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How Are Impacts Identified? The Impact Model

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One key component of an SROI analysis to identify impacts is to create an impact model. An impact model is a logical graphical presentation of how an organisation (or a project) works under certain circumstances and which impacts it creates.

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Notes

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    We like to thank Georg Mildenberger and Gorgi Krlev who made important contributions to the previous German version of this chapter.

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    These figures are based on the systematic analysis of 114 international SROI studies published between 2000 and 2012, see Krlev et al. (2013: 37f).

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    This figure is based on the analysis referred to above of 114 SROI studies, see Krlev et al. (2013: 47f).

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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). How Are Impacts Identified? The Impact Model. In: Social Return on Investment Analysis. Palgrave Studies in Impact Finance. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71401-1_4

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