Social innovation: a territorial process

Dyck, Barbara Van; Broeck, Pieter Van den

doi:10.4337/9781849809993.00021

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“…in developing, war-ravaged, or transition countries-where policy problems need to be solved despite significant institutional voids [3]. One strand of literature assumes that new socially responsible initiatives need strong and functioning institutional arrangements, where the government, markets and civil society create and maintain an enabling environment for innovations [36][37][38]. However, another strand of literature empirically shows that social innovation initiatives usually emerge in environments that are institutionally deficient [7,[39][40][41][42].…”

Section: The Role Of Social Innovations In Rural Areasmentioning

confidence: 99%

Social Innovation to Sustain Rural Communities: Overcoming Institutional Challenges in Serbia

2019

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Responding to a number of longstanding challenges such as poverty, wide-ranging inequalities, environmental problems, and migration, requires new and creative responses that are often not provided by traditional governments. Social innovations can offer socio-ecological and economic solutions by introducing new practices that reduce social inequalities, disproportionate resource use and foster sustainable development. Understanding the role of social innovations is especially complicated in unstable institutional environments, e.g. in developing countries and countries in transition. This paper analyses nine social innovations in rural areas in Serbia, based on in-depth interviews and document analysis. This analysis reveals factors that facilitate or constrain social innovations whilst simultaneously identifying related formal and informal institutional voids, for example, poor law enforcement, a lack of adequate infrastructure, lack of trust, as well as norms and values that bolster patriarchal systems. The results that emerged from this research show that social innovations are operating in spite of these challenges and are facilitating improvements in a number of the aforementioned challenging areas. Some innovators engage in social entrepreneurship activities because of subsistence-oriented goals, while others follow idealistic or life-style oriented goals, thus creating new social values. Moving beyond these observations, this paper also identifies means to overcome institutional voids, such as creation of context-specific organisational structures, improved legal frameworks, and innovative financial mechanisms.

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Section: The Role Of Social Innovations In Rural Areasmentioning

confidence: 99%

Social Innovation to Sustain Rural Communities: Overcoming Institutional Challenges in Serbia

2019

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“…En la innovación social se ha reconocido también una importante dimensión espacial como proceso territorializado y localmente específico (Van Dyck & Van den Broeck, 2013;Moulaert, 2009) debido a su fuerte conexión a contextos concretos, lo que da forma y carácter a los procesos de innovación social (Evers y Brandsen, 2016;Von Jacobi et al, 2017). Este carácter territorial destaca la importancia de las innovaciones sociales como experiencias a pequeña escala (Evers & Ewert 2015) y pone de manifiesto la importancia de su desarrollo en territorios frágiles, como son las áreas rurales despobladas.…”

Section: La Innovación Social Como Herramienta Para Combatir La Despounclassified

Interdisciplinariedad en la innovación social frente a la despoblación rural

Valero

Marco²

2019

EARN

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<div data-canvas-width="537.7519333333333">This article explores interdisciplinarity in social innovation facing rural depopulation. For this purpose, we analyse the diversity of disciplines involved in the social innovation initiatives registered in the database of the SIMRA research project that are addressing demographic challenges. The results of this analysis show a significant level of integration of scientific knowledge in the social innovation facing depopulation, which evidences the need for interdisciplinarity in fighting depopulation and also its analysis, as well as the existing margin for more scientific fields to participate in this type of social innovation.</div>

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“…Despite its appeal and potential, a precise definition of social innovation remains elusive, and its current usage varies widely in the literature. Simply put, social innovation refers to innovation for social change [13], designed to satisfy unmet social needs [14]. Moulaert, et al [15] define social innovation as "the creation of new products, services, organizational structures or activities that are "better" or "more effective" than traditional public sector, philanthropic or market-reliant approaches in responding to social exclusion" (p. 1).…”

Section: Social Innovation and Ictsmentioning

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Collaborative Social Innovation in the Hybrid Domain

Aoyama¹,

Parthasarathy²

2017

Information and Communication Technologies for Development

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What are the institutional attributes that support the use of ICTs for social innovation? Based on the concept of the 'hybrid domain', we seek to better understand how various stakeholders with different priorities collaborate to combine economic and social objectives, and reconceptualize multi-stakeholder collaborative governance in the Global South. Using insights from behavioral economics and social psychology, we focus on two institutional aspects of social innovation-organizational arrangements and rationality. On the one hand, it is well recognized that social innovation stakeholders include not just states and commercial enterprises, but also NGOs, social enterprises, and for-profit/nonprofit hybrid organizations. On the other hand, the rationality that brings together these stakeholders is not well articulated. While scholarship has emphasized utilitarian rationality, we highlight the importance of pro-social behavior in collaboration. We argue that scholarship in the past century has focused on utilitarian rationality while neglecting the role of prosocial behavior in collaboration. Further research on prosocial behavior and its incorporation in organizational theory would contribute to understanding the dynamics of collaboration for social innovation.

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Social innovation: a territorial process

Cited by 54 publications

References 22 publications

Social Innovation to Sustain Rural Communities: Overcoming Institutional Challenges in Serbia

Social Innovation to Sustain Rural Communities: Overcoming Institutional Challenges in Serbia

Interdisciplinariedad en la innovación social frente a la despoblación rural

Collaborative Social Innovation in the Hybrid Domain

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