Social impact measurement: Current approaches and future directions for social entrepreneurship research

Hans Rawhouser, Michael Cummings and Scott L. Newbert144 Views

Social impact measurement is very important in social entrepreneurship research. However, the standards for measuring an organization’s social impact are underdeveloped on both theoretical and empirical grounds. As a result, this article presents a systematic review of 71 relevant papers from leading (FT50) business journals that examine, conceptually or empirically, the measurement of social impact.