ISSN: 2455-0353
Dr. Jyoti Paul, Associate professor, Dyal Singh College, University of Delhi
Dr. Deepti Singh, Associate Professor, Motilal Nehru College, University of Delhi
Impact investment is a relatively new area which has gained significance in the era because of focus on Triple Bottom Line reporting. The Governments today are not merely asking for reporting in areas of environment, social and governance but also looking into the impact that such investments are generating. This paper is an attempt to review the literature in the domain of Impact Investing. The paper has used Biblioshiny to find answers to research questions viz the prolific authors, the significant countries, the most cited works in this domain. 1590 documents have been retrieved from Web of Science to have a bibliometric analysis of the data. There is an annual growth rate of 35.86% in the publications as observed in the area of Impact investing since 2006. USA is the leading country in terms of publications from authors in this domain. The emerging lines of research and motor themes were also found from the bibliometric analysis.
Keywords:
Impact investment, Social sector, Bibliometric review, science mapping
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