Social Enterprise Innovation: A Quantitative Analysis of Global Patterns

Monroe-White, Thema; Zook, Sandy

doi:10.1007/s11266-018-9987-9

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“…In the pragmatic approach (Müller et al 2013;Monroe-White and Zook 2018;de Wit et al 2019), our case study confirmed several commonalities that were applicable elsewhere but also as well as some specifics that must be taken into account. Industrial changes affect many cities.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

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Creating social innovation in urban development through collaborative processes

Schnurbein

Potluka

Mayer

2021

Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research

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Uncertainty is a major factor in urban development as a consequence of a changing society. Major theoretical approaches to urban development, such as place-based leadership or coproduction, emphasize the importance of the public sector. This study aims to enhance the understanding of urban development processes as a collaborative and participatory concept through social innovation. We apply the concept of socially creative milieus to analyze the emergence of social innovation under the constraint of uncertainty. The criteria 'agents of innovation', 'adopters', 'diffusion channels', 'constraints', 'inertia', and 'impacts' are analyzed using a holistic case study in the field of urban development. Our results show that the presence of high social capital supersedes the coercive power of the public sector. By applying the creative milieus approach, environments like the density of networks and contacts in the governance of urban places make innovative development possible.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 77%

Creating social innovation in urban development through collaborative processes

Schnurbein

Potluka

Mayer

2021

Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research

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“…This suggests that the business models and social impacts of SEs evolve along with social developments, and as a result, SEs come in different forms and have different patterns. The six indicators proposed by this paper are in line with the macro-and microperspectives taken in previous studies [19,20]. The terms social, opportunity and change can be meaningful for the use of macrometrics.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 73%

“…A macroapproach should be taken to examine the influence of politics, education and advocacy activities. Monroe-White and Zook [20] argue that macrosystems affect innovation factors such as the products, marketing and business models of SEs. Ghods [21] identifies the four elements of entrepreneurial marketing for SEs: market competition, capital access, volunteer recruitment and the provision of products/services for targeted audiences.…”

Section: Social Enterprisementioning

confidence: 99%

Topic Modeling Analysis of Social Enterprises: Twitter Evidence

Kao

Luarn

2020

Sustainability

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Social media is a major channel used for communication by professional and social groups. The text posted on social media contains extremely rich information. To capture the development of social enterprises (SEs), this paper examines the tweets posted on Twitter and searches the hashtags on the Twitter Application Programming Interface (API) that SEs deem to be the most important. The results suggest that these tweets can be divided into three content groups (strategy, impact and business). This paper expands this into four dimensions (strategy, impact, business and people) and six indicators (social, opportunity, change, enterprise, network and team) and establishes a conceptual framework of SEs. This paper aims to enhance the understanding of the pertinent issues recently affecting SEs and extract findings that can act as a reference for follow-up studies.

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“…Based on this definition, we explored whether the funded projects composed elements of the four types of innovations, including product innovation (the implementation of a new or improved product or service), process innovation (the implementation of a new or improved production or delivery method), marketing innovation (the implementation of a new marketing method), and organizational innovation (the implementation of a new organizational method in the firm's business practice, workplace organization or external relations). This coding scheme has been used in previous work to examine social enterprise innovation (Monroe‐White & Zook, ). However, this operational definition of innovation was not developed specifically for social innovation, and one obvious omission on the types of (social) innovation is the development of new social practices to solve societal problems, which has frequently been described as the key essence in social innovation literature (Cajaiba‐Santana, ; Pol & Ville, ).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Indeed, some scholars contend that one of the most important factors accounting for the region's rapid growth of social enterprises lies in the “public policies that were implemented” (Defourny & Kim, , p. 90). Even in more democratic societies, substantial efforts have been dedicated to understanding the effects of various macro‐institutional factors in facilitating or impeding social innovation and social enterprise development (Cooney, Nyssens, O'Shaughnessy, & Defourny, ; Monroe‐White, Kerlin, & Zook, ; Monroe‐White & Zook, ; Nicholls & Teasdale, ).…”

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The role of the social innovation and entrepreneurship development fund in fostering social entrepreneurship in Hong Kong: A study on public policy innovation

Chan

Chui²,

Chan

et al. 2019

Soc Policy Adm

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Creating an enabling environment for social entrepreneurship in tackling complex socio‐economic challenges is at the forefront of government policy agendas globally. Although several policy mechanisms have been proposed to this end, whether and to what extent those policy mechanisms may (re)shape the social entrepreneurship environments have rarely been explored. By examining the Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Fund (SIE Fund), a recent policy project aimed at fostering social innovation in Hong Kong, this article presents a rare empirical exploration to illustrate how public policies can potentially drive social innovation. We explore first the impact of the SIE Fund in fostering innovation among its funded social enterprises, and second, how the SIE Fund may have influenced Hong Kong's social entrepreneurship environment. Results show that the projects under the SIE Fund exhibit characteristics distinct from the social enterprises prior to the inception of the SIE Fund. In addition, evidence of innovations in terms of product, process, marketing, and innovation in developing new or improved social practices were also identified. This study illustrates how specific public policy mechanisms may potentially facilitate the diversification, inclusion, innovation, and expansion of the social entrepreneurship environment. Findings carry substantial policy implications, in particular to neighbouring East Asian societies typically characterized by a strong government, and face similar structural, demographic and socio‐economic challenges that necessitate innovative solutions.

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Social Enterprise Innovation: A Quantitative Analysis of Global Patterns

Cited by 19 publications

References 45 publications

Creating social innovation in urban development through collaborative processes

Creating social innovation in urban development through collaborative processes

Topic Modeling Analysis of Social Enterprises: Twitter Evidence

The role of the social innovation and entrepreneurship development fund in fostering social entrepreneurship in Hong Kong: A study on public policy innovation

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