The objective of the thesis is to detect the role of Public Sector in Social Impact Investing market; the emerging relevance that Social Impact Investing market is acquiring at worldwide level and the gap present in the academic literature regarding the role of Public Sector in promoting, fostering and supporting this market, led to the development of this research. In particular, Portuguese and Italian case studies were set in order to clearly define the roles that Public Sector is covering through promoted initiatives. The research aims at responding to three different questions. First of all, thanks to the few works of literature available about the role of Public Sector, it has been investigated how it can support the development of Social Impact Investing market. Second, thanks to case studies approach, research detects the initiatives implemented by Public Sector for covering these roles and for supporting the development of the market. The collection of interviews and documents, subsequently codified, led to draft Italian and Portuguese case studies. Finally, after having identified the roles and established the relevance, we individualized reasons that led to possible deviations between initiatives planned, or recognized as fundamental, and those actually implemented. This brought to some considerations related to different roles and, in particular, to observe a mismatch between demand and supply inside the market.
L'obiettivo della tesi è quello di analizzare il ruolo del Settore Pubblico rispetto agli Investimenti ad Impatto Sociale; la scelta di questo tema scaturisce dalla mancanze di letteratura accademica incentrata sul ruolo del Settore Pubblico nel promuovere questo mercato e dell’emergente rilevanza che il mercato degli Investimenti a Impatto Sociale sta acquisendo a livello mondiale. In particolare sono stati sviluppati due casi studio, Italia e Portogallo. al fine di individuare chiaramente, attraverso le iniziative promosse, il ruolo del Settore Pubblico all’interno del mercato. Il lavoro si propone di rispondere a tre principali domande di ricerca. La prima rigurada le modalità con cui il Settore Pubblico può approcciarsi al mercato dell’Impact Investing e, grazie a una dettagliata analisi della limitata letteratura esistente, ha portato all’individuazione di due cluster di modelli principali. In secondo luogo, la raccolta di interviste e documenti, successivamente codificati, ha permesso la stesura dei casi di studio in cui sono stati identificati i ruoli ricoperti dal Settore Pubblico e le iniziative messe in atto. Infine, dopo aver identificato la rilevanza dei i diversi ruoli, abbiamo individuato le ragioni degli scostamenti tra le attività pianificate, o riconosciuti come fondamentali, e quelle realmente implementate. E’ emersa quindi una mancata corrispondenza tra domanda e offerta all’interno del mercato.
The role of public sector in social impact investing : a cross-country comparison
BORRELLO, ALICE;ZAFFARONI, SERENA
2015/2016
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The objective of the thesis is to detect the role of Public Sector in Social Impact Investing market; the emerging relevance that Social Impact Investing market is acquiring at worldwide level and the gap present in the academic literature regarding the role of Public Sector in promoting, fostering and supporting this market, led to the development of this research. In particular, Portuguese and Italian case studies were set in order to clearly define the roles that Public Sector is covering through promoted initiatives. The research aims at responding to three different questions. First of all, thanks to the few works of literature available about the role of Public Sector, it has been investigated how it can support the development of Social Impact Investing market. Second, thanks to case studies approach, research detects the initiatives implemented by Public Sector for covering these roles and for supporting the development of the market. The collection of interviews and documents, subsequently codified, led to draft Italian and Portuguese case studies. Finally, after having identified the roles and established the relevance, we individualized reasons that led to possible deviations between initiatives planned, or recognized as fundamental, and those actually implemented. This brought to some considerations related to different roles and, in particular, to observe a mismatch between demand and supply inside the market.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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