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Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given
area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject
in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of
travel. They are relevant but also visionary. This insightful
Research Agenda explores social finance and impact investing,
surveying the latest research in this area. It considers a range of
actors from across the social finance ecosystem, from investors and
social banks, to the entrepreneurs who propose sustainable
solutions and seek finance. Chapters discuss a variety of key
topics, including impact investing practices by philanthropic and
renewable energy sectors, the financing of social enterprises,
social ventures and the effect of banking on the Sustainable
Development Goals. The Research Agenda also examines market-figures
to provide a holistic overview of the social finance and impact
investing markets. Considering the perspectives of both investors
and investees, this Research Agenda will be a useful guide for
scholars and researchers in the areas of social finance, social
entrepreneurship, impact investing and sustainability. Its
evaluation of the challenges and successes of multiple social
finance sectors will also be beneficial for practitioners in these
fields.
Green Finance is heralded in theory and practice as the new panacea
- the ideal way to support the green transition of businesses into
more sustainable, environmentally responsible forms, by means of
incentivized financial investments. This handbook offers the most
authoritative overview of Green Finance to date, presenting the
state of the art, and including innovative directions from leading
academics and practitioners. It focuses on Green Finance in a
comprehensive way, discussing its characteristics, underlying
principles and mechanisms. The book carefully illuminates the
issues surrounding Green Finance and delineate its boundaries,
mapping out and displaying the disparate voices, traditions and
professional communities engaged in green and sustainable finance
activities. Specifically, it examines the Environmental in the
Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) measurements, while also
discussing the interplay between E, S and G. It develops a range of
analytic approaches to the subject, both appreciative and critical,
and synthesizes new theoretical constructs that make better sense
of hybrid financial relationships. Furthermore, the handbook
illustrates existing best practice and theory and examines the gaps
to derive the necessary future research questions. It highlights
the essential issues and debates and provides a robust research
agenda. As such, it helps to create an effective market for the
various green financing instruments through clarification and
standardization. This handbook will be the standard reference work
for a broad audience, encompassing scholars, researchers and
students, but also interested professionals, regulators and
policymakers, wishing to orient themselves in a rapidly developing
and increasingly topical field.
Artificial intelligence (AI) and Big Data based applications in
accounting and auditing have become pervasive in recent years.
However, research on the societal implications of the widespread
and partly unregulated use of AI and Big Data in several industries
remains scarce despite salient and competing utopian and dystopian
narratives. This book focuses on the transformation of accounting
and auditing based on AI and Big Data. It not only provides a
thorough and critical overview of the status-quo and the reports
surrounding these technologies, but it also presents a future
outlook on the ethical and normative implications concerning
opportunities, risks, and limits. The book discusses topics such as
future, human-machine collaboration, cybernetic approaches to
decision-making, and ethical guidelines for good corporate
governance of AI-based algorithms and Big Data in accounting and
auditing. It clarifies the issues surrounding the digital
transformation in this arena, delineates its boundaries, and
highlights the essential issues and debates within and concerning
this rapidly developing field. The authors develop a range of
analytic approaches to the subject, both appreciative and
sceptical, and synthesise new theoretical constructs that make
better sense of human-machine collaborations in accounting and
auditing. This book offers academics a variety of new research and
theory building on digital accounting and auditing from and for
accounting and auditing scholars, economists, organisations, and
management academics and political and philosophical thinkers.
Also, as a landmark work in a new area of current policy interest,
it will engage regulators and policy makers, reflective
practitioners, and media commentators through its authoritative
contributions, editorial framing and discussion, and sector studies
and cases.
Routledge Handbook of Social and Sustainable Finance brings
together an international cast of leading authorities to map out
and display the disparate voices, traditions and professional
communities engaged in social finance activity. With a clear
societal or environmental mission, foundations, individual and
group investors, as well as public bodies around the world have
become increasingly eager to finance and support innovative forms
of doing business. Together, founders and established businesses
alike are embracing new sustainable business models with a distinct
stakeholder approach to tackle social or environmental problems in
what they see as a failed economic system in crisis. As a result,
the topic of social and sustainable finance is at the forefront of
financial economic thought. This Handbook is divided up into three
parts. The first, "The Landscape of Social and Sustainable Finance
and Investments", comprises of chapters from a multitude of
perspectives in an effort to grasp the entirety of the landscape.
The second, "Challenges, Suggestions, Critiques and Debates",
focuses on areas ranging from sociological underpinnings to
critical takes on markets, and the identification of specialized
business models. Amongst ethical considerations, topics include the
scaling of impact, an analysis of sustainability as risk prevention
and comparative analyses of various methods of justification and
measurement. In the third and final section, "Markets and
Institutions", contributions range from various perspectives on
sustainable banking to environmental marketplaces, and finally on
to practical cases and country specific observations. This volume
is essential reading for both academics and students in economics
and finance. It is also of interest to those who study
environmental economics, microeconomics and banking.
Routledge Handbook of Social and Sustainable Finance brings
together an international cast of leading authorities to map out
and display the disparate voices, traditions and professional
communities engaged in social finance activity. With a clear
societal or environmental mission, foundations, individual and
group investors, as well as public bodies around the world have
become increasingly eager to finance and support innovative forms
of doing business. Together, founders and established businesses
alike are embracing new sustainable business models with a distinct
stakeholder approach to tackle social or environmental problems in
what they see as a failed economic system in crisis. As a result,
the topic of social and sustainable finance is at the forefront of
financial economic thought. This Handbook is divided up into three
parts. The first, "The Landscape of Social and Sustainable Finance
and Investments", comprises of chapters from a multitude of
perspectives in an effort to grasp the entirety of the landscape.
The second, "Challenges, Suggestions, Critiques and Debates",
focuses on areas ranging from sociological underpinnings to
critical takes on markets, and the identification of specialized
business models. Amongst ethical considerations, topics include the
scaling of impact, an analysis of sustainability as risk prevention
and comparative analyses of various methods of justification and
measurement. In the third and final section, "Markets and
Institutions", contributions range from various perspectives on
sustainable banking to environmental marketplaces, and finally on
to practical cases and country specific observations. This volume
is essential reading for both academics and students in economics
and finance. It is also of interest to those who study
environmental economics, microeconomics and banking.
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