Varieties of Impact Investing

Creating and Translating a Label in Local Contexts

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Published Sept. 22, 2025 by Bristol University Press.

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978-1-5292-5256-9
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A new trend in ethical finance, impact investing aims to generate positive social or environmental impacts alongside financial returns. But what does it really mean and how is it practiced across different regions and organizations? This volume explores the malleability of impact investing and how it overlaps with the development sphere to give finance a new role. From global networks to the Global South, it compares diverse investing practices and discourses. Providing an original perspective on this emerging field, this is a key resource for the scholars of social studies of finance, economic sociology, management and organization studies.

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reviewed Varieties of Impact Investing by Philip Balsiger

A Compelling Academic Collection

This collection digs into the world of impact investing, largely finding it wanting from a variety of perspectives. The entire space is admittedly fairly vague, which these academics jump on and interrogate is a number of noteworthy chapters. I especially liked Kabouche's investigation of Geneva's impact investing ecosystem, as well as the sections on Colombian social impact bonds (Natalia Gómez Muñoz), rural Ghanaian agricultural projects (Claudia Campisano), and impact investing in Nigeria (Elena Christodoulou and Shonali Banerjee). Even if you're a practitioner in the space, you'll get a great perspective on where current approaches fall flat and how to improve moving forward. Highly recommend

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