The methods of social impact assesment: the state of the art and limits of application

More and more attention is being paid to scholars and companies as regards to the phenomenon of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and to the measurement of social impact. The object of this review is to present and to shed light on social impact assessment methods and their limits that still today are present in literature. The descriptive review highlights that there is different classification of social impact assessment methods. Numerous studies have focused on these methods and on limits of application. The current status of the discussion offers new opportunities for future researches, which could be addressed toward the investigation of the real use of these methods by the companies for test the diffuse or not application about any of each.