scholarly journals Determinant Factors of Social Innovation Capability in Nonprofit Organizations and Social Businesses

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (12) ◽  
pp. 91-119
Author(s):  
Samuel Carvalho De Benedicto ◽  
Eduardo Luiz Rodrigues ◽  
Cibele Roberta Sugahara ◽  
Denise Helena Lombardo Ferreira
Keyword(s):  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Innovation Capability ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Democratic Management ◽  
Five Factors ◽  
The Social ◽  
Market State ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive

The ability to create alternatives to social problems in a sustainable way can be understood as social innovation. Social innovation is a way of equalizing social problems, being considered an option for market, state and society failures. Thus, social innovation presents itself as a possible and necessary alternative for solving the problems related to Sustainable Development, especially education. This study seeks, from the perspective of the Innovation Capability, to identify the Capability for social innovation in Associations, Businesses Foundations and Social Businesses that work in the area of Education in the Southeast of Brazil. In this research, the Social Innovation Capability is composed of five factors, namely: Facilitating Leadership; Strategic Intention to Innovate Socially; Democratic Management; Co-creation of Social Innovation and Open Social Innovation. The research methodology is qualitative descriptive. For the data collection, an online questionnaire was sent to a selection of organizations belonging to all three types of organizations studied (Associations, Businesses Foundations and Social Businesses) that work in the area of Education in the Southeast of Brazil. As results, the responses of eight organizations, each with three respondents, were analyzed. The organizations were identified as being three Associations, two Businesses Foundations and three Social Businesses. The results were analyzed in light of the social innovation literature. The results indicate that in the Associations, Businesses Foundations and in Social Businesses, the determinants factors of the Capability for social innovation Democratic Management and Open Social Innovation are highlighted. Among the results it is worth noting that the Co-creation factor of Social Innovation is not representative for the organizations studied.

Value Creation through Social Alliances

2017 ◽  
pp. 205-231
Author(s):  
Rukiye Sönmez
Keyword(s):  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
Value Creation ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
For Profit ◽  
The Social ◽  
Structural Differences ◽  
Social Alliance ◽  
Social Alliances ◽  
Integrative Social ◽  
For Profit Organizations

As social problems have grown in magnitude and complexity, social alliances have brought businesses, nonprofit organizations, and governments together. Alliances between nonprofits and businesses have been increasing and becoming more strategically important. This research aims to explore (a) types of social alliances between nonprofit organizations and for profit organizations and, (b) the patterns of social alliances types which defined by Austin (2000), philanthropic, transactional, and integrative. Social alliances differ from other types of alliances due to their structural differences. Hence, it is important both for the partners of the alliance and society that the value created in the social alliance is determined and increased. Knowing which factors create value and which factors increase or decrease the created value make it possible for the social alliances to be managed.

Fostering Social Innovation through E-Collaboration

2014 ◽  
pp. 59-71
Author(s):  
Ayla Esen
Keyword(s):  
Social Problems ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Social Value ◽  
Social Challenges ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
The Social ◽  
Innovative Solutions ◽  
Collaborative Efforts

Increasing awareness in social problems and the high complexity of social challenges has boosted social innovation efforts in recent years. Social innovation refers to new and innovative solutions to social problems that create social value, involve public good, and affect the society, mostly developed by participation of stakeholders who have interests in the problem. Social innovation leads to social value created through a series of collaborative efforts of public, private, and non-governmental organizations. This chapter highlights the importance of collaboration in social innovation and examines the role of e-collaboration as a group coordination and communication mechanism in the social innovation processes. The first part of the chapter presents evidence on what social innovation is and describes how social innovation intertwines with collaboration. The second part of the chapter defines the key conceptual elements of e-collaboration and explores how e-collaboration can foster social innovation concerning each conceptual element.

scholarly journals Eksplorasi Program Reintegrasi Sosial pada Warga Binaan di Lembaga Pemasyarakatan Narkotika

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-38
Author(s):  
Siti Asisah ◽  
Nurhayati
Keyword(s):  
Social Problems ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
General Election ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Disability Rights ◽  
Social Reintegration ◽  
Norms And Values ◽  
The Social ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Descriptive Approach

Social reintegration is the process of establishing new norms and values for people with social problems in prisons. This article discusses the understanding of how Social Reintegration Programs for Correctional Prisoners program, especially to drug cases. The research conducted using a qualitative descriptive approach. The primary data derived from interview results combined with other printed documents. The results of this study indicate that the Social Reintegration Program has a potential to play a role in reducing overcapacity in the prisons, but its implementation still requires development. In addition, there is still a negative stigma labelled by the community to the prisons inhabitants in addition to inadequate facilities, infrastructure and budget as well as a lack of skills owned by the targeted citizens when out of prisons. Keywords: General election, people with disabilities, disability rights, voters.

scholarly journals The Key Factors in Social Innovation Projects

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 107-116
Author(s):  
Orly Carvache-Franco ◽  
Glenda Gutiérrez Candela ◽  
Elsie Zerda Barreno
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Critical Factors ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
The Social ◽  
Innovation Projects

Abstract This article presents a review of the specialized literature on the critical factors for the planning and administration of social innovation projects and the main barriers or obstacles that these projects face. Social innovation is currently disseminated in Latin America as a solution to the social problems that exist in the region, so it is important to identify the key factors that must be considered in the planning and administration of these projects to guarantee their success. However, in spite of its importance, specialized literature identifying these barriers is still scarce. The methodology used is a qualitative approach of selecting, reviewing and analyzing scientific articles or papers from indexed journals. This article can be useful to people, organizations and institutions involved in the planning and administration of social innovation projects.

scholarly journals ANALISIS KRITIK SOSIAL KEPADA KONTRAKTOR DAN MASYARAKAT DALAM PUISI ESAI “ABORSI DI PALIPPIS” KARYA SYUMAN SAEHA

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 47
Author(s):  
Naim Irmayani ◽  
Andriani Andriani
Keyword(s):  
Social Problems ◽  
Social Criticism ◽  
Document Analysis ◽  
Research Results ◽  
Research Technique ◽  
The Social ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Government Contractors ◽  
The Government ◽  
Descriptive Method

This research is motivated by how the social criticism contained in the poetry essay "Abortion in Palippis" by Syuman Saeha. The purpose of this research is to find out the social criticism in Syuman Saeha's essay "Abortion in Palippis". The method used in this study is a qualitative descriptive method to describe data in the form of mental elements and social criticism in the poem essay "Abortion di Palippis". Shuman Saeha's work. The research technique used is document analysis, namely the poetry essay "Abortion di Palippis" by Syuman Saeha and interviewing the resource person, Syuman Saeha, as the poet of the essay "Abortion di Palippis".The research results obtained were the inner elements of the essay poetry "Abortion di Palippis" consisting of theme, taste, tone of atmosphere and message. The social criticism obtained is in the form of criticism against the government, contractors and the community. Social criticism of the government has 4 points, against contractors 3 points and against society 3 points. Of the three targets of criticism, the government is seen as the party most responsible for creating social problems as is the social criticism obtained in the poem Shuman Saeha's "Abortion di Palippis" essay.

Fostering Social Innovation through E-Collaboration

2017 ◽  
pp. 54-67
Author(s):  
Ayla Esen
Keyword(s):  
Social Problems ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Social Value ◽  
Social Challenges ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
The Social ◽  
Innovative Solutions ◽  
Collaborative Efforts

Increasing awareness in social problems and the high complexity of social challenges has boosted social innovation efforts in recent years. Social innovation refers to new and innovative solutions to social problems that create social value, involve public good, and affect the society, mostly developed by participation of stakeholders who have interests in the problem. Social innovation leads to social value created through a series of collaborative efforts of public, private, and non-governmental organizations. This chapter highlights the importance of collaboration in social innovation and examines the role of e-collaboration as a group coordination and communication mechanism in the social innovation processes. The first part of the chapter presents evidence on what social innovation is and describes how social innovation intertwines with collaboration. The second part of the chapter defines the key conceptual elements of e-collaboration and explores how e-collaboration can foster social innovation concerning each conceptual element.

scholarly journals The City of Digital Social Innovators

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Chiara Certomà ◽  
Mark Dyer ◽  
Antonella Passani
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Thematic Issue ◽  
Social Web ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Fast Growing ◽  
The Social ◽  
Innovative Solutions ◽  
The City

The concept of digital social innovation (DSI) refers to a fast-growing set of initiatives aimed at providing innovative solutions to social problems and needs by deploying the potential of the social web and digital media. Despite having been often interpreted as synonymous with digitally enhanced social innovation, we explain here why, in consideration of its epistemological and socio-political potentialities, we understand it as an interdisciplinary set of practices able to interpret and support the changes of a society that is more and more intrinsically virtual and physical at the same time. Notably, we briefly discuss how DSI processes can be functionally mobilized in support of different socio-political projects, ranging from the mainstream neoliberal to the revolutionary ones. Eventually, we provide a synopsis of the articles included in this thematic issue, by aggregating them accordingly to the main stakeholders promoting the DSI projects, being more bottom-up oriented or more institutional-based.

scholarly journals BULGARIAN YOUNG PEOPLE, VOLUNTEERING AND SOCIAL CAPITAL: TRENDS IN 2019

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (5) ◽  
pp. 1209-1213
Author(s):  
Denitsa Gorchilova
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Young People ◽  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
Youth Organizations ◽  
Political Organizations ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Voluntary Activity ◽  
The Social ◽  
New Energy ◽  
Pro Bono

Research on the Bulgarian youth in the last two decades detect disturbing trends of sharp decline in the trust towards different public institutions, preferences towards living in the closer family and friends’ environment, prevailing consumer attitudes. There is a necessity for injecting new energy and positive life attitude which is taken account of in the national youth policies but fails to become reality.Data from the annual government reports doesn’t show significant changes in the attitudes and ways of life of the Bulgarian young people regarding the use of their free time in a positive way like acquiring new knowledge and skills, or widening their net of social contacts. Researches show very small percentage of young people who are volunteers, low levels of membership in nongovernmental, activist or even political organizations, disinterest in civic activities.These disturbing results can be discussed in the light of the social capital theories that outline volunteering and civic activism as crucial methods in building bridging and linking social capital. The latter can help young people in their professional and personal fulfillment and in bettering the quality of their lives.The article studies the results of a research done in the first half of the year 2019 among 240 young people (mostly students). The data is gathered through a structured online questionnaire. It studies the motivation of those young people to take part in voluntary activities; as well as the attitudes of youngsters who have never participated in a voluntary activity. Other researchers in Bulgaria have found that the students are the most active volunteers in the country. The current research verifies that statement. It delves deeper in the reasons why a person would / wouldn’t take part in a voluntary activity, what are the preferred causes, what are the best information channels for attracting young volunteers, what are their expectations.So far governmental policies have failed to produce significant positive changes in the behavior of the young people in Bulgaria. But there is a large number of youth organizations, nonprofit organizations committed to promoting volunteering and international organizations and programmes that slowly are shifting the trends. To add to the portfolio of volunteering forms, an international project started in 2018 is trying to popularize the pro bono programmes and to make them a part of the typical life cycle of the students in Bulgaria and other EU countries.

scholarly journals Innovation capability assessment tools in social enterprises

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-101
Author(s):  
Ruxandra Argatu
Keyword(s):  
Social Innovation ◽  
Social Enterprises ◽  
Assessment Tools ◽  
Innovation Capability ◽  
Collective Knowledge ◽  
Evolutionary Pattern ◽  
Horizon 2020 ◽  
The Road ◽  
The Social ◽  
Innovation Projects

AbstractInnovation is among the pursuits of any modern organization nowadays, constituting the core of collective progress and of competitive advantage. The global rising tendency in competitiveness urges companies, public institutions and other community actors to adhere to this naturally evolutionary pattern that occurs in any kind of system. To achieve welfare in a context of continuous changes, an organization has to make sure that its processes are perfectly aligned to its mission. Additionally, having a clear picture on its innovation capability, meaning the ability of producing a valuable output by transforming internal collective knowledge, enables it to follow the road to success. In the case of traditional enterprises, which pursue profit accumulation, evaluating the innovation capability is done on the basis of clearly defined instruments, but when referring to social enterprises, a variety of factors come in place and make the evaluation more difficult. The scarce current research done concerning the assessment of innovation capability for social enterprises makes this topic meaningful to be explored, so their societal purpose can be better delivered. Thus, the aim of the paper is to formulate a framework for determining the innovation capability of Romanian social enterprises by building on the good practices reflected by innovation projects in the social field, funded through the Horizon 2020 programme at EU scale. The research methodology resides on two pillars. In the first place, it contains literature review on the concepts of innovation, social innovation, innovation capability and the instruments used to assess it. Secondly, it brings together the exemplary undertakings of multiple social innovation projects delivered through the Horizon 2020 programme and concentrated into online reports, accessible through its website.

scholarly journals Organizational and social innovation in Non-Profit Organizations performance in the context of an emergent economy

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 73
Author(s):  
César A. Bernal-Torres ◽  
Maricela Isabel Montes-Guerra ◽  
Álvaro Turriago-Hoyos ◽  
Hugo Fernando Castro-Silva
Keyword(s):  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
Organizational Performance ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Geographical Location ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Linear Regression Models ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Main Components

Purpose: This study provides empirical evidence on the innovations that Nonprofit Organizations (NPOs) in Colombia have implemented within their own management to address social problems which are the object of their institutional mission.Design/methodology/approach: This research is based on information obtained from a survey applied to executives of Colombian NPOs. Multiple linear regression models were developed to check the partial effect of the set of independent variables (Organizational and Social Innovation) over the dependent variable (Organizational Performance). Main Components Analysis was applied to grouping the considered variables.Findings: Empirical evidence indicates that Colombian NPOs are innovative organizations that advisedly follow management strategies for this purpose. Colombian NPOs have been innovating for their disposition to tackle the social problems implicated in their institutional mission. Evidence indicates that the main components derived from NPOs’ organizational and social innovations are grouped into four: NPO innovation actions to adapt to the environment; internal innovation actions to improve NPO’s performance; variables related with NPO innovation actions to improve their relations with external agents; innovation actions aimed at improving the management of social interventions associated with the mission of the NPOs and the management of institutional projects.Research limitations/implications: The field work only used the survey technique to obtain the information and only assessed the perception of one of the directors of each of the NPOs participating in the study in terms of both the actions of organizational innovation such as social innovation and organizational performance. Therefore, the study undoubtedly presents bias in that perception.The technique used for the selection of the sample of the participants was a non-probabilistic sampling, which implies bias in the information and therefore, limitation for the generalization of the results to other contexts. The geographical location of the administration of the NPOs was restricted to Bogota and surrounding municipalities.Originality/value: An analysis of the relationship between social and organizational innovations with organizational performance in NPOs was carried out in the context of an emerging economy, where the subject has been very little studied and much less with principal component analysis. This in order to contribute to a better understanding of the subject.

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