The Institutionalization of Social Investment: The Interplay of Investment Logics and Investor Rationalities

By A. Nicholls. 2010

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Subfields: Finance, Management of Technology and Innovation, Strategy and Management

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Social Enterprises as Hybrid Organizations: A Review and Research Agenda (2014, background): “Management mechanisms include crosssubsidization business models, leveraging mixed funding streams, accessing social investment funds and the adoption of new legal forms for SE that accommodate dual mission and make it easier to raise equity (Battilana et al. 2012; Nicholls 2010a).”
The Social Finance and Social Innovation Nexus 1 (2012, background): “…demonstrates a complex blend of logics driven as much by personal or cultural values as rationalistic calculation of a specified set of return on investment expectations (see Nicholls 2010b, for the distinction between wertrational and zweckrational investor motivations and behaviours).”
Crowdfunding and Value Creation (2015, background): “Nicholls (2010) assesses the investment logics of different types of social investors and develops a matrix of nine different models to examine the trends of social investment capital in the United Kingdom.”
Social Entrepreneurship: Definitions, Drivers, and Challenges (2012, background): “…the 1980s and 1990s field building organizations emerged that focussed exclusively on social entrepreneurship (e.g., Ashoka (founded in 1981), the Schwab Foundation (1998), the Skoll Foundation(1999), UnLtd (2002), the Omidyar Network (2004), and the Young Foundation (2006): see Nicholls, 2010c).”
Individual capital and social entrepreneurship: Role of formal institutions (2020, background): “This evolving category of funds seeks opportunities to lend to organizations that create social value at the same time as generating some financial return (Nicholls, 2010).”
Funding the story of hybrid ventures: Crowdfunder lending preferences and linguistic hybridity (2017, background): “portion of lenders are interested in organizations that benefit society to different degrees (Nicholls, 2010).”
What’s in a Name: An Analysis of Impact Investing Understandings by Academics and Practitioners (2015, background): “Although this claim cannot be supported by our content analysis, it becomes apparent in some of the scholarly work on social investment/social finance cited in the introduction (Moore et al. 2012; Nicholls 2010).”
Crowdfunding social ventures: a model and research agenda (2013, unknown): “In addition, closely related concepts to OR, such as Bricolage or innovation, are used to integrate OR and exploitation into a broader perspective of SE (Archer et al. 2009; Corner and Ho 2010; Marialaura Di Domenico et al. 2010; Fuglsang 2010; Nicholls 2010c; Shaw and Carter 2007).”
Social finance and crowdfunding for social enterprises: a public–private case study providing legitimacy and leverage (2014, background): “…and yet others examine social entrepreneurship as a pre-paradigmatic field and accept that there is no clear definition of the concept and that the very contest is necessary and fruitful for its further development (Lehner and Kansikas 2013; Moore, Westley, and Nicholls 2012; Nicholls 2010c).”
Social entrepreneurship education in higher education: insights from a developing country (2013, methodology): “Recently, institutional theory has been used by other researchers in this field, such as Townsend (2008), Mair and Marti (2009), Nicholls (2009, 2010), Dacin et al. (2010), Vurro et al. (2011), and Bacq and Janssen (2011).”