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Social Finance

Social Finance is an academic concept within Sustainable Finance that denotes a financial mechanism designed to generate measurable social outcomes alongside financial returns, distinguished from broader sustainable finance instruments by its primary focus on addressing specific societal challenges through targeted investment.

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The Corporate Social-Financial Performance Relationship

Lee E. Preston, Douglas P. O'Bannon · Business & Society · 1997 · 1.4K citations

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The downside of social capital

Alana Dourado Portes, Patricia Landolt · VTechWorks (Virginia Tech) · 1996 · 1.3K citations

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Corporate Social Performance and Stock Returns: UK Evidence from Disaggregate Measures

Stephen Brammer, Chris Brooks, Stephen Pavelin · Financial Management · 2006 · 1K citations · Full text

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Portfolios of the poor: how the world's poor live on $2 a day

Choice Reviews Online · 2009 · 963 citations

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Research Notes. CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND STOCK MARKET PERFORMANCE.

Gordon J. Alexander, Rogene A. Buchholz · Academy of Management Journal · 1978 · 707 citations

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  1. AL
    Annamaria Lusardi

    George Washington University, United States

    8 publications · 1.4K citations

    8

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  2. OW
    Olaf Weber

    University of Waterloo, Canada

    7 publications · 339 citations

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  3. PD
    Peter Dia­mond

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States

    6 publications · 246 citations

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  4. MF
    Martin Feldstein

    Harvard University, United States

    6 publications · 500 citations

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  5. AB
    Armando Barrientos

    University of Manchester, United Kingdom

    5 publications · 111 citations

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Institutions

882

  1. National Bureau of Economic Research

    Cambridge, United States

    20 h-index

    36 publications

    2.2K citations

  2. University of Waterloo

    Waterloo, Canada

    13 h-index

    16 publications

    1K citations

  3. University of Oxford

    Oxford, United Kingdom

    13 h-index

    19 publications

    1.7K citations

  4. London School of Economics and Political Science

    London, United Kingdom

    12 h-index

    16 publications

    791 citations

  5. Harvard University

    Cambridge, United States

    11 h-index

    12 publications

    678 citations

  6. World Bank

    Washington, United States

    10 h-index

    14 publications

    764 citations

  7. University of Pennsylvania

    Philadelphia, United States

    10 h-index

    12 publications

    646 citations

  8. Yale University

    New Haven, United States

    9 h-index

    10 publications

    730 citations

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Venues

  1. SSRN Electronic Journal

    Repository · 90 publications · 3.6K citations

    30

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  2. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics

    Repository · 24 publications · 699 citations

    17

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  3. Sustainability

    16 publications · 722 citations

    15

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  4. Journal of Business Ethics

    15 publications · 1.8K citations

    14

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  5. Journal of Social Entrepreneurship

    JSE · 9 publications · 566 citations

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