Accountability for social impact: A bricolage perspective on impact measurement in social enterprises

Greg Molecke and Jonatan Pinkse116 Views

Social impact measurement has become an important practice for social enterprises to meet external accountability expectations. However, the ambiguity surrounding social impact and its measurement causes friction among stakeholders in a social enterprise. This article investigates how social entrepreneurs deal with the increasing pressure to measure social impact using formal methodologies through a bricolage lens.