Challenge Social Innovation : Potentials for Business, Social Entrepreneurship, Welfare and Civil Society

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Challenge Social Innovation; Potentials for Business, Social Entrepreneurship, Welfare and Civil Society; Foreword I; Foreword II; Antonella Noya; Contents; Challenge Social Innovation: An Introduction; 1 The Challenge of the Vienna Conference; 2 Towards a Handy and Useful Definition of Social Innovation; 3 Distinguishing the Meanings of Social in Social Innovation; 3.1 On Social Innovation Theory; 3.2 Social Innovation in the Service Sector; 3.3 Social Innovation and Welfare; 3.4 Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship; 3.5 Social Innovation at the Workplace

3.6 Social Innovation, Open Innovation and Social Media3.7 Measuring Social Innovation; 3.8 Social Innovation and the Social Sciences; References; Part I: On Social Innovation Theory; Social Innovation Theories: Can Theory Catch Up with Practice?; 1 Introduction; 2 Innovation Studies; 3 Theories of Entrepreneurship Adapted to the Social Field; 4 Evolution and Complexity: Frames for Thinking About the Processes of Innovation; 5 Techno-economic Paradigms and the Historical Context for Social Innovation; 6 Plasticity and Progress and the Ethic of Social Innovation

7 Pragmatism: The Epistemology of Social Innovation8 Theoretical Approaches to Purpose and Ends: Wellbeing and Happiness; 9 Where Next; References; Shaping Social Innovation by Social Research; 1 Introduction; 2 A New Innovation Paradigm: Current Status and Perspectives of International Innovation Research; 3 Social Innovation: Concepts, Dimensions, Topics; 3.1 What Makes an Innovation a Social Innovation?; 4 On the Role of the Social Sciences in Researching and Shaping Social Innovations; 4.1 Social Innovation as the Topic and Subject Matter of the Social Sciences

4.2 Conceptual Design and Research in the Context of Social Innovation5 Conclusion and Outlook; References; Do Non-humans Make a Difference? The Actor-Network-Theory and the Social Innovation Paradigm; 1 Introduction; 2 Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory; 3 Does ANT Make a Difference? ANT in the Context of the Sociology of Technology; 4 Deploying Selected Concepts of ANT for the Analysis of Social Innovations; 5 Re-analysing an Empirical Case: The Van de Ven et al. Study of 3M; 6 Conclusions; References; Social Innovation: What Is Coming Apart and What Is Being Rebuilt?; 1 Introduction

2 What Is Coming Apart?2.1 Large Multinational Firms; 2.2 The State; 2.3 Individualisation; 3 What Is Being Rebuilt; 3.1 General Interest; 3.2 A Service and a Process; 3.3 A Network that Relies on Trust; 4 Conclusion; References; New Combinations of Social Practices in the Knowledge Society; 1 The Issue: Why Social Innovation?; 2 Social Innovation Theory; 3 Proceeding from Theory to the Measurement and Assessment of Social Innovations; References; Part II: Social Innovation in the Service Sector

What Is Social About Service Innovation? Contributions of Research on Social Innovation to Understanding Service Innovation

10.1007/978-3-642-32879-4 [DOI]

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