Islam, SM2021-06-082021-06-08Accounting & Finance, 2021, Retrieved from: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/acfi.128040810-53911467-629Xhttps://hdl.handle.net/10292/14250Impact investing has great potential to contribute to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals by financing the growth of social sector organisations. This paper conducts a systematic literature review to develop cumulative insights into impact investing in social sector organisations. It identifies four streams of impact investing research: impact investment decision making, impact evaluation in impact investing, behavioural issues in impact investing, and impact investing ecosystem. This paper also identifies nine main research focus areas within these research streams and discusses key insights into each of them. Finally, building on prior research, this article offers a comprehensive future research agenda.Copyright © 2021 John Wiley & Sons. All rights reserved. Authors retain the right to place his/her pre-publication version of the work on a personal website or institutional repository. This article may not exactly replicate the final version published in (please see citation) as it is not a copy of this record. An electronic version of this article can be found online at: (Please see Publisher’s Version).Impact investing; Investment decision making; Impact evaluation; Behavioral issues; Impact investing ecosystemJournal ArticleOpenAccess10.1111/acfi.12804