Closing the Gap: The Comprehensive Approach to Measure Societal Impact

Sina Sauer; Federico Bartolomucci; Maarten de Groot; Volker Then; Frank Jacob

doi:10.1016/j.socimp.2025.100111

Closing the Gap: The Comprehensive Approach to Measure Societal Impact

Sina Sauer
, Federico Bartolomucci
, Maarten de Groot
, Volker Then
, Frank Jacob

Management and Organisation

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Abstract

The growth of the impact investing market and the corresponding regulatory requirements pushes investors to adopt rigorous approaches to measuring the positive and negative impact of their financial investments. However, enhanced impact measurement approaches are still missing. This paper presents the Comprehensive Impact Measurement (CIM) model, an impact measurement framework that enables investors to measure the positive and negative impact of the corporations they invest in rigorously. This approach allows investors to include
impact considerations in their financial decision-making, increases transparency, and informs impact management strategies within corporations.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1-4
Number of pages	4
Journal	Societal Impacts
Volume	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socimp.2025.100111
Publication status	Published - Jun 2025

Keywords

Impact investing
impact measurement
Social Finance
Sustainable investments
SDG's

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