Guidelines for Social Return on Investment

By Alison Lingane, Sara H Olsen. 2004

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The Social Entrepreneurship Matrix as a "Tipping Point" for Economic Change (2008, background): “Consequently, Figure 3 introduces the Social Entrepreneurship Matrix (SEM), which combines the social entrepreneurial, mission-orientation Fig.”
Valuing the social? The nature and controversies of measuring Social Return on Investment (SROI) (2013, unknown): “resources to areas with the greatest impact (Lingane and Olsen, 2004; Nicholls et al, 2009).”
Social Return on Investment (SROI) and Performance Measurement (2013, methodology): “The practical difficulties we identified with SROI appear to support previous work (e.g. Lingane and Olsen, 2004) showing how organizations are unlikely to spend valuable time and resources on impact assessment unless it is of significant value.”
A Behavioral Theory of Social Performance: Social Identity and Stakeholder Expectations (2017, background): “Recent work has been directed at the related issue of quantifying social value creation (Kroeger & Weber, 2014; Lingane & Olsen, 2004), yet this research is still in its infancy.”
Developments in Social Impact Measurement in the Third Sector: Scaling Up or Dumbing Down? (2011, methodology): “The REDF model was constructed upon a ‘blended value’ model (Lingane and Olsen, 2004) where organisations could both achieve economic success and maximise social benefits.”