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SROI in the Context of Policy and Governance Developments

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In this chapter, we briefly outline the policy and governance context in which impact measurement has evolved and which has a serious effect on the impact measurement discourse among social purpose and non-profit organisations.

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    As similar approaches, we may think of the IRIS reporting standards or the recommendations of the G8 Social Impact Investment Task Force (cf. Social Impact Investment Task Force 2014).

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  1. Centre for Social Investment, Heidelberg University, Berlin, Germany

    Volker Then

  2. Competence Centre for Nonprofit Organisations and Social Entrepreneurship, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, Vienna, Austria

    Christian Schober & Olivia Rauscher

  3. Institute of Management and Social Policy, ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Zurich, Switzerland

    Konstantin Kehl

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Then, V., Schober, C., Rauscher, O., Kehl, K. (2017). SROI in the Context of Policy and Governance Developments. In: Social Return on Investment Analysis. Palgrave Studies in Impact Finance. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71401-1_3

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