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In this chapter, Golka builds on recent developments in abductive research methods to develop a way to apply abductive, qualitative research designs to concurrently address analytical and explanatory research questions. To that end, he also presents in detail the two data sets and analytic procedures used in the process. To understand how proponents framed social impact investing in order to forge cooperation with others, the author builds on a sample of proponents’ reports. To analyze the processes and conditions of whether and how these frames were accepted by nonfinancial actors, Golka crafts an extensive, longitudinal data set that includes interviews with key actors such as policymakers, but also government documents and media reports.

If you carefully consider the question of pragmatism you will see it is nothing else than the question of the logic of abduction

(Peirce 1934, p. 195, cit. by Timmermans and Tavory 2012, p. 182)

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    For example, an impact investor specializing in “sustainable” forestry demanded our German-Brazilian agroforestry company to purchase land off Brazilian smallholder farmers as a collateral for German asset owners. In multiple other cases, impact investors’ due diligence process was almost exclusively focused on questions of return and risk, while internal rates of return far exceeding 10% p.a. were demanded. One impact investor directly asked us to reduce pay for Brazilian smallholder farmers in order to increase investors’ profits.

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Golka, P. (2019). Methodology and Research Methods. In: Financialization as Welfare. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-06100-5_4

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