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The Theoretical Foundations of Social Innovation

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  • Geoff Mulgan

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The field of social innovation has grown up primarily as a field of practice, made up of people doing things and then, sometimes, reflecting on what they do. There has been relatively little attention to theory, or to history, and although there has been much promising research work in recent years, there are no clearly defined schools of thought, no continuing theoretical arguments, and few major research programmes to test theories against the evidence.

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  • Geoff Mulgan, 2012. "The Theoretical Foundations of Social Innovation," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Alex Nicholls & Alex Murdock (ed.), Social Innovation, chapter 1, pages 33-65, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-36709-8_2
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230367098_2
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    1. Alice Ludvig & Todora Rogelja & Marelli Asamer-Handler & Gerhard Weiss & Maria Wilding & Ivana Zivojinovic, 2020. "Governance of Social Innovation in Forestry," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(3), pages 1-16, February.
    2. Richa Kumari & Ki-Seok Kwon & Byeong-Hee Lee & Kiseok Choi, 2019. "Co-Creation for Social Innovation in the Ecosystem Context: The Role of Higher Educational Institutions," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(1), pages 1-21, December.
    3. Karin Heitzmann & Florian Wukovitsch, 2015. "Towards social investment and social innovation in EU member states? First observations of recent developments in Austria," ImPRovE Working Papers 15/19, Herman Deleeck Centre for Social Policy, University of Antwerp.
    4. Sinan Erzurumlu, S. & Erzurumlu, Yaman O., 2015. "Sustainable mining development with community using design thinking and multi-criteria decision analysis," Resources Policy, Elsevier, vol. 46(P1), pages 6-14.
    5. Lichy, Jessica & Dutot, Vincent & Kachour, Maher, 2022. "When technology leads social business: Food truck innovation," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 181(C).
    6. Davide Arcidiacono, 2018. "Promises and Failures of the Cooperative Food Retail System in Italy," Social Sciences, MDPI, vol. 7(11), pages 1-15, November.
    7. Del Giudice, Manlio & Garcia-Perez, Alexeis & Scuotto, Veronica & Orlando, Beatrice, 2019. "Are social enterprises technological innovative? A quantitative analysis on social entrepreneurs in emerging countries," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 148(C).
    8. Diercks, Gijs & Larsen, Henrik & Steward, Fred, 2019. "Transformative innovation policy: Addressing variety in an emerging policy paradigm," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 48(4), pages 880-894.
    9. Wen, Xiao-Wei & Sun, Sang-Luo & Yang, Zhao-Hui, 2020. "A social innovation perspective on business model improvement in food related industries," International Food and Agribusiness Management Review, International Food and Agribusiness Management Association, vol. 23(5), January.
    10. Małecka, Agnieszka & Mitręga, Maciej & Mróz-Gorgoń, Barbara & Pfajfar, Gregor, 2022. "Adoption of collaborative consumption as sustainable social innovation: Sociability and novelty seeking perspective," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 144(C), pages 163-179.
    11. Diercks, Gijs, 2019. "Lost in translation: How legacy limits the OECD in promoting new policy mixes for sustainability transitions," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 48(10).
    12. Bayuo, Blaise Booponoyeng & Chaminade, Cristina & Göransson, Bo, 2020. "Unpacking the role of universities in the emergence, development and impact of social innovations – A systematic review of the literature," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 155(C).

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