How to capture these benefits? Systematic review of Polish literature on impact measurement in the social economy

Abstract

The article presents results of a systematic literature review concerning measurement of the social impact of social economy entities and social enterprises. The query mainly covered leading Polish databases of scientific journals and publications as well as electronic university repositories. 463 texts were identified, 34 were included in the review. The article presents definition issues regarding social impact and the reasons indicating the necessity of measuring it. Social impact measurement methods most frequently proposed in the literature are also shortly presented: Prove and Improve, Social Audit (SA), Social Return on Investment (SROI), Local Multiplier (LM3), Balanced Scorecard (BSC), ESometr.