Suchergebnisse

Sowohl in der akademischen als auch in der praktischen Literatur wird der Begriff Impact sehr weit gefasst. In Verbindung mit (uni-)direktionalen Beziehungen zwischen Variablen und methodologischen Rahmen, die auf einen positivistischen Ansatz ausgerichtet sind, wird der Begriff jedoch sehr viel enger ausgelegt. Eine solche verengte Konzeptualisierung ist problematisch insbesondere im Zusammenhang mit Initiativen, die interne, individuelle Veränderungen abzielen. Ich schlage daher vor, Impact neu zu konzeptualisieren, um menschliches Handeln anzuerkennen und Wandel ganzheitlicher erforschen zu können. Im Rahmen post-positivistischer qualitativer Forschung sollte der Begriff zurückerobert werden, da qualitative Methoden das Potenzial haben, ein dialogisches Verständnis von Impact und des intersubjektiven Kontextes, durch den Wandel entsteht zu erhellen.

Elaborating on a three-month ethnography of an impact investing fund called Impact Equity, this article aims to understand the mechanisms at work in the emergence of the impact investing sector. After presenting the case of Impact Equity (section 1), the article details the norms and devices through which impact investing is constructed in everyday financial work (sections 2 and 3) and investigates how impact investors mobilise moral beliefs and strategic motivations to navigate competing definitions of "social impact" (section 4). In doing so, this article outlines how the construction of the sector has involved the creation of channels enabling capital and "social impact" to circulate between institutional investors, impact investment funds, and "impactful businesses," and it highlights the historical tensions that this process has involved.

"This book contributes to the growing body of work addressing the processes and consequences of national governments' audits of the performance of higher education institutions (HEIs) in different countries. The book discusses one recent area of focus within these audits, namely the measurement of universities' societal and economic impact. The Research Impact Agenda offers a problematisation of the research impact agenda, especially in relation to the impact generated by academics based in schools of business and management. It scrutinises the often unintended but nevertheless significant consequences of this agenda for individuals and higher education institutions, such as the reproduction of existing inequalities in academia and the crowding out of other key activities of business schools. It puts forward a range of recommendations for researchers, policymakers, university and business school leaders, and individual academics. The book will be of interest to a wide range of readers - regardless of their formal position, organisational affiliation or career stage - who consider it important to reduce and remove inequalities and inequities within the HE sector and to make universities and business schools more inclusive. The readers will benefit from the opportunity to engage in reflection aimed at transforming the current framing, delivery and assessment of business and management research impact"--