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Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain for Social Impact
Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain for Social Impact provides an accessible overview of artificial intelligence (AI) and blockchain technologies, and explores their applications for social enterprise and impact investing. The opening chapter introduces the impact space, exploring different social business models, the role of technology, the impact investing market and general problems in the space. The remainder of this book falls into two paths: the first focusing on AI and the other looking at the blockchain technology. Providing introductions to each of these technologies and their histories, the author goes on to examine them from the perspectives of social business models and impact...
Impact Investing
This book is the first publication to provide a comprehensive overview about the market, financial instruments and the associated impact assessment for interested practitioners and academics. Specifically, it will introduce the concept of impact investing within the broader field of social finance as well as the relevant actors, present current financing instruments and the various tools to assess the impact of the investing strategy. This useful reference tool will be of interest to academics and researchers in the field of impact investing. Impact investing is a dynamic field that has been recently been discussed as a supplemental funding source for addressing societal problems. The topic has generated significant interest and is presumed to achieve double-digit growth rates for the coming years.
Social Entrepreneurship and Social Business
This compilation offers students a comprehensive overview of the field of social entrepreneurship. Leading European researchers and lecturers such as Ann-Kristin Achleitner, Markus Beckmann, Heather Cameron, Pascal Dey, Andreas Heinecke, Benjamin Huybrechts, Alex Nicholls, Johanna Mair, Susan Müller and Chris Steyaert have contributed to this textbook.
Innovations in Social Finance
Our world is experiencing increasingly complex social and environmental challenges. The prevailing business models and, to some extent, capitalism per se, are frequently blamed for these problems due to their neglect of social and environmental values in favour of financial returns. Within this context, social finance has attracted the attention of governments, organizations, entrepreneurs, and researchers as a means of mobilizing resources and innovation with the goal of establishing effective long-term solutions. This edited collection summarizes, discusses, and analyzes new innovative trends in social finance. It features contributions that aim to highlight emerging trends (products, tool...
Evolving Business Ethics
Business ethics as a discipline has been evolving rapidly, and indeed needs to evolve constantly. This evolution is mandated more urgently than ever before as we plunge headlong, and with increasing velocity, into the era of automation, artificial intelligence and digitization. In a scenario where legal and policy guidelines are scarce or ambiguous, the role of business ethics in guiding academic and industrial research and innovation cannot be understated. Ethical codes and guidelines are needed for educators, scientists, industries, law and policy makers, as well as for the general public engaged with emerging technologies not only to ensure a smooth transition into the autonomous and digi...
Venture Philanthropy in Theorie und Praxis
Venture Philanthropy stößt in Deutschland und Europa zunehmend auf Interesse. Diese Variante der Philanthropie versteht ihre Aktivitäten als soziale Investition in gemeinwohlorientierte Organisationen und greift dazu auf Methoden aus Venture Capital und Betriebswirtschaft zurück. Sie steht damit im Kontext verwandter Konzepte wie 'Strategische Philanthropie' oder 'Soziales Unternehmertum'. Der Band liefert eine geistes- und sozialwissenschaftliche Analyse des Konzeptes und beschäftigt sich dabei mit seinen theoretischen Grundlagen, dem Verhältnis zur " herkömmlichen" Philanthropie sowie seinen Auswirkungen auf das Innenleben der Zivilgesellschaft. Ausführlich berücksichtigt wird au...
Theory and Empirical Research in Social Entrepreneurship
Scholars and policy makers have long recognized entrepreneurship as a powerful engine of economic growth. There is clear evidence, however, that when it comes to social entrepreneurship, policy attention has not been matched by growth in scholarly rese
Emerging Research Directions in Social Entrepreneurship
This book takes an inside-out approach to examine the broad topic of social entrepreneurship. Instead of looking inward at what social entrepreneurship is, this book looks forward from the view of successful social entrepreneurs to answer the important question, “Where is social entrepreneurship going next?” First, the volume looks at the essential qualities of social entrepreneurs, including the importance of humility as a trait in the social entrepreneur, the way in which social entrepreneurs define themselves as such, and if and how opportunity recognition differs in social and traditional entrepreneurs. Next, the volume looks at the impact of social entrepreneurial businesses on indi...
Netzwerke und soziale Innovationen
Im vorliegenden Sammelband Netzwerke und Soziale Innovationen wird der Frage nachgegangen, welchen Beitrag Netzwerke bei der Entstehung und Entwicklung von sozialen Innovationen leisten können und wie dies zu Veränderungen in der Gesellschaft führt. In einem Mix aus theoretischen und reflexiven Beiträgen als auch der Darstellung von spannenden Initiativen und Projekten – von den InitiatorInnen selbst anschaulich geschildert –, wird die Thematik praxisorientiert aufgearbeitet. Sowohl PraktikerInnen als auch WissenschaftlicherInnen erhalten wertvolle Hinweise für die Organisation und Entwicklung sozialer Innovationen.
CSR und Social Enterprise
Lernen Sie in diesem Buch mehr über einen besonderen Zugang zu Corporate Social Responsibility: Das Social Enterprise In diesem Band „CSR und Social Enterprise - Beeinflussungsprozesse und effektives Schnittstellenmanagement“ stellen die Herausgeber Alexander Kraemer und Laura Marie Edinger-Schons fundiert und praxisnah einen besonderen Zugang zu Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) vor: Das Social Enterprise. In der heutigen Zeit stellt die Gesellschaft viele neue Anforderungen an Unternehmen. Jeder Betrieb reagiert unterschiedlich auf die geänderten Voraussetzungen. Immer mehr von ihnen richten eigene CSR-Abteilungen ein, die eher soziale als profitorientierte Zielsetzungen verfolge...
