Revised Call for Papers: Special Issue of Business & Society
Social Innovation: Insights from Institutional Theory
Please Note – new deadline for paper submissions: December 1, 2015
Guest editors:
Frank de Bakker, VU University Amsterdam
Silvia Dorado, University of Rhode Island
Ignasi Marti, EMLYON Business School, OCE Research Center
Jakomijn van Wijk, Maastricht School of Management
Charlene Zietsma, Schulich School of Business, York University
Access the full call for papers here:
http://bas.sagepub.com/site/includefiles/SocialInnovation.pdf
Social innovation refers to the process of developing and implementing
novel solutions to social problems, often involving re-negotiations of
settled institutions among diverse actors with conflicting logics. Social
innovations are urgently needed to confront problems such as climate
change, poverty alleviation, income inequality and persistent societal
conflicts. Such problems feature substantial interdependencies among
multiple systems and actors, and have redistributive implications for
entrenched interests (Rayner, 2006).
Institutional research has played a significant role in the study of
efforts to alleviate social problems (Battilana & Dorado, 2010; Dorado,
2013; Hallett, 2010; Lawrence, Hardy, & Phillips, 2002; Maguire, Hardy, &
Lawrence, 2004; Zietsma & Lawrence, 2010) and is well positioned to
contribute to an improved understanding of social innovation. Taking an
institutional perspective on social innovation suggests several topics and
a range of interesting questions. We list below some that are in line with
our theme (see full call for papers for additional suggestions).
Negotiations among diverse actors in social innovation: How do negotiation
spaces for institutional change emerge and affect social innovation? How
are marginalized actors silenced or given voice in negotiations? How do
incumbents “fight back”?
The role of hybrid forms and boundary objects in social innovation: How do
diverse actors surface conflicts and compatibilities among different
institutional logics and negotiate hybrid arrangements or boundary objects
within or across institutional fields? How are hybrid arrangements
maintained or adapted over time? How can such arrangements be scaled up or
diffused?
The influence of institutional voids in social innovation: What role do
institutional voids play in social innovation processes? How do actors
signal and exploit voids? Do different institutional orders substitute for
each other when voids exist?
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Dr. Charlene Zietsma
Associate Professor and Ann Brown Chair in Organization Studies
Director, Entrepreneurial Studies
Schulich School of Business, SSB N317
York University
4700 Keele Street
Toronto, ON, CANADA
M3J 1P3
(416) 736-2100, Ext. 77919.
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