Editorial: Measuring social impact investment

Editorial: The Impact of ICT Investment and Usage

Measuring Social Capital and Its Economic Impact

This paper assesses the quality of various micro level measures of social capital. It begins by examining a simple model of social capital accumulation in which households acquire social capital by devoting resources to forming relationships with other households. Through these relationships households acquire access to social resources which raises utility for any level of consumption. Tests o...

Measuring Intangible Investment

Recent years have seen a growth in the literature on a variety of aspects of intangible investment, the complement of the more familiar investment in tangible assets such as buildings, plant, and equipment. For economic and business analysts this change in emphasis necessitates the selection of a meaningful metric for intangible investment and the firm’s total capital stock of tangible and inta...

Measuring Investment in Learning

Heart rate variability (i.e., low frequency:high frequency ratio) was measured to differentiate invested cognitive effort during the acquisition and retention of a novel task. Participants (12 male, M1⁄4 25.1 year, SD1⁄4 3.6; 12 female, M1⁄4 22.8 year, SD1⁄4 1.1) were required to produce Braille equivalents of English letter primes on a standardized keyboard in proactive or retroactive conditio...

Measuring and reporting social return on Investment : Knowledge transfer between a university and a social

This paper reflects on a Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) at Construction Youth Trust (the Trust) with London South Bank University (LSBU) that aims to provide the Trust with a comprehensive and internal process that will result in Social Return on Investment (SROI) being embedded within the organisation. The aims of this paper are twofold, firstly to examine the development and growth of K...