Varieties of Impact Investing: Creating and Translating a Label in Local Contexts
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.

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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Varieties of Impact Investing: Creating and Translating a Label in Local Contexts
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.

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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Varieties of Impact Investing: Creating and Translating a Label in Local Contexts

Varieties of Impact Investing: Creating and Translating a Label in Local Contexts

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Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.

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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781529252569
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Publication date: 10/21/2025
Series: Business, Finance and International Development
Edition description: First Edition
Pages: 304
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x (d)

About the Author

Philip Balsiger is Professor of Economic Sociology at the University of Neuchatel, Switzerland.

Daniel Burnier Lecturer at the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland.

Noé Kabouche is a postdoctoral researcher in Sociology at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, France.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Labelling and Enacting Impact Investing across Contexts - Philip Balsiger, Daniel Burnier and Noé Kabouche

Part 1: Translating the Impact Label into National and Transnational Contexts

2. Impact Investing and Philanthropy in the Global South: Innovative Finance at the Aga Khan Development Network - Farwa Sial and Jessica Sklair

3. Socio-genesis of the Impact Investing World in France - Eve Chiapello and Camille Roth

4. Capitalizing on Capitalism: How Impact Investing in Geneva Emerged among the Traditional Financial Field - Noé Kabouche

5. Impact Investing and the Politics of Leverage: Towards a Meso-level Perspective on Derisking - Philipp Golka

6. Social Impact Investing in Italy: A Case of Weak Financialization of Welfare? - Davide Caselli

7. Balancing Risks and Outcomes in Colombia’s First Social Impact Bond: Empleando Futuro - Natalia Gómez Muñoz

Part 2: Enacting Impact in Investment Practices

8. Implementing ‘Impact’ in Rural Ghana: Negotiating Meanings and Shifting Interpretations - Claudia Campisano

9. Relational Work and Power in an Emerging Market: Local Understandings of Impact Investing in Nigeria - Elena Christodoulou and Shonali Banerjee

10. The Impact of Ignorance: Sustaining Impact Investing’s Fictional Expectations - Daniel Burnier

11. Conclusion: Towards a Theorization of Varieties of Impact Investing - Emily Barman

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