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ABSTRACT Purpose: How to evaluate the social impact of social innovation has emerged as an important question posed by academics, organizations, and policymakers in recent years. One reason for this is the increasing concern with the social impact of different types of organizations and social practices, particularly in response to a recognition of the urgency of developing more inclusive economies and societies. To find an answer to this question, this research seeks to investigate the state-of-the-art in terms of social innovation impact measurement, drawing on both scientific literature and practitioner literature. Originality/value: This research discusses the challenges posed by measuring the impact of social innovation initiatives and how these measurements may change the assessment process. The analysis finds that methodologies for measuring social innovation have mainly been undertaken in Europe, where these initiatives are largely addressed. Design/methodology/approach: This paper adopted a qualitative research approach based on the scoping review method. This method is widely used to identify emergent topics in scientific literature, aiming to identify implications for research and decision-making. The research was developed based on different steps to obtain information about the social impact measurement indicators and their overall contribution to the advancement of social innovation. Findings: The results also confirmed the lack of social innovation frameworks, methodologies, and tools capable of measuring the social impact of social innovations. Furthermore, a set of barriers in this field was identified, which can be used to channel better upcoming academic research on developing social impact indicators for social innovation.

ABSTRACT Purpose: This paper reviews extant research related to the impact assessment of social innovation and identifies several barriers to this assessment. Following this is a proposal of interventions to overcome these barriers. Originality/value: Social innovation has played an essential role in enhancing positive changes for society. Nonetheless, measuring its impact is a very significant challenge due to the many barriers faced in selecting metrics that fit its definition and goal. Recognizing these challenges, the main contribution of this paper was to identify the most common barriers and to suggest how these barriers can be overcome. Design/methodology/approach: Two approaches were considered in this research. On the one hand, a bottom-up approach was applied to review relevant literature related to impact metrics for social innovation and good practices toward social innovation impact assessment. On the other hand, we used a top-down approach through collecting and analyzing research projects related to identifying metrics of social innovation impact, broadly disseminated and well-consolidated in the current literature. Findings: This research offers valuable insights to academic researchers, policy decision-makers, and practitioners working in the field of social innovation by identifying and classifying the main barriers faced to measuring the impact of social innovation, namely lack of stakeholder awareness in the field of social innovation, difficulties in selecting the metrics to assess social innovation, problems in selecting criteria to identify best-fitted indicators to social innovation, lack of beneficiaries engagement, lack of financial and public support, and lack of consensus in the social innovation definition.

"Available online 13 March 2020, In Press" ; Brazil is one of the world key players in the mining industry. This sector has also a remarkable role on the Brazilian economic and social development. Nonetheless, the economic, social and environmental impacts of the sector have not yet been fully documented, debated or understood in reports presented by companies and public organizations in the country. In this context, this research aims to contribute to this debate by analysing sustainability in the Brazilian mining sector. For this research, the approach has used mostly a qualitative method, interviews, coupled with content analysis of reports of public mining agencies. Results showed that sustainability assessment and communication is still an emergent process in Brazilian mining, since only a few large companies have been reporting their sustainability initiatives. The results provide also evidence of the existing gap between large and small companies, with the latter showing lower levels of awareness of the impact of their activities. Based on these findings, this research has concluded on the need for closer cooperation between government, public mining agencies and companies to raise levels of knowledge and awareness within companies, towards sustainability practices and communication initiatives. ; The authors would like to thank to CAPES and Without Borders scholarship (Brazil), BEX Process 10.190-13-9 for providing financial support to this research. This work has been also supported by national funds through FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, Portugal, within the R&D Units Project Scope: ...

The mining sector in Brazil has grown in the last decades contributing in an expressive form to the economic growth of the country. However, this progress has also contributed to the increase of environmental impacts brought by the mining industries include puts in evidence the need to define strategies well suited to deal with the particularities of each process or company. The main goal of this research was to develop a conceptual model matching environmental strategies with the sustainability dimensions focusing on the mining sector. The model was validated through two empirical approaches, including a Delphi study and a case study. From the Delphi study 28 environmental strategies were identified and classified in a work which is deemed to be relevant for companies targeting sustainability objectives and dealing with different environmental objectives. The case study addressed a large mining company located in the State of Paraiba in Brazil and showed both the relevance of the proposed model to justify the selection of the environmental strategies and the determinant factors for this selection. Endogenous factors are considered to be decisive for the organization to select and implement these strategies and with the exception of environmental legislation, exogenous factors have not exerted an overall important pressure on the organization.

The mining sector in Brazil has grown in the last decades contributing in an expressive form to the economic growth of the country. However, this progress has also contributed to the increase of environmental impacts brought by the mining industries include puts in evidence the need to define strategies well suited to deal with the particularities of each process or company. The main goal of this research was to develop a conceptual model matching environmental strategies with the sustainability dimensions focusing on the mining sector. The model was validated through two empirical approaches, including a Delphi study and a case study. From the Delphi study 28 environmental strategies were identified and classified in a work which is deemed to be relevant for companies targeting sustainability objectives and dealing with different environmental objectives. The case study addressed a large mining company located in the State of Paraiba in Brazil and showed both the relevance of the proposed model to justify the selection of the environmental strategies and the determinant factors for this selection. Endogenous factors are considered to be decisive for the organization to select and implement these strategies and with the exception of environmental legislation, exogenous factors have not exerted an overall important pressure on the organization.