Ebook: Challenge Social Innovation: Potentials for Business, Social Entrepreneurship, Welfare and Civil Society

In recent years, social innovation has experienced a steep career. Numerous national governments and large organisations like the OECD, the European Commission and UNESCO have adopted the term. Social innovation basically means that people adopt new social practices in order to meet social needs in a different or more effective way. Prominent examples of the past are the Red Cross and the social welfare state or, at present, the internet 2.0 transforming our communication and cooperation schemes, requiring new management concepts, even empowering social revolutions. The traditional concept of innovation as successful new technological products needs fundamental rethinking in a society marked by knowledge and services, leading to a new and enriched paradigm of innovation. There is multiple evidence that social innovation will become of growing importance not only concerning social integration, equal opportunities and dealing with the greenhouse effects but also with regard to preserving and expanding the innovative capacity of companies and societies. While political authorities stress the social facets of social innovation, this book also encompasses its societal and systemic dimensions, collecting the scientific expertise of renowned experts and scholars from all over the world. Based on the contributions of the first world-wide science convention on social innovation from September 2011 in Vienna, the book provides an overview of scientific approaches to this still relatively new field.

Forewords by Agnès HUBERT (Member of the Bureau of European Policy Advisers (BEPA) of the European Commission) and Antonella Noya (Senior Policy Analyst at OECD, manager of the OECD LEED Forum on Social Innovations)

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In recent years, social innovation has experienced a steep career. Numerous national governments and large organisations like the OECD, the European Commission and UNESCO have adopted the term. Social innovation basically means that people adopt new social practices in order to meet social needs in a different or more effective way. Prominent examples of the past are the Red Cross and the social welfare state or, at present, the internet 2.0 transforming our communication and cooperation schemes, requiring new management concepts, even empowering social revolutions. The traditional concept of innovation as successful new technological products needs fundamental rethinking in a society marked by knowledge and services, leading to a new and enriched paradigm of innovation. There is multiple evidence that social innovation will become of growing importance not only concerning social integration, equal opportunities and dealing with the greenhouse effects but also with regard to preserving and expanding the innovative capacity of companies and societies. While political authorities stress the social facets of social innovation, this book also encompasses its societal and systemic dimensions, collecting the scientific expertise of renowned experts and scholars from all over the world. Based on the contributions of the first world-wide science convention on social innovation from September 2011 in Vienna, the book provides an overview of scientific approaches to this still relatively new field.

Forewords by Agn?s HUBERT (Member of the Bureau of European Policy Advisers (BEPA) of the European Commission) and Antonella Noya (Senior Policy Analyst at OECD, manager of the OECD LEED Forum on Social Innovations)

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In recent years, social innovation has experienced a steep career. Numerous national governments and large organisations like the OECD, the European Commission and UNESCO have adopted the term. Social innovation basically means that people adopt new social practices in order to meet social needs in a different or more effective way. Prominent examples of the past are the Red Cross and the social welfare state or, at present, the internet 2.0 transforming our communication and cooperation schemes, requiring new management concepts, even empowering social revolutions. The traditional concept of innovation as successful new technological products needs fundamental rethinking in a society marked by knowledge and services, leading to a new and enriched paradigm of innovation. There is multiple evidence that social innovation will become of growing importance not only concerning social integration, equal opportunities and dealing with the greenhouse effects but also with regard to preserving and expanding the innovative capacity of companies and societies. While political authorities stress the social facets of social innovation, this book also encompasses its societal and systemic dimensions, collecting the scientific expertise of renowned experts and scholars from all over the world. Based on the contributions of the first world-wide science convention on social innovation from September 2011 in Vienna, the book provides an overview of scientific approaches to this still relatively new field.

Forewords by Agn?s HUBERT (Member of the Bureau of European Policy Advisers (BEPA) of the European Commission) and Antonella Noya (Senior Policy Analyst at OECD, manager of the OECD LEED Forum on Social Innovations)

Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Front Matter....Pages 17-17
Social Innovation Theories: Can Theory Catch Up with Practice?....Pages 19-42
Shaping Social Innovation by Social Research....Pages 43-55
Do Non-humans Make a Difference? The Actor-Network-Theory and the Social Innovation Paradigm....Pages 57-72
Social Innovation: What Is Coming Apart and What Is Being Rebuilt?....Pages 73-86
New Combinations of Social Practices in the Knowledge Society....Pages 87-104
Front Matter....Pages 105-105
What Is Social About Service Innovation? Contributions of Research on Social Innovation to Understanding Service Innovation....Pages 107-118
Social Innovation and Service Innovation....Pages 119-137
Innovators at Risk in the Public Service....Pages 139-149
Front Matter....Pages 151-151
Social Innovations in Ageing Societies....Pages 153-167
Social Innovation or Social Exclusion? Innovating Social Services in the Context of a Retrenching Welfare State....Pages 169-180
Front Matter....Pages 181-181
Social Innovation, Social Entrepreneurship and Development....Pages 183-195
Social Innovations and Institutional Challenges in Microfinance....Pages 197-213
Social Innovation and Social Enterprise: Evidence from Australia....Pages 215-237
Front Matter....Pages 239-239
Social Innovation at Work: Workplace Innovation as a Social Process....Pages 241-259
Social Innovation of Work and Employment....Pages 261-274
Front Matter....Pages 275-275
Challenges at the Intersection of Social Media and Social Innovation: A Manifesto....Pages 277-292
Coordination and Motivation of Customer Contribution as Social Innovation: The Case of Crytek....Pages 293-306
Front Matter....Pages 307-307
Measuring Social Innovation and Monitoring Progress of EU Policies....Pages 309-324
How to Measure the Intangibles? Towards a System of Indicators (S.A.V.E.) for the Measurement of the Performance of Social Enterprises....Pages 325-350
Challenge Social Innovation: An Introduction....Pages 1-16
Front Matter....Pages 351-351
Social Innovation and Action Research....Pages 353-366
Towards Advancing Understanding of Social Innovation....Pages 367-377
Final Observations....Pages 379-384

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In recent years, social innovation has experienced a steep career. Numerous national governments and large organisations like the OECD, the European Commission and UNESCO have adopted the term. Social innovation basically means that people adopt new social practices in order to meet social needs in a different or more effective way. Prominent examples of the past are the Red Cross and the social welfare state or, at present, the internet 2.0 transforming our communication and cooperation schemes, requiring new management concepts, even empowering social revolutions. The traditional concept of innovation as successful new technological products needs fundamental rethinking in a society marked by knowledge and services, leading to a new and enriched paradigm of innovation. There is multiple evidence that social innovation will become of growing importance not only concerning social integration, equal opportunities and dealing with the greenhouse effects but also with regard to preserving and expanding the innovative capacity of companies and societies. While political authorities stress the social facets of social innovation, this book also encompasses its societal and systemic dimensions, collecting the scientific expertise of renowned experts and scholars from all over the world. Based on the contributions of the first world-wide science convention on social innovation from September 2011 in Vienna, the book provides an overview of scientific approaches to this still relatively new field.

Forewords by Agn?s HUBERT (Member of the Bureau of European Policy Advisers (BEPA) of the European Commission) and Antonella Noya (Senior Policy Analyst at OECD, manager of the OECD LEED Forum on Social Innovations)

Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Front Matter....Pages 17-17
Social Innovation Theories: Can Theory Catch Up with Practice?....Pages 19-42
Shaping Social Innovation by Social Research....Pages 43-55
Do Non-humans Make a Difference? The Actor-Network-Theory and the Social Innovation Paradigm....Pages 57-72
Social Innovation: What Is Coming Apart and What Is Being Rebuilt?....Pages 73-86
New Combinations of Social Practices in the Knowledge Society....Pages 87-104
Front Matter....Pages 105-105
What Is Social About Service Innovation? Contributions of Research on Social Innovation to Understanding Service Innovation....Pages 107-118
Social Innovation and Service Innovation....Pages 119-137
Innovators at Risk in the Public Service....Pages 139-149
Front Matter....Pages 151-151
Social Innovations in Ageing Societies....Pages 153-167
Social Innovation or Social Exclusion? Innovating Social Services in the Context of a Retrenching Welfare State....Pages 169-180
Front Matter....Pages 181-181
Social Innovation, Social Entrepreneurship and Development....Pages 183-195
Social Innovations and Institutional Challenges in Microfinance....Pages 197-213
Social Innovation and Social Enterprise: Evidence from Australia....Pages 215-237
Front Matter....Pages 239-239
Social Innovation at Work: Workplace Innovation as a Social Process....Pages 241-259
Social Innovation of Work and Employment....Pages 261-274
Front Matter....Pages 275-275
Challenges at the Intersection of Social Media and Social Innovation: A Manifesto....Pages 277-292
Coordination and Motivation of Customer Contribution as Social Innovation: The Case of Crytek....Pages 293-306
Front Matter....Pages 307-307
Measuring Social Innovation and Monitoring Progress of EU Policies....Pages 309-324
How to Measure the Intangibles? Towards a System of Indicators (S.A.V.E.) for the Measurement of the Performance of Social Enterprises....Pages 325-350
Challenge Social Innovation: An Introduction....Pages 1-16
Front Matter....Pages 351-351
Social Innovation and Action Research....Pages 353-366
Towards Advancing Understanding of Social Innovation....Pages 367-377
Final Observations....Pages 379-384
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