scholarly journals Social Challenges: Social Innovation through Social Responsibility

2013 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Piroska Harazin ◽  
Kálmán Kósi
Keyword(s):  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Social Challenges

scholarly journals Promotion of Social Innovation through Fab Labs. The Case of ProteinLab UTEM in Chile

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (16) ◽  
pp. 8790
Author(s):  
Macarena Valenzuela-Zubiaur ◽  
Héctor Torres Bustos ◽  
Mónica Arroyo-Vázquez ◽  
Pablo Ferrer-Gisbert
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Quadruple Helix ◽  
Third Mission ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Social Challenges ◽  
Mixed Analysis ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Effective Instrument

Fab Labs as manufacturing laboratories that stimulate innovation and collaboration are nowadays proliferating within universities. Given the new social challenges, framed within the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), we formulate the following research question: Are Fab Labs an effective tool for the promotion of social innovation from universities? To answer this question, a mixed analysis has been carried out focusing on the case of ProteinLab UTEM. The approach aims to generate a model for the promotion of social innovation from universities through Fab Labs, linking the quadruple helix actors. The objective of this model is to show how Fab Labs can become an effective instrument to promote social innovation from universities. The contribution of this article lies in linking Fab Labs with social innovation through the university’s third mission. Our approach considers Fab Labs as an instrument for the development of social innovations within the university, which contribute, through the third mission, to the social and sustainable development of its environment. As a result of this research, a model is presented for the development of social innovation from universities through Fab Labs. Our research concludes that Fab Labs are an effective instrument for the promotion of social innovation from universities.

Understanding how social responsibility drives social innovation: characteristics of radically innovative projects

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Duygu Turker ◽  
Y. Serkan Ozmen
Keyword(s):  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Socially Responsible ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Radical Innovations ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
Innovation Characteristics ◽  
Sustainability Challenges ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
The Impact

PurposeThis study aims to analyze how corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives address sustainability challenges by focusing on the congruence between process and outcome variables of CSR.Design/methodology/approachFollowing a theory-driven model, a content analysis was conducted on 63 award-winning social responsibility projects.FindingsThe study reveals that the adoption of a proactive approach during environmental assessment, which manifests itself in a focus on emerging sustainability challenges with a deeper interest, affects the centrality of social responsibility initiative by increasing its learning and partnership potential and leads organizations to produce radical innovations.Practical implicationsThe findings provide a valuable understanding for practitioners on organizing the decision making process of CSR initiatives in order to unlock its learning potentials.Social implicationsRadically innovative projects with their higher levels of proactivity, centrality and generalizability are better than incremental ones at transferring and integrating company resources and capabilities to address emergent sustainability challenges.Originality/valueThe impact of CSR on society and nature has been a neglected area of literature. To reduce this gap, this study analyzes how the configuration of process variables shapes the outcomes of socially responsible initiatives on sustainability. It also provides a new typology on the relevance of CSR initiatives to company mission/model that can show how CSR can unlock organizational learning and innovation potentials.

Social responsibility and the SDGs: vignettes of Caribbean tour operators

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 275-292
Author(s):  
Pauline Milwood
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Corporate Sustainability ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Iso 26000 ◽  
2030 Agenda ◽  
Caribbean Tourism

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to better understand how Caribbean tourism micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) perceive their corporate sustainability and social responsibility (CSSR) practices during design and implementation of new innovations. This knowledge helps our understanding of how the uniquely tourist-dependent region of the Caribbean can, through the social innovation practices of MSMEs, maximize its contribution to attainment of the 2030 sustainable development goals. Design/methodology/approach This study uses a responsibility–sustainability framework premised on seven core subjects of the International Guidance (ISO 26000) for Social Responsibility and goals from the 2030 Agenda to analyze interview data from tour operators in five Caribbean Community (CARICOM) territories: Antigua, Barbados, Grenada, Jamaica and St. Lucia. Findings The results reveal that when designing new products and services, Caribbean tour operators contribute to sustainable development through social and economic change, responsible business model design, fair labor and operating practices, environmental sustainability and health and safety education. These behaviors do vary and are not consistent across the tour operators. Research limitations/implications Social and business planners and policymakers should create deliberate and purposeful mechanisms designed for Caribbean tourism MSMEs to have a fulsome understanding of how they might maximize contributions to the 2030 Agenda. Originality/value This work represents the first instance of use of the ISO 26000 Guidance in a Caribbean tourism context and provides insight into tour operators’ views toward corporate sustainability and CSSR.

scholarly journals Social Innovation and Food Provisioning during Covid-19: The Case of Urban–Rural Initiatives in the Province of Naples

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (11) ◽  
pp. 4444 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valentina Cattivelli ◽  
Vincenzo Rusciano
Keyword(s):  
Best Practice ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Food Provisioning ◽  
Local Society ◽  
Social Challenges ◽  
Self Organized ◽  
Urban Rural ◽  
Desk Research

This paper draws on the theoretical framework based on social innovation determinants to analyze how and to what extent the recent and self-organized initiatives for food provisioning are contributing to increase food accessibility at the time of personal and mobility restrictions due to Covid-19. Based on this, the paper firstly maps the initiatives activated during the first months of the Covid-19 emergency (March and April 2020) in the urban–rural territories in the province of Naples (Italy). Secondly, it characterizes these initiatives in relation to their capacity to enhance outcome and social well-being, as well as to involve local society in answer to social challenges through a desk research. Thirdly, the paper describes the case of Masseria Ferraioli, which emerges as social innovative best practice among the previous mapped initiatives. Even in these days, the Masseria distributes to people who cannot afford the purchase due to the emergency vegetables grown on land confiscated from the Camorra, the local mafia. Its configuration as social innovative experience is also confirmed directly by the Masseria´s project manager, who was required to answer to a semi-structured interview. Based on the evidence of the desk research and this interview, the paper demonstrates the importance of the combined commitment of local communities and volunteering association as a reaction to food provisioning problems in the time of Covid-19, as well as an increasing interest in reconnecting with local food practices, above all when food access has become a priority.

scholarly journals Corporate volunteering as a form of social innovation

2020 ◽  
Vol 89 ◽  
pp. 06003
Author(s):  
Julia Kuznetsova
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Business Process ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Corporate Volunteering ◽  
Diachronic Analysis ◽  
Corporate Social

Corporate volunteering (CV) is a new phenomenon in the activities of Russian companies. Based on the use of diachronic analysis, a comparative study of the transformation of the essence and content of corporate volunteering in the works of foreign and domestic scientists and specialists has been carried out. There has been revealed a shift in emphasis from CV as an element of corporate social responsibility, to CV as an independent business process. Due to the novelty of this phenomenon, as well as the complex of characteristics determined on the basis of the use of synchronous analysis, it has been proved that CV can be defined as one of the forms of social innovation.

Using Creativity and Social Innovation to Create Social Value and Change

2019 ◽  
pp. 975-990
Author(s):  
Ziska Fields
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Social Value ◽  
Ageing Population ◽  
Clean Water ◽  
Social Challenges ◽  
Sustainable Solutions ◽  
Creativity And Innovation

Social challenges are numerous, complex, urgent and multidisciplinary in nature. The old ways of looking for solutions to social problems like unemployment, climate change, an ageing population, poverty, supply of clean water, chronic disease and so on, do not offer sustainable solutions and global implementation. Societies can also no longer hold governments responsible to find solutions to all these social problems only. Social innovation is needed and seeks new answers to social problems by identifying and delivering new services that improve the quality of life of individuals and communities. The main aim of this chapter is to create awareness of social innovation as an emerging field. This chapter explain what social creativity and innovation are and explains the creative and innovative processes. Barriers and support for social innovation are also discussed.

Service Learning

2019 ◽  
pp. 84-104
Author(s):  
Ana Martins ◽  
Orlando Petiz Pereira ◽  
Isabel Martins
Keyword(s):  
Service Learning ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Cognitive Skills ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Teaching Model ◽  
Community Collaboration ◽  
Social Emotional ◽  
Social Commitment ◽  
The Social ◽  
Education Model

The chapter highlights the endogenous strengths that humans have of exposing society to sustainable change. At birth, humans bring with them a triptych code including, the social, emotional and spiritual, that needs to be further developed. Those non-cognitive skills that schooling should instill are possible via service learning education. Through education, individual citizens are enthused with harmonious cognitive and non-cognitive skills which are positive, inclusive, humane, in harmony with life and circumstances. In the current complex and uncertain economy, this education model is directed at social responsibility, social innovation, citizenship, personal and social commitment. Being holistic, multi-focused and dynamic, it brings together learning, service and the economy. This learning- teaching model aligns with an intellectual and humanized society; entails two simultaneous objectives, pedagogical and community collaboration; focuses on real circumstances, deals with community-identified needs, solidarity, cooperation, harmony and commitment.

Responsibility and Social Innovation in Tourism Companies in Mexico

2021 ◽  
pp. 56-71
Author(s):  
Maria del Carmen De la Luz Lanzagorta ◽  
Edith Sarai Lozada Sánchez ◽  
Jessica Abigail Cortés González ◽  
Concepción Nancy De Cristobal González
Keyword(s):  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Central Question ◽  
Socially Responsible ◽  
Good Practices ◽  
Tourism Sector ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Corporate Social

All over the world, institutions and organizations that recognize the social responsibility of companies are identified. They work on social innovation, which is companies' capacities to influence problems, generating synergies between the various sectors of society. In this research, a qualitative methodology was applied to a sample of companies from Puebla (Mexico) and the region to identify innovative practices of corporate social responsibility in the tourism sector and related companies. The central question that guides this research is, through which strategies or actions are companies in the tourism sector socially responsible and innovative? Therefore, the purpose is to show the good practices of different companies in the tourism sector in Puebla (Mexico) as well as their areas of opportunity and therefore strategies to strengthen responsibility and social innovation in the sector.

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