Monthly Archives: July 2015

Instituionalization of impact investing through societal management pressures: an action research inquiry

Impact investments are emerging as a new asset class of social finance. The article is based on on a three year action-research program conducted with Schneider Electric. It analyzes the perceptions of the Schneider Electric impact investing fund’s managers’ regarding emerging societal performance management procedures they were urged to adopt. 

Criticizing the Lucas Critique: Macroeconometricians’ Response to Robert Lucas

Abstract. The standard history of macroeconomics considers Lucas (1976)– “the Lucas Critique” –as a path-breaking innovation for the discipline. According to this view Lucas’s...