Designing guidelines to monitor and measure the impacts of ethical banks’ operations
Goebel, Hans; Tran, Linh (2016)
Goebel, Hans
Tran, Linh
Haaga-Helia ammattikorkeakoulu
2016
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported
Julkaisun pysyvä osoite on
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-201605188377
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-201605188377
Tiivistelmä
During recent years, ethical banks established themselves as alternatives to commercial banking. While many major banks struggle since the 2008 financial crisis, many ethical banks count one record year after the other. Ethical banks attract customers not by high interest rates but thoughtful investment in social, environmental and sustainable busi-nesses and projects.
This Bachelor’s thesis deals with measurements and monitoring ethical banks do to en-sure that the projects they support by lending money are really done in an ethical, sus-tainable way.
The overall purpose of this study is to develop guidelines ethical banks can use to assess and monitor the projects & businesses they invest in. The objective was also to analyse the impact measurement and monitoring practices selected ethical banks use at the mo-ment.
This thesis consists of a theory part, an empirical part and discussions. Over the period of 5 months, data was collected through qualitative research. The theory is drawn to-gether from academic publications. For the empirical part secondary data from books & the banks’ reports were used. Additionally, the authors collected interviews with bank-ing officials to verify the secondary data.
This Bachelor’s thesis deals with measurements and monitoring ethical banks do to en-sure that the projects they support by lending money are really done in an ethical, sus-tainable way.
The overall purpose of this study is to develop guidelines ethical banks can use to assess and monitor the projects & businesses they invest in. The objective was also to analyse the impact measurement and monitoring practices selected ethical banks use at the mo-ment.
This thesis consists of a theory part, an empirical part and discussions. Over the period of 5 months, data was collected through qualitative research. The theory is drawn to-gether from academic publications. For the empirical part secondary data from books & the banks’ reports were used. Additionally, the authors collected interviews with bank-ing officials to verify the secondary data.