Social Return on Investment Analysis : Measuring the Impact of Social Investment / by Volker Then, Christian Schober, Olivia Rauscher, Konstantin Kehl.

By:

Then, Volker [author.]

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Material type: Text

TextSeries: Palgrave Studies in Impact FinancePublisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017Edition: 1st ed. 2017Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9783319714004

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Social return on investment analysis.; Printed edition:: No title; Printed edition:: No title; Printed edition:: No titleDDC classification:

658.154 23

Contents:

Chapter 1 - An Introduction to SROI - What is it about? How does it relate to other methods of impact analysis? And why does impact matter? -- Chapter 2 - Why do organisations measure impact? (A guideline) -- Chapter 3 - How to identify impact? (The impact model) -- Chapter 4 - How can impact dimensions be operationalized? -- Chapter 5 - How can data be gathered? (Research design and empirical approaches) -- Chapter 6 - How to prove the assumed impact? (Quantitative analyses) -- Chapter 7 - How to monetize impact? (Monetization) -- Chapter 8. Why is impact analysis helpful? (Options for using SROI) -- Chapter 9. How have SROI analyses been conducted? (Selected case studies) -- Chapter 10 - What does an organization need to for SROI? -- Chapter 11 - Concluding remarks and outlook to future developments.

Summary: This book introduces and explains how to conduct a Social Return on Investment (SROI) analysis. It discusses the various advantages and disadvantages of different research strategies and designs, and explores the different ways in which SROI analysis results can be used for communication, outreach, and strategic decision-making. It provides insights into how and to what extent SROI analyses can help to meet different expectations, and presents different social impact research designs and methods. It presents an analytical framework for the identification of a proper SROI analysis, and shows readers how to establish an impact model, introducing a stakeholder-based approach.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Indian Institute of Management Visakhapatnam	658.154 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		003190

This book introduces and explains how to conduct a Social Return on Investment (SROI) analysis. It discusses the various advantages and disadvantages of different research strategies and designs, and explores the different ways in which SROI analysis results can be used for communication, outreach, and strategic decision-making. It provides insights into how and to what extent SROI analyses can help to meet different expectations, and presents different social impact research designs and methods. It presents an analytical framework for the identification of a proper SROI analysis, and shows readers how to establish an impact model, introducing a stakeholder-based approach.

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