TY - JOUR
T1 - Social Innovation
T2 - Integrating Micro, Meso, and Macro Level Insights From Institutional Theory
AU - van Wijk, Jakomijn
AU - Zietsma, Charlene
AU - Dorado, Silvia
AU - de Bakker, Frank G.A.
AU - Martí, Ignasi
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors thank the editors of Business & Society (Andy Crane, Irene Henriques, and Brian Husted) for stimulating this special issue and providing feedback on this introductory article, and especially Andy Crane for his guidance along the way. We also thank Emlyon Business School and the Schulich School of Business for supporting the workshop we held in conjunction with the special issue in Lyon; Juliane Reinecke and Shazad Ansari served as commentators in this workshop and offered very helpful feedback. In addition, we thank the reviewers for the special issue (listed below), who did a fantastic job of constructively helping our authors move their papers along to publication. Finally, we thank the authors of the papers in the special issue for their dedicated efforts to produce interesting and relevant work. The authors received no financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.
Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2018.
PY - 2019/5/1
Y1 - 2019/5/1
N2 - Social innovations are urgently needed as we confront complex social problems. As these social problems feature substantial interdependencies among multiple systems and actors, developing and implementing innovative solutions involve the re-negotiating of settled institutions or the building of new ones. In this introductory article, we introduce a stylized three-cycle model highlighting the institutional nature of social innovation efforts. The model conceptualizes social innovation processes as the product of agentic, relational, and situated dynamics in three interrelated cycles that operate at the micro, meso, and macro levels of analysis. The five papers included in this special issue address one or more of these cycles. We draw on these papers and the model to stimulate and offer guidance to future conversations on social innovations from an institutional theory perspective.
AB - Social innovations are urgently needed as we confront complex social problems. As these social problems feature substantial interdependencies among multiple systems and actors, developing and implementing innovative solutions involve the re-negotiating of settled institutions or the building of new ones. In this introductory article, we introduce a stylized three-cycle model highlighting the institutional nature of social innovation efforts. The model conceptualizes social innovation processes as the product of agentic, relational, and situated dynamics in three interrelated cycles that operate at the micro, meso, and macro levels of analysis. The five papers included in this special issue address one or more of these cycles. We draw on these papers and the model to stimulate and offer guidance to future conversations on social innovations from an institutional theory perspective.
KW - grand challenges
KW - institutional change
KW - institutional theory
KW - social innovation
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U2 - 10.1177/0007650318789104
DO - 10.1177/0007650318789104
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85050894446
SN - 0007-6503
VL - 58
SP - 887
EP - 918
JO - Business and Society
JF - Business and Society
IS - 5
ER -