scholarly journals How Social Impact and innovation Have Been Related in the Academic Literature?

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 130-151
Author(s):  
Mary Fernanda de Sousa de Melo ◽  
Rodrigo Trotta Yaryd ◽  
Roberta Castro Souza ◽  
Willerson Lucas Campos-Silva
Keyword(s):  
Social Impact ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Social Needs ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
Financial Innovations ◽  
The Social ◽  
Managerial Implications ◽  
New Research ◽  
Two Stages ◽  
Literature Data Analysis

Purpose: Analyze what subjects emerges when integrating “social impact” and “innovation” in the scientific literature. Methodology: It was developed a systematic review of literature. Data analysis was done in two stages: descriptive and exploratory. The co-word network maps were analysed through the VOSviewer software. Originality / Value:The globalization and the advancements in the technological and informational fields, together with the development of the emerging economies, involve a range of challenges. In this sense, technology could increase the capability of identifying social needs and enhances the low-cost possible solutions. However, it is not clear how innovation and social impact have been analysed by the literature. Findings:Previous studies were advanced, by not restricting a period for the collection and contemplating the last three years (2015-2018), where 70% of the articles of the sample belong. Furthermore, the clusters’ analysis allows the development of new research focusing on subareas that permeate this discussion, thus helping to define, understand and advance the discussion of the theme. Theoretical / methodological contributions: The main subject that emerges from the analysis was the financial question. Both in the bibliographic and the qualitative analysis of the top papers, it was noticed that as a theoretical basis and practical example of social impact innovation, the financial innovations stand out.  Managerial implications: The result reinforces that meeting the social needs is an opportunity for entrepreneurs, that can act attaining inclusive economy and inclusive growth. 

The Social Impact of Suffering: Physical Pain Thwarts Social Needs

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paolo Riva ◽  
James H. Wirth ◽  
Kipling D. Williams
Keyword(s):  
Social Impact ◽  
Social Needs ◽  
Physical Pain ◽  
The Social

Integrating Social Entrepreneurship Literature Through Teaching

2021 ◽  
pp. 251512742110219
Author(s):  
Angela E. Addae ◽  
Cheryl Ellenwood
Keyword(s):  
Social Entrepreneurship ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Core Competencies ◽  
Entrepreneurship Education ◽  
Growth Strategies ◽  
Social Entrepreneurs ◽  
Skill Sets ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Sectors

As boundaries between the business and social sectors dissolve, social entrepreneurship has emerged as a phenomenon that bridges two worlds previously divided. Now, social entrepreneurs embrace market-based tools to address society’s greatest challenges. Coinciding with the growth of the sector, students and researchers have sought to understand development, growth strategies, and the practical challenges related to social entrepreneurship. In turn, universities have bolstered social entrepreneurship education by creating academic offerings that emphasize business, social impact, and innovation. Still, social entrepreneurship education remains in its infancy. Courses are as varied as the field itself, and instructors routinely rely on their professional backgrounds and networks to develop curricula that explore the field’s multifaceted character. Thus, social entrepreneurship courses are diverse across disciplines, and the academic literature theorizing the phenomenon is similarly emergent. As social entrepreneurship courses combine theoretical insights with experiential learning in a myriad of ways, aligning theoretical insights with necessary core competencies presents a challenge. To address this dilemma, we highlight the importance of employing theory-driven concepts to develop core competencies in social entrepreneurship students. In doing so, we review key threshold concepts in the social entrepreneurship literature and suggest how instructors might link theoretical insights to practical skill sets.

Transforming Urban Slums

2021 ◽  
pp. 130-170
Author(s):  
Darrold Laurence Cordes ◽  
Pornpit Wongthongtham ◽  
Greg Morrison
Keyword(s):  
Low Cost ◽  
Social Needs ◽  
Environmental Data ◽  
Slum Dwellers ◽  
The Social ◽  
Concept Of Function ◽  
Collection Data ◽  
User Access ◽  
Intelligent Cities ◽  
Social Environmental

Cities in developing countries are increasingly under stress through urbanization, which leads to the expansion of slum areas or informal settlements due to demand for low-cost housing. This chapter presents the social, environmental, and economic realities facing slum dwellers and discusses their redevelopment into intelligent cities. The concept of ‘function accompanying intelligent' is introduced for the transformation of slums to functional intelligent cities. In this context, a city is intelligent if it serves both the functional and social needs of its entire population. The chapter overviews an approach to integrated data collection, data analytics, and user access to information. Geospatial analysis of demographic, economic, social, and environmental data is introduced to help delineate slums, and to monitor the outcomes of urban planning initiatives and the progress of social wellbeing. The city of Accra in Ghana is discussed as a potential slum city to functional intelligent city transformation.

scholarly journals Assessment of the Impact of Road Transport Change on the Security of the Urban Social Environment

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (22) ◽  
pp. 12630
Author(s):  
Rolandas Vitkūnas ◽  
Renata Činčikaitė ◽  
Ieva Meidute-Kavaliauskiene
Keyword(s):  
Social Environment ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Road Transport ◽  
Social Needs ◽  
Urban Transport ◽  
Green Economy ◽  
Transport Sector ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Impact

In the context of accelerating urbanisation, cities must ensure a viable economy, social well-being, and a healthy environment. Transport is one of the key conditions for economic development and meeting the needs of countries, regions, and cities. However, transport must meet not only the physiological but also the social needs of society, one of which is environmental security. Urban transport accounts for around 40% of CO2 emissions and 70% of other pollutants from road transport. Thus, one of the most difficult issues for any city to address when building bypasses is the growing number of cars in the city, traffic congestion, and the reduction of all greenhouse gas emissions. The documents adopted in July 2020 aim to revitalise the EU’s economy by moving towards a green economy and sustainability. In addition to the systematic and comparative analysis of concepts published in the scientific literature, the article also presents an analysis of the concepts of the sustainable city and sustainable transport, as well as a study of the social impact of bypasses and the assessment of the security of the social environment in the Baltic capitals. The aim of the article is to assess the impact of the growing number of vehicles on the security of the city’s social environment. Research results show that the number of pollutants and a direct dependence between the number of pollutants and the driving speed were established. Therefore, it needs to make investments in the transport sector: improving roads, the construction of bypasses, and the technical parameters of purchased cars.

scholarly journals Social Economy and Living Standards: Consumer Cooperatives in Barcelona, 1891–1935

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
Francisco J. Medina-Albaladejo ◽  
Josep Pujol-Andreu
Keyword(s):  
Social Services ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Social Economy ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Living Standards ◽  
Institutional Setting ◽  
Working Classes ◽  
The Social ◽  
Consumer Cooperatives

Abstract The living standards of the working classes during industrialization continue to be the subject of debate in European historiography. However, other factors closely related to the institutional setting, such as the role played by social economy and the institutions for collective action, are seldom considered. This study focuses on these factors, and attempts to quantify the social impact of consumer cooperatives. We argue that these institutions substantially improved the lot of the working classes from the mid-nineteenth century onwards, helping them to increase their incomes, and access food and services, such as education and social services, which the state did not provide in sufficient measure. To demonstrate this point, we analyse thirty-five consumer cooperatives in Barcelona, an industrial centre in which these organizations were more popular than anywhere else in Spain. Our main conclusion is that consumer cooperatives increased the well-being of their members, helping them to meet their substantial calorific needs, although their diets were unbalanced and low-cost; members improved their income between five and ten per cent, by simply shopping at the institution, and gained access to basic welfare services.

scholarly journals The limitations to our understanding of peer review

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan P. Tennant ◽  
Tony Ross-Hellauer
Keyword(s):  
Peer Review ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Knowledge Generation ◽  
Minimal Set ◽  
Data Infrastructure ◽  
Shared Data ◽  
The Social ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
New Research

Abstract Peer review is embedded in the core of our knowledge generation systems, perceived as a method for establishing quality or scholarly legitimacy for research, while also often distributing academic prestige and standing on individuals. Despite its critical importance, it curiously remains poorly understood in a number of dimensions. In order to address this, we have analysed peer review to assess where the major gaps in our theoretical and empirical understanding of it lie. We identify core themes including editorial responsibility, the subjectivity and bias of reviewers, the function and quality of peer review, and the social and epistemic implications of peer review. The high-priority gaps are focused around increased accountability and justification in decision-making processes for editors and developing a deeper, empirical understanding of the social impact of peer review. Addressing this at the bare minimum will require the design of a consensus for a minimal set of standards for what constitutes peer review, and the development of a shared data infrastructure to support this. Such a field requires sustained funding and commitment from publishers and research funders, who both have a commitment to uphold the integrity of the published scholarly record. We use this to present a guide for the future of peer review, and the development of a new research discipline based on the study of peer review.

scholarly journals Understanding Technological Unemployment: A Review of Causes, Consequences, and Solutions

Societies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 50
Author(s):  
Yuri Lima ◽  
Carlos Eduardo Barbosa ◽  
Herbert Salazar dos Santos ◽  
Jano Moreira de Souza
Keyword(s):  
Social Impact ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Web Of Science ◽  
Developed Economies ◽  
Technological Unemployment ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Subject ◽  
New Research ◽  
The Impact

Many studies have focused on estimating the impact of automation on work around the world with results ranging widely. Despite the disagreement about the level of impact that automation will have, experts agree that new technologies tend to be applied to every economic sector, thus impacting work regardless of substituting or complementing it. The purpose of this study is to move on from the discussion about the size of the impact of automation to understanding the main social impacts that automation will cause and what actions should be taken to deal with them. For this purpose, we reviewed literature about technological unemployment found in Scopus and Web of Science published since 2000, presenting an academic view of the actions necessary to deal with the social impact of automation. Our results summarize causes, consequences, and solutions for the technological unemployment found in the literature. We also found that the literature is mainly concentrated on the areas of economy, sociology, and philosophy, with the authors situated in developed economies such as the USA, Europe, and New Zealand. Finally, we present the research agenda proposed by the reviewed papers that could motivate new research on the subject.

scholarly journals Volunteering as a Human Resource in Provision of Public Social Services in the Municipality

2021 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-47
Author(s):  
Aistė Papalauskienė
Keyword(s):  
Social Services ◽  
Human Resource ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Good Practice ◽  
Social Benefits ◽  
Her Family ◽  
Municipal Administration ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
The Social ◽  
Periodic Analysis

The research aims to identify the main factors and obstacles supporting the development of volunteering in municipalities as a basis for volunteering as an additional human resource in the provision of social services in the municipality. It has been achieved through qualitative analysis and generalization of academic literature and other publicly available sources. The article adheres to the opinion that volunteering is a phenomenon that is becoming increasingly important in democratic societies. In the analyzed context of public administration, we treat volunteering as follows: activities that create social benefits for society; freely assumed obligations authorized by agreement; activities appropriate to mutual assistance; unpaid activities of public service; useful work; activities satisfying the needs of human self-realization; activities allowing to acquire professional skills. All the components of this multifaceted definition evidence the social benefit to society, and at the same time to the municipality, where volunteering is being developed. The analysis of academic literature and the good practice of other countries in the development of volunteering showed that the social benefits created by volunteering are complex, the social impact is a long-term and systemic. The social benefits created by volunteering affect the volunteer him/herself, the organization that hosts the volunteer, the community of service provision, the service recipient and his/her family members, society. The study revealed the following factors activating volunteering in the municipality: recognition of volunteering benefits and support at all levels of government; determination and periodic analysis of obstacles to involvement of volunteers in social activities; formation of volunteers’ involvement mechanism and administration of activities thereof; material and information resources for the coordination and support of volunteering activities; competent human resources to activate and involve volunteering; mutual co-operation of the municipal administration units and departments; cooperation of the municipal administration with NGOs and state-financed organizations in developing volunteering in municipalities; dissemination of good practice; inclusion of volunteering activities in curricula of pre-school educational institutions.

scholarly journals Social Impact Indicators in the Context of the Roma Community: Contributions to the Debate on Methodological Implications

2022 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 160940692110646
Author(s):  
Ariadna Munté-Pascual ◽  
Andrea Khalfaoui ◽  
Diana Valero ◽  
Gisela Redondo-Sama
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Transfer ◽  
European Commission ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Roma Population ◽  
The Social ◽  
Impact Indicators ◽  
Current Context ◽  
New Research ◽  
Selection Of

Researching with methodologies focused on social impact in line with the SDGs is one of the priority orientations of the Horizon Europe program, as shown in the official European Commission document on impacts for this program. In this sense, researchers must forecast how their project will improve citizens' lives. Until now, many investigations showed the evaluation of the social impact through knowledge transfer activities that, although undoubtedly important, are not enough since the social impact is defined as the improvements derived from using the knowledge transferred to society. The search for the social impact of new research requires the introduction of impact indicators from the design, throughout the project development, and when the project ends. The introduction of indicators, in particular if they are decided in dialogue with the participants, allows not only to foresee a greater social impact but also to improve and adjust the methodology to be used. We explore this aspect in the context of research with social impact that starts from how the COVID-19 pandemic is increasing the inequalities suffered by the Roma population, causing the aggravation and creation of new problems and needs. Thus, we explain in detail how the selection of indicators that monitor the social impact, in dialogue with the Roma population, allows the design of research projects that are more appropriate to the current context.

scholarly journals Social impact analysis of cultural tourism in rural areas of Tlaxcala, Mexico

2021 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 320-329
Author(s):  
Luceli Méndez Serrano ◽  
José Pedro Juárez-Sánchez ◽  
Benito Ramírez-Valverde ◽  
Laura Caso Barrera
Keyword(s):  
Social Impact ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Cultural Tourism ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Street Vendors ◽  
The Social

Alternative tourism, specifically cultural tourism, has gained worldwide importance. This is reflected in the growing number of people preferring this type of leisure activity. However, and even though archaeological and religious contexts represent hubs of attraction for pilgrims and tourists, their development seems to generate social issues. The objective of this research is to analyse the social impact of cultural tourism, from the perspective of tradesmen living in the rural municipality of Tlaxcala, Mexico. Information was collected by surveys. Sample size was calculated using the non-probabilistic method (snowball), and 54 tradesmen owning establishments near tourist attractions, were interviewed. Results evidenced that tradesmen do perceive social problems including traffic congestion, increasing living costs, pollution, street vendors, and augmented competition between businesses. However, they appreciate the benefits of providing tourists with low-cost catering services, considering tourism to be positive or very positive. The conclusion is that economic benefits outweigh the social impacts generated by tourism. Highlights: The influx of pilgrims and tourists is generating some social problems in the receiving rural spaces. Tourism service providers derive little benefit due to the low-cost services in accommodation and meal offer to tourists. Social problems are increasing (road traffic, higher cost of living, pollution, street vendors) and greater competition between businesses. Tourist activity is considered good or very good since it contributes to local development.

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