Navigating Big Finance and Big Technology for Global Change

The Impact of Social Finance on the World's Poor
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-3-030-40711-7
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 186 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 388 g

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Impact Finance

The role of big finance and technology in social change is rapidly evolving. This book examines why large financial players are entering the social sector through social finance. Drawing on empirical research, the authors analyse the opportunities this new interest and commitment presents as well as the potential harm that can be done to vulnerable people when beneficiaries are not treated as partners and the social needs of people are not placed at the centre of the investment model. This book introduces a ‘Deliberate Leadership’ framework to help big finance tackle problems with no easy solutions. The book also analyses how current technologies (including blockchain) are being used and the benefits and drawbacks of different features of these technologies from the standpoint of the beneficiary and investor. The authors derive a series of insights into the model of technology for social finance and impact investing. Written as a practical book for students alongside a fieldbook based on an action learning methodology, this volume will be useful to those in social finance and impact investing.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Peterson, Gayle

Nicholls, Jeremy

Yawson, Robert

Jk, Ellen

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Sozialwirtschaft
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmensorganisation, Corporate Responsibility Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Nachhaltiges Wirtschaften
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Entwicklungsstudien
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Finanzsektor & Finanzdienstleistungen Finanzsektor & Finanzdienstleistungen: Allgemeines
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Finanzsektor & Finanzdienstleistungen Anlagen & Wertpapiere
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Sozialpolitik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Forschung & Entwicklung (F&E), Innovation
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Big Finance, Big Technology, Wicked Problems, and The World’s Poor.- Chapter 2: Wicked Problems and Deliberate Leadership: Finding True North.- Chapter 3: Promise and Peril of Big Finance.- Chapter 4: How Do We Know? Measuring Impact.- Chapter 5: The Surround Sound of Technology as an Accelerator of Social Good.- Chapter 6: From Theory to Practice.

Über Autor(innen)

Gayle Peterson, Lead Author and Editor, directs the Impact Investing and Social Finance programmes at Saïd Business School, Oxford University, UK and is co-founder of Oxford Women Transforming Leadership Programme. She is senior managing director of pfc social impact advisors. 

Robert Yawson, Senior Editor, is Associate Professor of Management and the Graduate Programs Assessment Coordinator at Quinnipiac University, USA.

Ellen J.K. foresees leadership, foresight, and management as crucial in an ever changing world and in the future of finance and technology.

Jeremy Nicholls is Co-Founder of Social Value International and Visiting Professor at Staffordshire University, UK.