Impact investment and the sustainable development goals: Embedding field-level frames in organisational practice

Castellas, EI; Ormiston, J

Impact investment and the sustainable development goals: Embedding field-level frames in organisational practice

Castellas, EI Ormiston, J

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Publisher:: Emerald Publishing Limited
Publication Type:: Chapter
Citation:: Contemporary Issues in Entrepreneurship Research, 2018, 8, pp. 87-101
Issue Date:: 2018-01-01

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dc.contributor.author	Castellas, EI
dc.contributor.author	Ormiston, J https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5295-0126
dc.date.accessioned	2023-01-03T22:11:20Z
dc.date.available	2023-01-03T22:11:20Z
dc.date.issued	2018-01-01
dc.identifier.citation	Contemporary Issues in Entrepreneurship Research, 2018, 8, pp. 87-101
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/164652
dc.description.abstract	This chapter aims to understand whether and how impact investment, a novel approach to financing social and sustainable entrepreneurship, is aligned with, and contributing to, the sustainable development goals (SDGs). We theorise the SDGs as a ‘field-level frame’, a cultural template guiding social and environmental change. We analyse performance data of impact investors both in Australia and globally and map this impact data to the 17 SDGs. We find that impact investors are engaging with language consistent with the SDGs a possible field-level frame to guide impact strategy and measurement. To date, impact investors measure social outcomes more frequently than environmental outcomes; this may be explained, in part, by our analysis that reveals some SDGs create greater points of leverage to generate layers of impact across SDGs. This chapter explains how impact investors are engaging with the pursuit of the SDG agenda.
dc.language	en
dc.publisher	Emerald Publishing Limited
dc.relation.ispartof	Contemporary Issues in Entrepreneurship Research
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1108/S2040-724620180000008010
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dc.title	Impact investment and the sustainable development goals: Embedding field-level frames in organisational practice
dc.type	Chapter
utslib.citation.volume	8
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
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This chapter aims to understand whether and how impact investment, a novel approach to financing social and sustainable entrepreneurship, is aligned with, and contributing to, the sustainable development goals (SDGs). We theorise the SDGs as a ‘field-level frame’, a cultural template guiding social and environmental change. We analyse performance data of impact investors both in Australia and globally and map this impact data to the 17 SDGs. We find that impact investors are engaging with language consistent with the SDGs a possible field-level frame to guide impact strategy and measurement. To date, impact investors measure social outcomes more frequently than environmental outcomes; this may be explained, in part, by our analysis that reveals some SDGs create greater points of leverage to generate layers of impact across SDGs. This chapter explains how impact investors are engaging with the pursuit of the SDG agenda.

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