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Type Conference Presentation
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Title What do we know and don't know about social innovation: a multi-level review and research agenda
Organization Unit
Authors
  • Nadine Hietschold
  • Christian Vögtlin
  • Andreas Scherer
  • Joel Gehman
Presentation Type paper
Item Subtype Original Work
Refereed Yes
Status Published in final form
Publisher Academy of Management
ISSN 2151-6561
Series Name Academy of Management Proceedings
Number 1
Page Range 12332
Event Title Academy of Management Annual Conference
Event Type conference
Event Location Boston, Massachusetts
Event Start Date August 9 - 2019
Event End Date August 13 - 2019
Abstract Text Researchers and practitioners increasingly consider social innovation a market-based means to address social challenges. However, to fully harness the potential benefits of social innovation for society, we need to understand its drivers and value creation mechanisms. Specifically, we need to understand why individuals engage in social innovation (micro level), how they influence the social innovation process (meso level) and how this relates to social value creation (macro level). However, research is scattered across different fields so that links between levels of analysis remain unclear. We conducted a systematic literature review including 460 articles across different research fields to understand: (1) how key antecedents of individuals enable socially innovative behavior; (2) when and under what conditions socially innovative behavior leads to successful social innovations (connecting the micro and the meso level); (3) what key mechanisms of social innovation stimulate social value creation and social change (connecting the meso and macro level); and (4) what facilitating mechanisms enable individual innovators to address social challenges (connecting the micro and macro level). We develop an integrative model of the social innovation process, review the state of the art on social entrepreneurship and social innovation research, outline prevailing research gaps, formulate theoretical implications, and provide a future research agenda.
Digital Object Identifier 10.5465/AMBPP.2019.12332abstract
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