The paper aims to enrich the academic debate on social impact investing, through a formalization of Development Impact Bonds (DIBs)' structure. With this purpose, the research adopts an inductive approach and presents a case study analysis of the world's first successful DIB in education,...

This chapter suggests including family firms among the leading investors of the social finance market. Although social finance literature has largely overlooked them, we argue that large family firms possess the financial (e.g., profitability, capital structure, liquidity) and non-financial...

This paper utilizes the bibliometrix R package for a bibliometric analysis of 572 academic documents spanning from 1992 to 2023. These documents, sourced from 213 scholarly outlets via the Web of Science Database, focus on the governance, management, sustainability, and performance of football...

Cover -- Occhiello -- Dedication -- Index -- Introduction -- Financial structure and financing decisions -- Capital structure theories -- Capital financial structure in family firms -- The effect of financial crisis on family and non-family firms' capital structure: an empirical investigation --...