by Karen Wendt (Editor)
About the Author
Karen Wendt is the editor of the Sustainable Finance Series with Springer Science and Business Media, a series dealing with new concepts in Economy, Leadership, Investment, Finance, Strategy, Management, Exponential Tech, and Behavior. Karen is also a serial entrepreneur. Her mission is to merge economy and business with purpose and passion to implement the Sustainable Development Goals (#SDGs) using Choice Architecture and applying Theories of Change. She combines investment, strategy, ideation and mediation knowledge with investment and finance as well as network and movement building skills. She pioneered in the creation of the Equator Principles, the Gold Standard in investment banking for achieving human rights assessments and respect in business, de-risking assets from extra-financial risks and crafting a more integral approach towards decision making, opportunity recognition and positive impact creation.
About this book
Innovations and consequently future-fitness must form new models and address existing hurdles and new forms of collaborations. They must enable faster innovation cycles and "intelligence mining" by combining open and closed source systems, organic communities, open space techniques and cross-fertilization. Innovations must apply to and integrate incubation and acceleration networks. This book explores new concepts for future-fitness with five capitals: financial, ecological, social/cultural, human/personal, and manufactured/technological. It offers a new integral framework bringing researchers and business leaders together in one volume.
Brieft contents
1. The Purpose of Doing Business is not Business —It is Flourishing 1
PART 1: ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT FINANCE
2. Investment Turnaround—A New Way of Investing Based on SDGs 41
3. Innovations in the Financing of Energy Efficiency 59
4. Green Bonds: For You to Advertise only? A Compact Guide Through the Current State of the Green Bond Market and the Conditions for its Further Development 91
5. Pensions in a Time of Climate Change: The Inconvenient Truth about Fiduciary Duty 101
6. Innovative 21st Century Water Utilities 111
PART 2: SOCIAL IMPACT FINANCE
7. Social Impact Incentives (SIINC): Enabling High-Impact Social Enterprises to Improve Profitability and Reach Scale 133
8. Social Impact Bond: Beyond Financial Innovation 149
9. Swiss Investments for Development: Characteristics of a Market with Strong Growth Dynamics 172
PART 3: SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND TECHNOLOGY
10. Sitting at the Edge Looking for a Way to Create Scaled and Meaningful Impact 193
11. Preliminaries for Ecosystems: From Doing Well to Doing Good 226
PART 4: REGIONAL FOCUS ESG IN CHINA
12. Regulating CSR Disclosure: Quantity or Quality in Practice? 239
13. Political Connections, Ownership Structure and Performance in China’s Mining Sector 266
14. Corporate Income Tax Avoidance in China: Using Regulatory Change to Encourage Corporate Tax Sustainability 284
Index 307
Length: 314 pages
Publisher: CRC Press; 1 edition (January 9, 2019)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1498796737
ISBN-13: 978-1498796736