Purpose The purpose of this study is to analyze the intersection of research on impact
investing and its closely related financial vehicles. Design/methodology/approach The paper …

This study reviews all the academic contributions to research on social impact bonds (SIBs).
It responds to the need for clarification across and within the various perspectives used in …

Social finance and banking with an embedded social purpose have been on the rise in
recent decades. Social entrepreneurs have repeatedly stressed the critical need for financial …

This paper performs a critical analysis of the financial instruments that can be employed to
fund social innovation, with a specific focus on social tech start-ups that develop and deploy …

Not-for-profit organisations are increasingly being held to account for their social
performance. Due to their resource dependency, they generally rely on external financial …

Business models for sustainability (BMfS) are relevant topics on research agendas, given
their orientation toward sustainability issues. However, traditional versions of these models …

Social impact bonds (SIBs) have been welcomed enthusiastically as a new funding tool for
social innovation, yet also condemned as an instrument that neglects beneficiaries' and …

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Abstract Social Impact Bonds (SIBs) have alternatively been portrayed as a promising tool to
improve the functioning of welfare systems, or as an instrument of neo‐liberalism that …

This paper provides a bibliometric review of 156 articles published between 2011 and 2021
on social impact bonds (SIBs). We identified five research streams, namely studies that:(i) …