The Blended Value Proposition: Integrating Social and Financial Returns

By Jed Emerson. 2003

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The Triple Bottom Line and Sustainable Economic Development Theory and Practice (2017, background): “The concept is sometimes referred to as the 3Ps (people, planet, profit), triple value adding (Roberts & Cohen, 2002), and blended value (Emerson, 2003).”
The Institutional and Technical Structuring of Nonprofit Ventures: Case Study of a U.S. Hybrid Organization Caught Between Two Fields (2006, background): “New management tools, such as the “mission/money matrix” decision guide (Boschee, 1998), the “blended” calculation of financial and social returns ( Emerson, 2003; Tuan, 2003) and “thinking at the margin” resource deployment (Young, 2004), have been introduced for leverage against mission drift.”
Social, Environmental and Sustainable Entrepreneurship Research (2015, result): “Similar concepts had been explored earlier by other authors (e.g., Burke & Logsdon, 1996; Emerson, 2003).”
Managing sustainability with the support of business intelligence: Integrating socio-environmental indicators and organisational context (2009, background): “The two terms, sustainability and CSR, have progressively converged and today they encompass similar dimensions and are often applied as synonymous or equivalent terms (Emerson, 2003; Mazon, 2004).”
Measuring Value Creation in Social Enterprises (2015, methodology): “The existing studies in the field are based on the concept of blended value proposition, as coined by Emerson (2003).”
A Positive Theory of Social Entrepreneurship (2012, neutral): “It is also consistent with more applied notions such as blended value (Emerson 2003).”
The Institutionalization of Social Investment: The Interplay of Investment Logics and Investor Rationalities (2010, background): “Similarly, Emerson (2009) has identified ‘sustainable investing’ – characterized as investments that seek full (or above) market returns but which integrate a consideration of social and environmental factors(15) – as a potential market in the USA alone amounting to £1.”
Funding the story of hybrid ventures: Crowdfunder lending preferences and linguistic hybridity (2017, background): “As such, these microenterprises represent a hybrid of economic and social value (Emerson, 2003).”
Understanding the Social Role of Entrepreneurship (2016, positive): “The yogurt company Stonyfield Farms has improved financial performance through energy savings and waste reduction efforts which help support a profit-sharing program for employees linked to improvements in environmental performance (Emerson, 2003).”