Whose Accountability Really Counts

Thursday 10:45-12:15 March 26, 2009

Perhaps the most important issue in all social entrepreneurship is the relationship with stakeholders and how this is enacted in accountability measures and systems. Effective accountability can be seen as a key measure of performance success and the best way to capture mission impact. This session will consider a variety of practical and theoretical perspectives on accountability and impact measurement, with particular reference to the power relations which structure and influence judgements on organisational performance.

• Alex Nicholls, Lecturer in Social Entrepreneurship, Skoll Centre
• Simon Zadek, CEO, Accountability
• Alex Jacobs, Director of Research, Keystone Accountability
• Tina Dacin, E. Marie Shantz Professor, Queen’s School of Business, Queen’s University
• David Bonbright, Founder & Chief Executive, Keystone

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• Who Matters? Impact, Power & Accountability
• Innovations In Social Finance
• Expansion Finance For Social Impact
   

From the Skoll World Forum 2008:

• Empathy as a Tool for Social Impact - IDEO
• Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, What's the IMPACT of this all?
  

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