Social Innovations, Institutional Change and Economic Performance

Hämäläinen, Timo J.; Heiskala, Risto

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“…These firms can actually be considered innovative start-ups because, as some authors point out [36][37][38], they are small technology-oriented companies that also share a vision and strategy to become global and/or international.…”

Section: New Technology-based Firms Technology Entrepreneurship and mentioning

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Does Social Innovation Contribute to Sustainability? The Case of Italian Innovative Start-Ups

Piccarozzi

2017

Sustainability

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Start-ups, among other enterprises, play a major role in the development and/or commercialization of new technologies and the development of national economies, given that firms are the innovation locus for an entire society. In Italy, a recent regulatory intervention has focused on start-ups creating a framework where innovative start-ups are defined and regulated. Among innovative start-ups, those with a social vocation are of particular interest, since they are understudied in the literature. Indeed, the aim of this paper is twofold: to analyze the relationship between social innovation and sustainability in the latter businesses, and try to understand how sustainability could be fostered through them. Italian cases of innovative start-ups will be studied through content analysis applied to the Social Impact Assessment Document provided by firms. Results show that the Social Impact Assessment Document provided by innovative start-ups explicitly pays attention to social innovation and sustainability in different ways. However, the document does not show the link between social innovation and sustainability. Nonetheless, going through these documents, the link between social innovation and the three aspects of sustainability (economic, social and environmental) clearly emerge and therefore could be better managed.

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Section: New Technology-based Firms Technology Entrepreneurship and mentioning

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“…The concept of social innovation is quite broad and refers to many economic aspects such as: institutional [38], social purposes [39], public goods [40] and also needs not yet taken into account by private markets [41].…”

Section: Social Innovation and Sustainability: A New Field Of Researchmentioning

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Does Social Innovation Contribute to Sustainability? The Case of Italian Innovative Start-Ups

Piccarozzi

2017

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“…Performance, (Hamalainen et al 2007) contains both an oblique definition and an explicit definition of social innovation. Both definitions emerge from the perspective of structuration theory and accept John Maynard Keynes' deep insight that ideas are more powerful vehicles of institutional change than vested interests.…”

Section: The Book Social Innovations Institutional Change and Economicmentioning

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Social innovation: Buzz word or enduring term?

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2009

The Journal of Socio-Economics

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“…However, this definition is considered scientifically imprecise as it does not account for social innovations that were not intended as social at the point of invention, or social innovations that were not delivered through social means (Franz, Hochgerner, and Howaldt 2012). Thus, a conceptualisation of social innovation that highlights a change in or new interpretations of institutional elements such as roles, relations, expectations, practices, norms and values is more desirable (Franz, Hochgerner, and Howaldt 2012;Hämäläinen 2007). As this paper adopts a neo-institutional lens, it favours the following definition offered by Franz, Hochgerner, and Howaldt (2012, 6): 'social innovation consists of new, more effective and/or more efficient social practices with social ends and social means' .…”

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“…Academic interest in alternatives that use the market-based solutions to engage 'base of the pyramid' markets has increased in the recent past (Alvord, Brown, and Letts 2004;Dacin, Dacin, and Matear 2010;Mair and Martí 2006). Actors driven by this social mission may engage in social innovation which, according to Hämäläinen (2007), induces changes in a society's cultural, normative or regulative structures. Thus, such actors may be considered as institutional entrepreneurs as they mobilise resources to create divergent change to address social problems (Battilana, Leca, and Boxenbaum 2009).…”

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Institutional entrepreneurship and social innovation at the base of the pyramid: the case of M-Pesa in Kenya

Onsongo

2017

Industry and Innovation

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This paper explores the agency of multinational corporations that perform social innovation under conditions of institutional complexity and resource constraints. Insights are drawn from a case study of Vodafone Group Plc and Safaricom Kenya Ltd that engaged in mobile money innovation in Kenya. The paper identifies three types of institutional voids that entrepreneurs can exploit to implement a social innovation: market, policy and social voids. Legitimating the social innovation involves appealing to the instrumental needs of target users, early and sustained engagement with policy-makers and redefining meanings of both incumbent and new technologies. The paper argues that spanning institutional voids-which provide entrepreneurial opportunities-also provide contingent legitimation narratives that can be targeted at different audiences. By mobilising insights from institutional theory, this paper provides a fresh perspective of social innovation in a base of the pyramid context.

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Social Innovations, Institutional Change and Economic Performance

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Does Social Innovation Contribute to Sustainability? The Case of Italian Innovative Start-Ups

Does Social Innovation Contribute to Sustainability? The Case of Italian Innovative Start-Ups

Social innovation: Buzz word or enduring term?

Institutional entrepreneurship and social innovation at the base of the pyramid: the case of M-Pesa in Kenya

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