Social Innovation in Disability Nonprofits: An Abductive Study of Capabilities for Social Change

2019 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 399-423 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel Taylor ◽  
Nuttaneeya (Ann) Torugsa ◽  
Anthony Arundel
Keyword(s):  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
System Level ◽  
Insurance Scheme ◽  
Complex Interplay ◽  
Innovation Development ◽  
Complexity Leadership ◽  
Extensive Field ◽  
Social Innovations ◽  
Social Policy Reform

This study uses an abduction-based approach to identify the capabilities harnessed by nonprofit organizations (NPOs) as they develop social innovations. The context of this study is the Australian disability sector currently undergoing a once-in-a-generation social policy reform with the implementation of the National Disability Insurance Scheme. Data from extensive field observation and 52 interviews were collected during “researcher-in-residences” at two disability NPOs and analyzed using thematic coding and practice–theory iteration to arrive at a “working” hypothesis. The findings reveal many capabilities used by disability NPOs on the path to social innovation development. The complex interplay of these capabilities forms five pivotal capabilities (i.e., transformational empathy, place-based relationing, diversity learning, paradoxical change making, and complexity leadership) for eliciting nonprofit social innovation (NSI) with community and system-level impacts.

Building Theories-in-Practice on Social Innovation in Disability Nonprofit Organizations

2020 ◽  
pp. 212-250
Author(s):  
Rachel Taylor ◽  
Nuttaneeya (Ann) Torugsa
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Theory Building ◽  
System Level ◽  
Social Challenges ◽  
Causal Mechanisms ◽  
Social Innovations

This chapter discusses the key theoretical and empirical steps undertaken throughout the authors' previous-but-related mixed methods studies on social innovation in nonprofit organizations (NPOs) in the Australian disability sector with the aim of using the key findings of these studies to develop ‘theories-in-practice' in disability NPOs. In this chapter, the authors summarize the associated theory-building processes deployed to explain how disability NPOs develop and implement social innovations and the societal ‘system-level' impacts of such innovations. These theory-building processes involve two broad phases, and the culmination of these phases (grounded in the abductive logics of inquiry, complexity theorizing, and set-theoretic methods) leads to the development of several ‘theories-to-practice' that not only convey the interactivity of contextual causal mechanisms leading to social innovation by NPOs, but also outline change-oriented solutions for managers who are working to address complex social challenges.

Building Theories-in-Practice on Social Innovation in Disability Nonprofit Organizations

2022 ◽  
pp. 143-172
Author(s):  
Rachel Taylor ◽  
Nuttaneeya (Ann) Torugsa
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Theory Building ◽  
System Level ◽  
Social Challenges ◽  
Causal Mechanisms ◽  
Social Innovations

This chapter discusses the key theoretical and empirical steps undertaken throughout the authors' previous-but-related mixed methods studies on social innovation in nonprofit organizations (NPOs) in the Australian disability sector with the aim of using the key findings of these studies to develop ‘theories-in-practice' in disability NPOs. In this chapter, the authors summarize the associated theory-building processes deployed to explain how disability NPOs develop and implement social innovations and the societal ‘system-level' impacts of such innovations. These theory-building processes involve two broad phases, and the culmination of these phases (grounded in the abductive logics of inquiry, complexity theorizing, and set-theoretic methods) leads to the development of several ‘theories-to-practice' that not only convey the interactivity of contextual causal mechanisms leading to social innovation by NPOs, but also outline change-oriented solutions for managers who are working to address complex social challenges.

scholarly journals Modelo descritivo de atuação sustentável para o desenvolvimento de inovações sociais

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 241-262
Author(s):  
Priscila Rezende Da Costa ◽  
Lucimar da Silva Itelvino ◽  
Sonia Francisca Monken
Keyword(s):  
Social Transformation ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Social Impacts ◽  
Social Business ◽  
Descriptive Model ◽  
Innovation Development ◽  
Sustainable Performance ◽  
Social Innovations

Purpose: The concept of social innovation as open, collaborative and social transformation process opens room to reinforce the need of legitimizing social impact businesses and of expanding partnerships for social change, as well as the urgency of establishing professional and more sustainable social innovation environments. Accordingly, we tried to answer the following research question: How can social business performance boost the development of social innovations?Design/methodology/approach: Therefore, we adopted the inductive approach of qualitative paradigm, based on the Grounded Theory, to investigate 24 social businesses. In addition, we adopted the Atlas.ti software for data organization and recovery.Aggregate results allowed us to  propose a descriptive model of sustainable performance for the development of social innovations in social business, based on the following propositions: sustainable performance in processes and social innovation, the prevalence of a cooperative environment to solve social issues, professional governance as causal factor to social innovation development, the development of actions focused on public interests as influencing conditions for social innovation development, technical and scientific evaluation of social impacts as strategy to measure the outcomes of developed innovations and the expansion of social impacts as the consequence of the self-negotiation of social affairs.Originality/value: A descriptive model of sustainable acting was proposed for the development of social innovations in social businesses.

Impact of social innovations оn regional development: conceptual framework

2018 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 91-88
Author(s):  
T. S. Soloveva
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Regional Development ◽  
Conceptual Model ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Social Progress ◽  
Innovation Development ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Innovations ◽  
Functional Features

The article deals with the role and directions of the social innovations’ impact on regional development. In retrospect, the author considers the essence of social innovations. The functional features of social innovations have been highlighted. A conceptual model of the social innovations’ impact on regional development has been proposed. The results obtained made it possible to formulate the main vectors of social innovation development as a factor of social progress and economic growth of a region.

scholarly journals The Process of Social Innovation Scalability: What is the Role of Dynamic Capabilities?

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 21-38
Author(s):  
Tatiane Martins Cruz Pirotti ◽  
Cláudia Cristina Bitencourt ◽  
Kadígia Faccin ◽  
Caroline Kretschmer
Keyword(s):  
Dynamic Capabilities ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Single Case ◽  
Term Survival ◽  
Innovation Development ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Innovations

Social innovations are important tools for minimizing or solving social problems. However, significant challenges remain in managing social innovation development for long-term survival and expanding its social impacts to generate scalability. This process can be supported by dynamic capabilities and their microprocesses. By conducting a single case study, we aim to contribute to the stream of research on management of social innovation that analyzes the ways in which dynamic capabilities can influence the scalability process of social innovation. Our contribution arises from generating an understanding of how and why dynamic capabilities influence the social innovation scalability process.

Thriving Within the Turbulence

2019 ◽  
pp. 36-61
Author(s):  
Rachel Taylor ◽  
Nuttaneeya (Ann) Torugsa ◽  
Anthony Arundel
Keyword(s):  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
Complexity Theory ◽  
Support Services ◽  
Resource Dependence ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Resource Dependence Theory ◽  
Disability Support Services ◽  
Edge Of Chaos ◽  
Disability Support ◽  
Social Innovations

This chapter embraces complexity theory as a basis for theorizing social innovation in nonprofit organizations (NPOs) operating in the Australian disability sector, which is currently grappling with the implementation of a disruptive policy reform leading to a paradigm shift in the funding of disability support services, the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). To cope and thrive within a new NDIS-fueled marketplace, disability NPOs need to pursue socially innovative agendas. Through a review of cross-disciplinary literatures on social innovation and the use of a complexity theorizing approach that integrates multiple theories (i.e. institutional theory, resource dependence theory, and user innovation theory), this chapter proposes a holistic complexity-based framework that can potentially: explain how disability NPOs develop social innovations operating at the edge of chaos, help improve the ability of research to tackle societal and managerial problems, and hence strengthen management scholarship.

Are Ethnic Entrepreneurs Social Innovators? Turkish Migrant Entrepreneurs in Salzburg

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 363-371
Author(s):  
Heiko Berner
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Strict Sense ◽  
Labour Market Situation ◽  
Ethnic Business ◽  
Turkish Migrants ◽  
Social Innovations ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Ethnic Businesses

Social innovations are targeted measures that are capable to resolve social problems (Rammert 2010) and they are directed towards an improvement of the situation (Gillwald 2000). Finally, they are directed towards an amelioration of the situation (Gillwald 2000). In Austria it is argued that ethnic business represents a type of social innovation (Haberfellner 2000). The question the paper addresses is if and to what extent ethnic business goes hand in hand with social developments and possibly boosts social change. Entrepreneurs of Turkish origin in Salzburg are the focus of analysis. The paper starts with a definition of the term ‚social innovation‘ (1), the issues of ethnic vs. migrant business (2.), followed by the description of the labour market situation of Turkish migrants in Salzburg and discrimination in the labour market (3.), and, to to round up, the analysis of biographic interviews with Turkish entrepreneurs in Salzburg (4.). The preliminary results show that there exist social problems such as the lower socio-economic situation of Turkish migrants in Salzburg and discrimination in the labour market. These problems can be seen as basis for the need of social innovations. But nevertheless Turkish run ethnic businesses in a strict sense of the word are no social innovation because they do not act against the problems in an intended way; they rather work on their own account. They may overcome disadvantages on the labour market but their actions are not directed towards overcoming the problem per se. It is much rather a transintentional aspect (Schimank 2010), which goes beyond the economic interest of the actors.

scholarly journals DEFINITION OF DRIVING FACTORS FOR DESIGNING SOCIAL INNOVATIONS IN THE ENERGY SECTOR

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 891-900
Author(s):  
Iban Lizarralde ◽  
Audrey Abi Akle ◽  
Mikhail Hamwi ◽  
Basma Samir
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Energy Transition ◽  
Clean Energy ◽  
Energy Sector ◽  
Social Innovations ◽  
Main Factors ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Energy Community ◽  
New Criteria

AbstractCurrent development of renewable energy systems (RES) is characterised by an increasing participation of citizens in the upstream decision-making process. These citizens can be future users of the RES but also members of a Renewable Energy Community that develop RES. They can be at the same time Renewable Energy producer, investor and consumer. Moreover, several type of businesses and terms are used to cope with social innovations within the energy sector: local renewable projects, sustainable energy communities or community of renewable energy production. So, actors' engagement opens new solutions for designers who are induced to share alternatives before making decisions. They usually impose constraints since the early phases of the design process. This approach implies for designers to consider new criteria related to citizens motivations and barriers. This paper presents a study to define the main factors that drive people to contribute in social innovation schemes for clean-energy transition. After a state of the art, a survey about 6 main factors and 18 criteria is presented. The analysis based on the responses from 34 participants (i.e. experts) reveals 2 most important factors of motivation and 2 principal barrier sources.

Support of Social Innovations

2017 ◽  
pp. 165-187 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jarmila Šebestová ◽  
Zuzana Palová
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Financial Support ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Theoretical Knowledge ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Social Innovations ◽  
Positive Externality ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Support Evaluation

The aim of this chapter is to summarize the theoretical knowledge from the field of social entrepreneurship and the creation of social innovation and highlight the impact EU funds have on the development of social innovation in selected regions of the Czech Republic. The authors assumed that there could be a positive link between the amount of financial support and the number of created social innovations within the chosen EU programmes. Classification of created social innovation according to type, creator, priority axis in relation to beneficiary etc. came under other objectives. Social innovations are created as a positive externality from other social projects. Finally, recommendation for sustainable support evaluation is provided.

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