Brief Analysis of the Scientific Articles Produced About …
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How to face and work with Sustainability to ensure that today’s actions will not
limit the range of economic, social and environmental options available to future generations. From this perspective, the reflection challenges to look for an understanding
of the relationship and conflict between capitalism and sustainability.
Even tough, it is important to have in mind that the social economy progresses
in parallel to the global one, so many social problems are unresolved, such as social
inequalities, sustainability factors and epidemics that do not stop growing. Therefore,
efforts have been made so that there is support for the neediest communities. For
André and Abreu (2006), social innovation is a new and socially recognized response
in which the goal is to generate social changes, from three attributes:
(i) satisfaction of human needs not satisfied by the market; (ii) promotion of social inclusion; and (iii) training of agents or subject actors, potentially or actually, to processes of
exclusion/social marginalization, triggering, in this way, a change, more or less intense, of
the power relations (André and Abreu 2006, p. 124).
Given the increased attention that has fallen on “social innovation” in recent
times—which can be seen by reading the works of various authors, such as those
who will be cited in this article—it was chosen, in this research, to analyze the
scientific production that involves the issue studied.
In other words, from the selection of scientific articles based on criteria previously
established, it was identified a certain amount of production covering the subject in
the last decade. After it, the cut and the analysis of the selected corpus was proceeded
in order to check the amount of production in the time lapse and how the mentioned
research behaved. Considering what was presented until now, the objective of this
article is to make a Systematic Review of Literature (SRL) about the number of
scientific articles published in the last ten years, according to Scopus and Web the
Science databases.
2 Research Method
Based on the particular needs of this research, due to its objectives, it was decided to
conduct a systematic review of literature, summarizing the results of studies related
to a particular problem, analyzing possible contributions (Malhotra 2005). Furthermore, Tranfield et al. (2003) comprehend that in the studies which relate to the
administration area, the literature review is the main tool to approach the diversity of
knowledge because, according to Ridley (2008), it gives opportunity to the conclusions of the reviewer to be found, mainly due to his/her structured and transparent
process.
In this context, the fact that the systematic review is the scientific method from
which it is possible to search for and analyze documents of some specific area, it
is transformed into a “specific method of location of existing studies, selection and
assessment of contributions, analysis and synthesis of information, description of
109
How to face and work with Sustainability to ensure that today’s actions will not
limit the range of economic, social and environmental options available to future generations. From this perspective, the reflection challenges to look for an understanding
of the relationship and conflict between capitalism and sustainability.
Even tough, it is important to have in mind that the social economy progresses
in parallel to the global one, so many social problems are unresolved, such as social
inequalities, sustainability factors and epidemics that do not stop growing. Therefore,
efforts have been made so that there is support for the neediest communities. For
André and Abreu (2006), social innovation is a new and socially recognized response
in which the goal is to generate social changes, from three attributes:
(i) satisfaction of human needs not satisfied by the market; (ii) promotion of social inclusion; and (iii) training of agents or subject actors, potentially or actually, to processes of
exclusion/social marginalization, triggering, in this way, a change, more or less intense, of
the power relations (André and Abreu 2006, p. 124).
Given the increased attention that has fallen on “social innovation” in recent
times—which can be seen by reading the works of various authors, such as those
who will be cited in this article—it was chosen, in this research, to analyze the
scientific production that involves the issue studied.
In other words, from the selection of scientific articles based on criteria previously
established, it was identified a certain amount of production covering the subject in
the last decade. After it, the cut and the analysis of the selected corpus was proceeded
in order to check the amount of production in the time lapse and how the mentioned
research behaved. Considering what was presented until now, the objective of this
article is to make a Systematic Review of Literature (SRL) about the number of
scientific articles published in the last ten years, according to Scopus and Web the
Science databases.
2 Research Method
Based on the particular needs of this research, due to its objectives, it was decided to
conduct a systematic review of literature, summarizing the results of studies related
to a particular problem, analyzing possible contributions (Malhotra 2005). Furthermore, Tranfield et al. (2003) comprehend that in the studies which relate to the
administration area, the literature review is the main tool to approach the diversity of
knowledge because, according to Ridley (2008), it gives opportunity to the conclusions of the reviewer to be found, mainly due to his/her structured and transparent
process.
In this context, the fact that the systematic review is the scientific method from
which it is possible to search for and analyze documents of some specific area, it
is transformed into a “specific method of location of existing studies, selection and
assessment of contributions, analysis and synthesis of information, description of