Varieties of Impact Investing

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 PhD student in Sociology at the University of Neuchatel, Switzerland and Sciences Po Paris, France.

1. The Pursuit of Impact in the Specificities of Place and Time – Philip Balsiger, Daniel Burnier and Noé Kabouche
2. Impact and ‘Impact’: Labelling and Identity in Finance – Marc Brightman and Aneil Tripathy
Part 1: Translating the Impact Label into National and Transnational Contexts
3. Socio-genesis of the Impact Investing World in France – Eve Chiapello and Camille Roth
4. The Regional Development of an International Phenomenon: How the Geneva Financial Field Framed Impact Investing – Noé Kabouche, Philip Balsiger and Daniel Burnier
5. Impact Investing at the Aga Khan Development Network: Origins of Innovative Financing Mechanisms – Farwa Sial and Jessica Sklair
6. Leverage as a Political Tactic: The Case of Social Impact Investing in Britain – Philipp Golka
7. Social Impact Investing in Italy: A Case of Weak Financialization? – Davide Caselli
8. Top-down Plus Bottom-up: Building the Market for Impact Investing in Spain – Lisa Hehenberger and Guillermo Casanovas
Part 2: Enacting Impact in Investment Practices
9. Defining and Implementing ‘Impact’: Negotiating Meanings and Shifting Interpretations – Claudia Campisano
10. Social Impact as a Negotiated and Collective Process – Guillaume Dumont
11. The Social Structures of Impact: A Case Study of French Impact Startups – Vincent Himmer
12. Market Exchange and Power Cornerstones: Local Understandings of Impact Investing in Nigeria – Elena Christodoulou and Shonali Banerjee
13. ‘Low-hanging Mangoes’: On Social Impact Bonds in Colombia – Natalia Gómez Muñoz
14. Blockchain as an ‘Anti-politics Machine’: Web3-based Impact Investing and the Reproduction of Inequalities – Riccardo De Cristano
15. Conclusion – Emily Barman