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Social Innovation by Giving a Voice

In: Social Innovation

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  • Thomas Walker

    (Institute for sustainable solutions)

  • Florian Beranek

    (UNIDO (United Nations Industrial Development Organization))

Abstract

Social innovations are human innovations, made by humans, for humans, in interaction with humans, based on human and ethical values, in a human scale. Social innovations can never be made isolated from humans. But this often happens. Politicians, managers or other leading people are saying: “We know what is right for you, the community/society! – You have to change this or that; Your behavior should look like this; Your responsibility is that …”. This is not an innovation. – This is a manipulation! To get able to come from manipulations to social innovations we need methodologies to get able to give humans a voice. Social innovations are always based on the voice of the society/community/people/stakeholders. This is not as easy as it sounds. We have to re-learn to listen to the people. What are they talking about? What are the values behind? What are the grown values of a community and – very important – what are their future values? – To get able to listen to communities the right questions have to be pronounced.

Suggested Citation

  • Thomas Walker & Florian Beranek, 2013. "Social Innovation by Giving a Voice," CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance, in: Thomas Osburg & René Schmidpeter (ed.), Social Innovation, edition 127, pages 239-249, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:csrchp:978-3-642-36540-9_21
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-36540-9_21
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    1. Palihawadana, Dayananda & Oghazi, Pejvak & Liu, Yeyi, 2016. "Effects of ethical ideologies and perceptions of CSR on consumer behavior," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 69(11), pages 4964-4969.

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