Social impact measurement: challenges and promising pathways
Stream #10
Stream #10
Chairs: Hans Rawhouser (University of Nevada), Irene Bengo (Politecnico di Milano), Alessia Argiolas (Università Cattolica), Benedetta De Pieri (Politecnico di Milano)
Social impact measurement is an enabling and necessary tool for improving the human condition. Effective measurement of impact is complex and involves the participation of many actors (social entrepreneurs, decision-makers of social, hybrid and non-profit enterprises, financiers, investors, policymakers and academics).
Different types of organisations are increasingly showing interest in measuring their impact to assess the social value of their activity and increase their accountability. Funders and policy makers regard it as a way to identify and scale effective practices. Despite the increasing popularity of the practices, there are important barriers.
Some examples are:
This stream aims to bring together researchers from different backgrounds and disciplines to discuss promising pathways for facing these challenges. Particularly, we invite contribution covering the following or related topics:
This website uses cookies to provide you with a wonderful experience. By continuing the navigation, you accept the terms.
Okay!Learn moreWe might require you to activate some kinds of cookies. We use them to know when you visit our website, how you interact with it, to enrich and customise your user experience .
Click on the labels to learn more. You may also disable some options. Please keep in mind that some kinds of cookies are mandatory and that choosing to disable them might influence your user experience.
This kind of cookies is mandatory because without them you could not visit the website.
For this reason, you are required to accept them if you want to access the pages. You may disable some other kinds of cookies, which are described in the other sections of this informative box.
We also use external services, such as Google Webfonts, Google Maps and others. Since these organisations might collect personal data, for example your IP address, you may decide to disable these cookies. Please note that disabling these cookies might affect significantly the performances of the website and its aspect. The changes will be displayed after refreshing the page.
Google Webfont:
Google Maps:
Vimeo and YouTube video embeds:
To learn more about our privacy policy, please visit this webpage:
https://www.ucsc.it/privacy