SOCIAL CONFLICT AND SOCIAL INNOVATION

2017 ◽  
Vol 51 (01n02) ◽  
pp. 3-25
Author(s):  
NGAI KUEN ALVIN KWOK
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Social Conflict ◽  
Resistance To Change ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Social Enterprises ◽  
Negative Side ◽  
Social Innovations ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Cultural Turn

While the spot light in recent years is focusing on the merits of social enterprises and their contributions to social innovation, this paper tries to look from a different angle on social innovation — on the relationship between social conflict and social innovation. From the perspective of social change, social conflict will inevitably bring about change even though forces of resistance to change may also exist at the same time. No matter such change is on the positive or negative side, and no matter how significant or immaterial it is, social change is manifested in the form of new social practices, norms, new values, or even new culture. Starting from an attempt on conceptualization of social innovation, this paper argues that social conflict can bring forth social innovation, provided that the former meets essential criteria and conditions. It urges for an enabling environment that will foster social conflicts into social innovations. It further argues that a cultural turn may be the keystone for such a change to occur.

scholarly journals TRANSFORMASI SOSIAL DESA ADAT MENJADI DESA WISATA EDELWEIS: PERPEKTIF TEORI STRUKTURISASI “ANTHONY GIDDENS”

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 53-73
Author(s):  
Setiyo Yuli Handono
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Structuration Theory ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Structure Control ◽  
Physical Conditions ◽  
Anthony Giddens ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The phenomenon of social change that occurred in Wonokitri Village, Sub-District of Tosari, Pasuruan Regency was very pronounced from the early 2000s until 2019. Changes not only change physical conditions even socially and economically also change very rapidly. These changes occur through planning and the role of parties from internal and external. The formulation of the problem includes: 1) who are the agents and structures in social change? Wonokitri Village (formerly known as Desa Adat) becomes a Tourism Village; The analysis in this research uses Anthony Giddens' structuration theory which explains the concept of agent and structure, space and time, as well as the relationship of structure with agent's social practice. This type of research is qualitative research with a case study method. Data collection uses observation, which is observing the condition of the village environment and various social practices of agents and the Wonokitri community in relation to the research context, interviews with key and additional informants, and gathering various documentation.The results showed that there were three main agents (tayuban / teropan: pardi and budi, jeep tourism and homestay: sukir) from the Wonokitri community who had influence in the community. The role he does in social change is through socialization, coordination, synergy and cooperation. The existing structure comes from the Wonokitri community and their social practices which are motivated by their practical and discursive awareness as well as the role of community leaders (Village Head: Pak Iksan), traditional leaders (Customary Chair: Pak Kadik) through their structural policies. The relationship between the agent and the structure in change occurs through the scheme of domination structure (control of the agent over the structure), continuing significance (the invitation of the agent to the structure), and achieving the scheme of legitimacy (justification for the agent's efforts by the structure).

scholarly journals Social Entrepreneurial Passion and Social Innovation Performance

2019 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 759-783 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wai Wai Ko ◽  
Gordon Liu ◽  
Wan Toren Wan Yusoff ◽  
Che Rosmawati Che Mat
Keyword(s):  
Social Innovation ◽  
Innovation Performance ◽  
Social Enterprises ◽  
Interorganizational Network ◽  
Community Interest ◽  
Network Connections ◽  
Solution Generation ◽  
Entrepreneurial Passion ◽  
Managerial Implications ◽  
The Relationship

We develop a framework to explain the underlying processes by which social entrepreneurial passion affects social innovation performance. The findings from a survey of 229 U.K.-registered Community Interest Companies indicate that social entrepreneurial passion can positively influence social innovation performance through creative solution generation capacity (CSGC). We also distinguish the moderating effects of different interorganizational network connections on the relationship between social entrepreneurial passion and CSGC. Our findings reveal that network connections with commercial firms are a stronger moderator of the relationship between social entrepreneurial passion and CSGC than network connections with other social enterprises. We discuss the theoretical and managerial implications of our findings.

Conclusion: local social innovation and welfare reform

2019 ◽  
pp. 217-228
Author(s):  
Stijn Oosterlynck ◽  
Andreas Novy ◽  
Yuri Kazepov
Keyword(s):  
Welfare Reform ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Innovations ◽  
Institutional Contexts ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

In this chapter, we draw a range of overall conclusions from our case-study based investigation of how local social innovations operate as vehicles of welfare reform. We reflect on the impact of the increased interest of policy-makers in social innovation and on the relationship between social innovation and other social policy paradigms, notably the established paradigm of social protection and its main contender, the social investment paradigm. We also discuss our main findings with regard to the mix of actors, resources and instruments supporting localized social innovations, the multi-scalar nature social innovations, its empowerment dimension and relationship with knowledge. Finally, we look at the consolidation of social innovation in specific welfare-institutional contexts.

scholarly journals Beyond Service Production: Volunteering for Social Innovation

2017 ◽  
Vol 48 (2_suppl) ◽  
pp. 52S-71S ◽  
Author(s):  
Arjen de Wit ◽  
Wouter Mensink ◽  
Torbjörn Einarsson ◽  
René Bekkers
Keyword(s):  
Social Innovation ◽  
Third Sector ◽  
Organizational Factors ◽  
Organizational Structures ◽  
Sense Of Ownership ◽  
Explorative Study ◽  
Service Production ◽  
Social Innovations ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
And Diffusion

Building on theories from different fields, we discuss the roles that volunteers can play in the generation, implementation, and diffusion of social innovations. We present a study relying on 26 interviews with volunteer managers, other professionals, volunteers, and one former volunteer in 17 (branches of) third sector organizations in eight European countries. We identify organizational factors that help and hinder volunteer contributions to social innovation. While volunteer contributions to social innovations are encouraged by decentralized organizational structures, systematic “scaling up” of ideas, providing training, and giving a sense of ownership, they are hindered by a reluctant attitude and a lack of resources . This rich, explorative study makes it a fruitful start for further research on the relationship between volunteering and social innovation.

scholarly journals Transformative Social Innovation and Multisystemic Resilience

2021 ◽  
pp. 493-506
Author(s):  
Katharine McGowan ◽  
Francis Westley
Keyword(s):  
National Parks ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Scale Up ◽  
Social Engineering ◽  
The United States ◽  
Intelligence Test ◽  
Dark Side ◽  
Social Innovations ◽  
The Relationship

To illustrate the relationship between transformative social innovation and multisystem resilience, this chapter summarizes three transformative social innovations, the National Parks in the United States, the internet, and the challenging or social engineering–like case of the intelligence test. Each case study demonstrates how innovations shift several systems as they develop, scale up, and even became challenged themselves, as well as the authors’ overarching assertion that transformative social innovation and multisystem resilience are deeply interrelated. Additionally, it is by understanding our social innovation history that we can be better prepared for our future and avoid the pitfalls of social innovation’s underappreciated dark side, the risk of social engineering. This chapter is based on over a decade of work on multisystem resilience and social innovation at the Waterloo Institute of Social Innovation and Resilience.

scholarly journals The Genesis of Corruption—the Dominant Features of Contemporary Societies of the Colonial Past Inheritance

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 201
Author(s):  
Miroslav Kuka
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Organizational Models ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
Institutional Practice ◽  
Social Innovations

One of the most significant characteristics of the contemporary society is the continuous and an intense social change. This continuous social change initiates a special subject of research into social practice, which envisages in social innovations, influencing to change the life style of citizens of a society. Social innovations are encouraged through the interaction of the institutional networks and individuals and changes can be visible in practice, processes, business models, and organizational forms, all in order to respond to a social problem. In addition to historical and political conditions, social innovations are also determined through cultural patterns, in a manner that not every social innovation will aim to develop potential and seek to answers to social problems. In contemporary societies of the 21st century with a colonial past (inheritance), the inherited cultural and historical patterns are just the crucial components which creating social problems, by developing organizational models of corruption, as a parallel form of functioning of the rule of law. The institutional practice within the Serbian institutions through a direct research in the form of this paper, considering period from 2009 to 2021, serves to analyze the genesis of the emergence and development of corruption, i.e., an illegal use of the system of positions (status) for the purpose of gaining one's own benefit and collapsing the rule of law. Simultaneously, the paper provides with a hypothetical answer to explain how corruption, as the primary form of a social innovation in the countries of “colonial democracy inheritance”, can potentially suppress.

How social entrepreneurship can contribute to upscale social innovation practices?

2022 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 0-0
Keyword(s):  
Social Entrepreneurship ◽  
Structural Changes ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Social Enterprises ◽  
Sri Lankan ◽  
Business Practices ◽  
Social Innovations ◽  
Theories Of Change ◽  
Innovation Practices

In this paper, we address the research question of to what extent is it possible to discern theories of change being built into the business practices of nascent social enterprises in ways that lay foundations for the subsequent upscaling of their social innovations? We argue that social enterprises that are ‘ready-to-upscale’ are those that clearly produce a solution to an underlying problem, and where their activities are clearly derived from the underlying problem, and also those activities clearly connect forward to deliver consistent solutions. We apply a Theories of Change approach to the concept of social entrepreneurship as a means of setting a criterion for ‘ready-to-upscale’, studying six Sri Lankan micro-social enterprises in which we can trace stories of impact. This provides a means to develop a model of the ways that social entrepreneurship creates the foundations for structural changes that reduce systematic inequalities, and offers social enterprise funders a framework to better stimulate emergence of social enterprises ready-to-upscale and deliver social innovation.

Understanding Social Innovation in the Context of Social Enterprises

2020 ◽  
pp. 1894-1918
Author(s):  
Iraci de Souza João ◽  
Simone. V. R. Galina
Keyword(s):  
Social Innovation ◽  
Social Enterprises ◽  
Social Value ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Social Mission ◽  
Social Innovations ◽  
Creative Generation ◽  
Successful Innovation ◽  
New Applications ◽  
Depth Interviews

In this chapter, it is possible to verify how social enterprises work on social innovations, as well as practices adopted by them to generate social innovation (SI). The SI is one of the ways of creating social value via solutions that enhance sustainable social welfare, and it is predominantly disseminated by organizations with a social mission like social enterprise. To verify how social enterprises work on social innovations, as well as practices adopted by them to generate social innovation, an exploratory study was developed. For primary data collection the technique of in-depth interviews with semi-structured script was adopted. The SI has the community as an active participant in the process, with successful innovation, in many cases, dependent on the collective capacity of people. The use of this technique for managing the processes of creative generation shows that companies organize themselves to manage the SI. Likewise, benchmarking was used in all three cases, supporting the theory that social innovation is not merely the fruit of originality, but also new applications for existing knowledge.

Managing multiple logics in partnerships for scaling social innovation

2016 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 446-467 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annika Voltan ◽  
Claudia De Fuentes
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Cognitive Theory ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Institutional Logics ◽  
Social Enterprises ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Social Innovations ◽  
Organizational Partnerships

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the field of social innovation by examining institutional logics at the level of inter- and intra-organizational partnerships for scaling impact. Design/methodology/approach The authors use a set of case studies from the Stanford Social Innovation Review to analyze success in scaling social innovations applying the logic compatibility-centrality matrix proposed by Besharov and Smith (2014), which aims to reveal the potential for conflict in organizations based on the diversity of logics present and the degree to which they are compatible with each other. Findings The findings shed insight on how individuals and organizations are able to manage logic multiplicity in the context of partnerships for scaling social innovation. Originality/value The authors build on recent work that recognizes logic multiplicity in social enterprises resulting from their hybrid nature, and the authors add to the existing debate by introducing to the discussion contributions from cognitive theory that help explain why organizational cultures evolve and scale out the way they do.

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