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Title: | Going it alone won’t work! The relational imperative for social innovation in social enterprises | Authors: | Phillips, W Alexander, EA Lee, H |
Issue Date: | 15-May-2019 | Source: | Journal of business ethics, 15 May 2019, v.156, p. 315-331 | Abstract: | Shifts in the philosophy of the “state” and a growing emphasis on the “Big Society” have placed an increasing onus on a newly emerging organizational form, social enterprises, to deliver innovative solutions to ease societal issues. However, the question of how social enterprises manage the process of social innovation remains largely unexplored. Based on insights from both in-depth interviews and a quantitative empirical study of social enterprises, this research examines the role of stakeholder relationships in supporting the process of social innovation within social enterprises. We find that social enterprises are adept at working with their stakeholders in the ideation stage of social innovation. In contrast, they often fail to harness knowledge and expertise from their partners during the social innovation implementation phase. Consequently, we propose a social innovation–stakeholder relationship matrix that provides social enterprises in particular with insight for developing stakeholder relationships to achieve their social innovation missions. | Keywords: | Empirical Social enterprises Social innovation Stakeholder relationships |
Publisher: | Springer | Journal: | Journal of business ethics | ISSN: | 0167-4544 | EISSN: | 1573-0697 | DOI: | 10.1007/s10551-017-3608-1 | Rights: | ©The Author(s) 2017. This article is an open access publication Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The following publication Phillips, W., Alexander, E.A. & Lee, H. Going It Alone Won’t Work! The Relational Imperative for Social Innovation in Social Enterprises. J Bus Ethics 156, 315–331 (2019) is available at https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-017-3608-1. |
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