Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to thoroughly examine sources of mission diffusion and mission drift in the microfinance industry and to identify consequences of and remedies to these problems. Design/methodology/approach – Extensive field experience relating to individual...

Purpose – The paper's aim is to thoroughly examine solutions to mission diffusion and mission drift in the microfinance industry. Design/methodology/approach – Extensive field experience relating to individual microfinance institutions and industry trends provide the grounding for a review...

Cover; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Part 1 What Will You Invest?; 1 The Social Impact Creation Cycle; 2 Understanding the Investor; Part 2 What Problem Will You Address?; 3 Understanding the Problem; 4 Understanding the Investment Options; Part 3 What Steps Will You Take?; 5 How Social Impacts Are...

Front Cover -- Advances in Management Accounting -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Editorial Board -- AIMA Statement of Purpose -- Review Procedures -- Manuscript Form Guidelines -- Introduction -- Financial and Nonfinancial Performance Measures for Managing Revenue...

Now completely updated, Making Sustainability Work is the bible for applying real metrics and best practices to the often-nebulous realm of business sustainability. Mark Epstein and Adriana Rejc Buhovac provide concrete tools for measuring and increasing social and environmental impacts in a...

Front Cover -- Performance Measurement and Management Control: Contemporary Issues -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- Part I: Critical Management Challenges of Performance Measurement and Management Control -- Breakthrough Innovation: The Critical Role of...

List of cases, figures, and tables -- Foreword from the first edition / John Elkington, SustainAbility -- Foreword from the first edition / Herman B. Dutch Leonard, Harvard Business School -- Preface -- Introduction: improving sustainability and financial performance in global corporations --...