Chapter 7 What are the Upcoming Challenges in Impact Management?

Lavinia Pastore and Luigi Corvo

Abstract: In this chapter, the authors would like to highlight few essential point about impact management approaches and theories addressing three critical issues. The first one regards the evaluative object and the distinctions between impact models dedicated to organizations and those dedicated to projects/activities. The second issue concerns the relationship between impact schemes and sustainability metrics, with a focus on the overlapped, blurred, and frequently confused boundaries, as well as their developmental trajectory. Finally, the third issue concerns the various evolutionary stages of social and environmental impact, as well as the ...

Get The Impact of Organizations now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.