Social return on investment and social enterprise: transparent accountability for sustainable development

By Neil C. Rotheroe, Adam Richards. 2007

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Subfields: Business and International Management, Marketing, Strategy and Management

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Citations in the corpus

• Deconstructing the Way in which Value Is Created in the Context of Social Entrepreneurship (2018, unknown): “On the contrary, they need to account for the value of social benefits they create and deduct the costs of achieving those benefits in order to convince their stakeholders to stay engaged (Rotheroe and Richards 2007).”
• Social finance and crowdfunding for social enterprises: a public–private case study providing legitimacy and leverage (2014, background): “Especially, the social return on investment (SROI) has been investigated as a decision-making and rationalizing principle (Rotheroe and Richards 2007; Flockhart 2005), albeit within a certain scholarly stream only, and on the other hand, the very nature and legitimacy of measuring and accounting in…”
• Developments in Social Impact Measurement in the Third Sector: Scaling Up or Dumbing Down? (2011, methodology): “The original work was developed and adapted for use in the UK by the new economics foundation using a ten-stage approach (new economics foundation, 2004 , 2005 ; Rotheroe and Richards, 2007 ).”
• Social Return on Investment (SROI) and Performance Measurement (2013, methodology): “…Fund (REDF), 2000) and tested by the New Economics Foundation in the UK (NEF, 2004), SROI is based upon the principles of accountancy and cost-benefit analysis that assign monetary values to social and environmental returns to demonstrate wider value creation (Rotheroe and Richards, 2007).”