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What is Theoretical and Practical Approaches to Social Innovation about?
Social innovation is identified as a mechanism response to burning social challenges and the evolution of hybrid organizations such as social enterprises. As a result, there is an overwhelming growing interest among researchers, policymakers, and practitioners to know more about the significant concept of social innovation. Despite this significance, it is often argued that the meaning of social innovation is ambiguous and vague with theory lagging social innovation practice as the field is nascent, emerging, and remains underdeveloped. This may impede the research endeavors of conceptualizing and establishing its socio-economic underpinnings and the legitimization of the field. Theoretical and Practical Approaches to Social Innovation illuminates and consolidates multiple views of social innovation theory, research, and practice, which to date have not been presented in one publication. The book provides an in-depth theoretical and practical understanding coupled with an assessment of the current research in multidisciplinary perspectives complemented by case studies representing each knowledge cluster in social innovation research. In this unique way, this book links theory to pr
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Chamindika Weerakoon, Adela McMurray
- Publisher
- Information Science Reference, an imprint of IGI Global
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781799845898
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Science, Social Science, Sociology
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