The Theoretical Foundations of Social Innovation

2012 ◽  
pp. 33-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geoff Mulgan
Keyword(s):  
Social Innovation ◽  
Theoretical Foundations

scholarly journals Adaptive Leadership and Social Innovation: Overcoming Critical Theory, Positivism, and Postmodernism in Planning Education

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Public Affairs ◽  
Adaptive Leadership ◽  
Planning Education ◽  
Theoretical Foundations

It is an unfortunate fact that adaptive leadership and social innovation remain underdeveloped as tools for professional planners and others in public affairs. The assumption, however tacit, is that if plans are drawn up with enough rigor, if planners possesses the correct set of skills, and if they remain true to the goals of equitability, collaboration, inclusion, diversity, multiculturalism, and access, the problems of leadership and social innovation will simply resolve themselves. Highlighting three theoretical foundations—critical theory, positivism, and postmodernism—the author seeks to provide a groundwork from which adaptive leadership and social innovation might be cultivated deliberately toward creative ends by professional planners and those in public affairs, rather than be left lingering in the background as mere ancillary functions to “best practices.”

scholarly journals Utilitarism as the theoretical basis of humanitarian criteria of social innovations

2020 ◽  
pp. 131-134
Author(s):  
A. V. Tonkovidova
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Theoretical Basis ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Functional Approach ◽  
The State ◽  
Social Innovations ◽  
Utilitarian Approach ◽  
Theoretical Foundations

The article studies the problem of the theoretical foundations for the definition and construction of humanitarian criteria for social innovation. The actual components of this problem of implementing social innovations in a number of areas of activity, both of the state and civil society, are examined. The possible grounds for determining the humanitarian criteria for social innovation are highlighted: immanent and transcendental. The utilitarian approach is presented in its various historical actualizations as a possible theoretical basis for the humanitarian criteria of social innovation. The positive and negative sides of certain forms of utilitarianism, as a theoretical basis for creating effective criteria for social innovation, are revealed. As a result of the study of the problem, it was determined that the humanitarian criterion of social innovation should include an integrated approach that combines a utilitarian approach and a functional approach.

Interconnected Areas of Research

2020 ◽  
pp. 190-211
Author(s):  
Derya Fındık ◽  
Erdal Akdeve ◽  
Gülsen Kaya Osmanbaşoğlu
Keyword(s):  
Citation Analysis ◽  
Social Entrepreneurship ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Innovation Studies ◽  
Organizational Relations ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Theoretical Foundations ◽  
Transition Studies

The authors aim at revealing themes in this research field throughout the years between 1970 and 2016 by using the terms of social innovation and collaboration together. They apply co-citation analysis to find out the theoretical foundations of this recently emerged field. Thus, they obtain six clusters with different attributes, such as cross-sector partnerships in social innovation, the definition of social innovation, transition studies, social entrepreneurship, innovation studies, and inter-organizational relations.

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