2017
DOI: 10.31637/epsir.17-1.4
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How to deal with an "essentially contested concept" on the field? Sampling social innovations through the Delphi method

Abstract: IntroductionThis article addresses a specific methodological challenge in social innovation research: how to select cases for multi-case analysis? In other words, it deals with the practical question of sampling 2 social innovation. Three connected reasons explain why this question deserves attention. First, knowledge on social innovation has been built to a large extent on case studies. This is understandable given the importance of contextual factors in innovation studies. Second, case study methodology clea… Show more

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“…van der Have and Rubalcaba 2016; Amanatidou, Cox, and Gagliardi 2018). Moreover, this study has confronted the methodological challenges of operationalization and sampling that arise from this conceptual ambiguity (Bouchard et al 2015;Callorda Fossati, Degavre, and Nyssens 2017). Reaching beyond the fragmented evidence of exemplars, contrasting cases and "partial" typologies (Elman 2009), the empirical denotations of the SI ecosystems concept have been charted through a wider empirical variety.…”
Section: Conclusion and Discussion: Si Ecosystems Unpackedmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…van der Have and Rubalcaba 2016; Amanatidou, Cox, and Gagliardi 2018). Moreover, this study has confronted the methodological challenges of operationalization and sampling that arise from this conceptual ambiguity (Bouchard et al 2015;Callorda Fossati, Degavre, and Nyssens 2017). Reaching beyond the fragmented evidence of exemplars, contrasting cases and "partial" typologies (Elman 2009), the empirical denotations of the SI ecosystems concept have been charted through a wider empirical variety.…”
Section: Conclusion and Discussion: Si Ecosystems Unpackedmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Social innovation then remained limited to what Laville (2014) and Nyssens (2015) call a "weak conception", in which solutions were proposed at the level of the enterprise, avoiding the prospect of sustainable institutional change through public policy as well as of substantive workplace policy improvement (Callorda Fossati, Degavre and Lévesque, 2018). This historical episode perfectly illustrates why Ayob, Teasdale and Fagan (2016) are speaking of an "essentially contested concept", as social innovation is subject to power relations and to "endless disputes" about its meaning (Callorda Fossati, Degavre and Nyssens, 2017).…”
Section: Looking For Alternatives: the Need For Social Innovationmentioning
confidence: 88%
“…First we have considered the pervasive single-case particularism in SI research, reaching beyond the reliance on evocative exemplars (Cf. Jaeger-Erben et al, 2015;Callorda Fossati et al, 2017). Especially transformation-oriented SI researchers have urged to look beyond the intricacies of single innovation journeys (Lévesque, 2016), and to systematically compare larger numbers of cases (Howaldt et al, 2016;McGowan and Westley, 2017).…”
Section: Methodology: An Iterative Research Design For Middle Range Theorymentioning
confidence: 99%