Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in
Palgrave Macmillan

Innovations in Social Finance

Transitioning Beyond Economic Value

  • Book
  • © 2021

Overview

Editors:
  1. Thomas Walker

    1. Department of Finance, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

  2. Jane McGaughey

    1. School of Irish Studies , Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

  3. Sherif Goubran

    1. Department of Architecture, School of Sciences and Engineering , The American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

  4. Nadra Wagdy

    1. CID Consulting, Cairo, Egypt

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

  • Offers a new transdisciplinary approach linking finance, social innovation, community development, and sustainability to the rapidly developing area of social financial innovations
  • Serves as a practical guide and global reference for emerging best practices on the topic of social finance
  • Focuses on the transition beyond the traditional financial models and on the transformative capacity of social finance – in line with the transformative global agendas such as the UN sustainable development goals (SDGs)
  • Includes a breakdown of the current global products, tools, and processes with a focus on their relevance in different locations and scales alongside practical cases and comparative studies

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this book

Log in via an institution
eBook USD 149.00
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 199.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 199.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

Licence this eBook for your library

Institutional subscriptions

Table of contents (22 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxx
    Download chapter PDF

  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
      Download chapter PDF

    2. Expanding Our Understanding of Value Through Innovations in Social Finance

      • Thomas Walker, Jane McGaughey, Sherif Goubran, Nadra Wagdy
      Pages 3-10

  3. Exploring the Potential of Social Finance

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11
      Download chapter PDF

    2. Social Finance in the Anthropocene

      • Anne Snick
      Pages 13-34

    3. Social Finance in Quebec: An Ecosystemic Approach to Financial Innovation

      • Marguerite Mendell, Nancy Neamtan
      Pages 35-67

    4. Social Finance for Women’s Entrepreneurship in Canada

      • Zohreh Hassannezhad Chavoushi, Guang Ying Mo, Wendy Cukier
      Pages 69-96

    5. The Role of Youth in Scaling Social Value Investing: The Case of Canada’s National Social Value Fund

      • Bruno Lam, Steve Petterson, James Tansey, Mariana Martinez Rubio, Maxime Lakat
      Pages 97-119

  4. Innovations in Social Investing

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 121-121
      Download chapter PDF

    2. The Community Bond Experience in Montreal, Quebec

      • Jason Prince, Vanessa Sorin
      Pages 123-149

    3. Let’s Get Explicit: The Emergence of Impact-Linked Returns in the Commercial Debt Market

      • Lars Boggild
      Pages 151-172

    4. A University Model of Social Finance: Reflections on the University of Edinburgh’s Social Investment Fund

      • Dave Gorman, Julia Qermezi Huang
      Pages 173-192

    5. Opportunities in Patient Capital Financing

      • Julie Segal, Erica Barbosa Vargas
      Pages 193-210

  5. Digitalizing Social Finance

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 211-211
      Download chapter PDF

    2. Inside Money Creation in the Digital Era

      • Israel Cedillo Lazcano
      Pages 213-234

    3. Social Finance Investments with a Focus on Digital Social Business Models

      • Stephan A. Jansen, Clemens Mast, Wolfgang Spiess-Knafl
      Pages 235-249

    4. From Community Bank to Solidarity Fintech: The Case of Palmas e-Dinheiro in Brazil

      • Asier Ansorena, Eduardo H. Diniz, Erica S. Siqueira, Marlei Pozzebon
      Pages 251-268

    5. Social Finance and Agricultural Funding

      • Dániel Havran, Péter Kerényi, Attila A. Víg
      Pages 269-290

  6. Blockchains in Social Finance

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 291-291
      Download chapter PDF

    2. Public Governance of the Blockchain Revolution and Its Implications for Social Finance: A Comparative Analysis

      • Stefania Paladini, Erez Yerushalmi, Ignazio Castellucci
      Pages 293-318
Back to top

Keywords

About this book

Our world is experiencing increasingly complex social and environmental challenges. The prevailing business models and, to some extent, capitalism per se, are frequently blamed for these problems due to their neglect of social and environmental values in favour of financial returns. Within this context, social finance has attracted the attention of governments, organizations, entrepreneurs, and researchers as a means of mobilizing resources and innovation with the goal of establishing effective long-term solutions. This edited collection summarizes, discusses, and analyzes new innovative trends in social finance. It features contributions that aim to highlight emerging trends (products, tools, and processes) in social finance, present a series of case studies related to the development, deployment, and scaling of social finance innovations, offer an understanding of how non-economic externalities are being incorporated, managed, and assessed in recent innovations, reveal the disruptivepotential of social finance innovations by analyzing how they are redefining mainstream finance, analyze the scales – of operation and impact – of different innovations, and explore the complex relationship between social finance and social innovation. Featuring contributions from both the research and practitioner community as well as policy actors, the book provides more than a snapshot of the current social finance field by specifically highlighting the major challenges and difficulties that require the urgent attention of policymakers and social entrepreneurs.   



Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Finance, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

    Thomas Walker

  • School of Irish Studies , Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

    Jane McGaughey

  • Department of Architecture, School of Sciences and Engineering , The American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt

    Sherif Goubran

  • CID Consulting, Cairo, Egypt

    Nadra Wagdy

About the editors

Thomas Walker is a full professor of finance at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. He previously served as an associate dean, department chair, and director of Concordia’s David O’Brien Centre for Sustainable Enterprise. Prior to his academic career, he worked for firms such as Mercedes Benz, KPMG, and Utility Consultants International. He has published over 70 journal articles and books.

Jane McGaughey is an associate professor of diaspora studies at Concordia University’s School of Irish Studies, holding a PhD in Irish history from the University of London. Her research focuses on the intersections of historical and contemporary migration, gender, and ethnic discrimination.

Sherif Goubran is an instructor in the Department of Architecture (School of Sciences and Engineering) at the American University in Cairo. He is currently a PhD candidate in the Individualized Program (INDI) at Concordia University, where he is conducting interdisciplinary research on sustainability in the built environment within the fields of design, building engineering, and real estate finance.

Nadra Wagdy is an associate consultant at CID Consulting in Egypt. She is contributing to the development and scaling of an Extended Producer Responsibility program, working with the informal waste sector. She has extensive experience supporting cooperatives and not-for-profit organizations across their development phases: starting from validating their business plan and governance model to scaling-up their operations.    


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Innovations in Social Finance

  • Book Subtitle: Transitioning Beyond Economic Value

  • Editors: Thomas Walker, Jane McGaughey, Sherif Goubran, Nadra Wagdy

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72535-8

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-72534-1Published: 30 July 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-72537-2Published: 30 July 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-72535-8Published: 29 July 2021

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXX, 512

  • Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 20 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Economic Growth, Economics, general, Financial Engineering

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Back to top

Search

Navigation