatant lack of accountability between decision-makers and recipients. Remedies seem to lie within the UN Sustainable Development Goals, the rise of social entrepreneurship, and the demand for responsible practices, all key drivers for social, rather than merely financial, returns on investments. Yet accounting for such returns remains scattershot and unevenly implemented. 
With contributions from world-leading scholars and practitioners, Generation Impact brings together lessons from both developed and developing economies, shares current best practice and suggests future trends in impact accounting. The book analyses social and environmental capital protocols, the international convergence in impact investing, organisational management and capacity-building and best practice in assurance and training, and offers reflections on policy directions. Through its case-studies it provides insights into a growing global community of practitioners, academics, impact investors, policy-makers and organisations of all kinds working to cement the central importance of accounting for social value.  
For its unique blend of scholarly research and boots-on-the-ground insights, Generation Impact is a must-read for development scholars and students interested in social and environmental accounting, practitioners, senior managers, and executives concerned with organisational practice and its real impact on wider social and economic development.
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Generation Impact  fills a significant gap in the impact accounting literature about how ambitions, pressures, and misgivings can be addressed, dealt with, and harnessed into forward-looking programmes for the creation, measurement, and management in social accounting.

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Chapter 1. Foreword; Jed Emerson Chapter 2. Introduction; Jeremy Nicholls & Adam Richards  Chapter 3. The Imperative for Impact: The Global Context; Karen Wilson  Chapter 4. A Mission to Maximize Social Value; Shaun Doran  Chapter 5. The Practitioner’s´ View. Impact Valuation Roundtable; Ravi Abeywardana, Eugenia Ceballos Hunziker, Malcolm Cheetham, Sonja Haut, Christian Heller, Marina Prada, Nina Nrjama, Marina Schurr, Lene Serpa, Andreza Souza, Pearl Tiwari, María Luisa Villa & Gabriele Wende  Chapter 6. Managing social impact in practice or why asking questions is so hard - experience of Koç University Social Impact Forum in Turkey; Gonca Ongan & Agata Fortuna  Chapter 7. Constituent Voice: feedback loops, relationships, and continual improvement in complex system change; David Bonbright and Andre Proctor  Chapter 8 The Path to a (faster) Systemic Change; William Hendradjaja & Moon Leoma  Chapter 9. From Impact Valuation to System Value Creation; Bill Baue  Chapter 10. The Risks Not Taken: Building Inclusive Markets for Underserved Communities; Durreen Shahnaz, Jennifer Chien & Shibao Pek  Chapter 11. Impact Investing – A Sleeping Radical?; David Wilton  Chapter 12. Moral Money: Do No Harm in Social Investing; Gayle Peterson  Chapter 13. Social Value in Commissioning; Anne Lythgoe and Matthew Baqueriza-Jackson  Chapter 14. Procurement for Maximum Impact; Stephanie Robertson  Chapter 15. Maximizing social value in Russia: for never was a story of more woe; Yulia Romashchenko  Chapter 16. Commissioning for Outcomes – An Indigenous Model in New Zealand; Sneha Lakhotia  Chapter 17. Public Policy for social value creation in East Asia; Chien Wen Shen &Agnieszka Koziel  Chapter 18. Assurance – do we know enough?; Ben Carpenter, Adrian Henriques & Catherine Manning  Chapter 19. How to do Good Collaboration; Mark Gough   Chapter 20. The Entrepreneur at the centre of Entrepreneurship Development support. More novel than obvious? Lessons from South Africa; Lisa van Eck, Jenny Retief, Victoria Williams, Khutjo Langa, Shawn Theunissen, Asgar Bhikoo, Lana Lovasic, Nonceba Qabazi  Chapter 21. The Power of Networks: How to Do it Right; Naina Batra  Chapter 22. Managing for impact: the role of investors’ Networks in enhancing appropriate Impact Measurement AND Management practices; Alessia Gianoncelli &Gianluca Gaggiotti  Chapter 23. If you want to go far you need to go deep: a framework of impact archetypes; Victoria Hurth  Chapter 24. The Promise of Impact Accounting; Thaddeaus Robert Zochowski  Chapter 25. Conclusions for (more) Impact; Adam Richards & Jeremy Nicholls
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781789739305
Publisert
2021-01-08
Utgiver
Emerald Publishing Limited
Vekt
559 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Dybde
20 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
312

Biografisk notat

Adam Richards PhD, is a senior manager at Social Value International leading social value and impact management training. Before joining Social Value International, he was a Senior Lecturer at Liverpool John Moores University. Jeremy Nicholls, founded Social Value UK and Social Value International and is currently serving at Staffordshire University, as Visiting Professor of Social Value, one of the first roles of its kind.