Позитивные изменения. Том 2, №4 (2022). Positive changes. Volume 2, Issue 4 (2022)

Article, 13 November 2022, ArXiv

Making our research results positively impact on society and environment is one of the goals our community has been pursuing recently. Although financial technology (FinTech) is one of the popular application fields, we notice that there is no discussion on how NLP can help in FinTech for the social good. When mentioning FinTech for social good, people are talking about financial inclusion and green finance. However, the role of NLP in these directions only gets limited discussions. To fill this gap, this paper shares our idea of how we can use NLP in FinTech for social good. We hope readers can rethink the relationship between finance and NLP based on our sharing, and further join us in improving the financial literacy of individual investors and improving the supports for impact investment.

https://clck.ru/32udLy

16. DISSECTING THE “DO GOOD AND DO WELL” PHENOMENON: THE CASE OF THE UK'S MARKET FOR SOCIAL INVESTMENT

Jess Daggers

Article, 2022, The British journal of sociology

The developing discourse around social investment and impact investing makes strong claims regarding the possibility of both furthering one's own interests while simultaneously acting for the benefit of others — ”doing good and doing well.” Such claims are central to UK — and US-centric attempts to reform capitalism in the face of multiple global crises. This article uses Foucault's writing on (neo)liberal governmentality to analyze a particular manifestation of the logic of “doing good and doing well”: the attempt to build a market for social investment in the UK between 2010 and 2016, a project closely related to the development of the broader impact investment movement. Building on a close reading of Foucault's writing on the role of self-interest, it is argued that two incompatible versions of social investment are present within the development of the market: one (the “innovative version”) that assumes purpose and profit are fully compatible, and one (the “principled version”) that assumes it is important to maintain a boundary between them. The relevance of these findings and the approach used is discussed in relation to the social studies of market, and ongoing efforts to develop a critique of “doing good and doing well.”

https://goo.su/XEvcn

17. MECHANISMS OF IMPACT INVESTING — FROM A LITERATURE REVIEW TO A MULTISTAGE AND MULTILEVEL MODEL

Deike Schluetter, Lena Schätzlein, Rüdiger Hahn

Article, 1 August 2022, Academy of Management Proceedings

Impact investing (II) aims at achieving an intentional social impact next to a financial return, thus embracing a high level of hybridity and potentially conflicting goals of different actors. We find that a growing academic literature on II is currently scattered across a variety of disciplines, topics, and levels of analysis with inconsistencies in terminology and concepts and a lack of theoretical explanations and frameworks. Our systematic and integrative literature review of 99 articles clarifies conceptual ambiguities by developing a typology of II differentiating a weak and strong interpretation. We analyze research based on antecedents, management and outcomes of II to provide an overview of common research areas and point to inconsistencies in the overall scholarly contribution. We develop a mechanisms-based multistage and multilevel model of the II market to link diverse current theoretical contributions and elaborate future research avenues.

https://clck.ru/33Hfqp

18. THE IMPACT OF FRAMING ON IMPACT INVESTING

Fatima Harvey, Kerrin Myres, Gavin Price

Article, 28 June 2022, African Journal of Business and Economic Research