Navigating Big Finance and Big Technology for Global Change
The Impact of Social Finance on the World’s Poor
Authors: Peterson, G., Yawson, R., JK, E., Nicholls, J.
Free Preview- Examines why large financial players are entering the social sector through social finance
- Introduces Deliberate Leadership as a framework for social finance and impact investing and achieving sustainable development goals
- Explores the role of technology in social finance and impact investing
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- About this book
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The role of big finance and technology in social change is rapidly evolving. This book examines why large financial players are entering the social sector through social finance. Drawing on empirical research, the authors analyse the opportunities this new interest and commitment presents as well as the potential harm that can be done to vulnerable people when beneficiaries are not treated as partners and the social needs of people are not placed at the centre of the investment model. This book introduces a ‘Deliberate Leadership’ framework to help big finance tackle problems with no easy solutions. The book also analyses how current technologies (including blockchain) are being used and the benefits and drawbacks of different features of these technologies from the standpoint of the beneficiary and investor. The authors derive a series of insights into the model of technology for social finance and impact investing. Written as a practical book for students alongside a field book based on an action learning methodology, this volume will be useful to those in social finance and impact investing.
- About the authors
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Gayle Peterson, Lead Author and Editor, directs the Impact Investing and Social Finance programmes at Saïd Business School, Oxford University, UK and is co-founder of Oxford Women Transforming Leadership Programme. She is senior managing director of pfc social impact advisors.
Robert Yawson, Senior Editor, is Associate Professor of Management and the Graduate Programs Assessment Coordinator at Quinnipiac University, USA.
Ellen J.K. foresees leadership, foresight, and management as crucial in an ever changing world and in the future of finance and technology.
Jeremy Nicholls is Co-Founder of Social Value International and Visiting Professor at Staffordshire University, UK.
- Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Big Finance, Big Technology, Wicked Problems, and the World’s Poor
Pages 1-31
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Wicked Problems and Deliberate Leadership: Finding True North
Pages 33-57
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Promise and Peril of Big Finance
Pages 59-89
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How Do We Know? Measuring Impact
Pages 91-130
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The Surround Sound of Technology as an Accelerator of Social Good
Pages 131-153
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Navigating Big Finance and Big Technology for Global Change
- Book Subtitle
- The Impact of Social Finance on the World’s Poor
- Authors
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- Gayle Peterson
- Robert Yawson
- Ellen JK
- Jeremy Nicholls
- Series Title
- Palgrave Studies in Impact Finance
- Copyright
- 2020
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-40712-4
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-40712-4
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-40711-7
- Series ISSN
- 2662-5105
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XVII, 187
- Number of Illustrations
- 1 b/w illustrations, 25 illustrations in colour
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