Brief Analysis of the Scientific Articles Produced About …
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The study field of social innovation has occupied a prominent place in educational
institutions, mainly due to the social, economic and civil scenario that gains strength
with the crises that countless countries have undergone over the past few years. Thus,
there is incapacity—especially from the governments—to cover the basic needs of
their citizens, so that it resulted in social mobilization through emerging practices
that aim to fulfill the expectations that are no longer supported by the ones who
previously did it.
Thus, for being recent, it cannot be said that there is current scientific literature
that deeply discussed the issue. For this reason, the concept is still quite flexible and
shows ambiguities. The opening resulted from the gaps related to “social innovation”
can be a further study of many other researches, like this one.
So, after checking 254 academic productions, in which of the articles the studied
expression was more sought—through the analysis of the summaries of each one of
them—a few points became clear. Because of the short time, this study analyzed just
some of them.
First, it was tangible the low number of studies that propose to clarify the notion
of “social innovation”. This is especially necessary because, in recent years, the
term has taken a different way of the one related to it (which was the one related to
business). As a result, today the term still suffers from understandings that border
the ambiguity, which could end up distorting the context of future research.
Second, it was noted that, due to the updated concept has not been understood by
the academy yet, the works which analyze case studies or practical applications of
the IS assumptions are produced in low amounts.
This article did not have the intention to exhaust the subject, but only carry out a
data collection in order to review the literature that dealt on “social innovation” in
the past decade, from two databases. The analysis carried out here is not deep, which
allows further studies on the issues raised in this paper.
Being “Social Innovation” a reality that has been established worldwide in the
recent years and that, apparently, soon will no longer be part of the most diverse
realities, it is important to mention that the importance of its study and understanding
in the academic context, as a social phenomenon, could be properly understood.
References
André I, Abreu A (2006) Dimensões e espaços da inovação social. Finisterra: Rev Port Geogr
41(81):121–141
Barnett M, Darnall N, Husted, BW (2015) Sustainability strategy in constrained economic times.
Long Range Plan 48(2):63–68. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lrp.2014.07.00
Baumgartner RJ ( 2014) Managing corporate sustainability and CSR: a conceptual framework
combining values, strategies and instruments contributing to sustainable development. Corp Soc
Responsib Environ Mgmt 21:258–271. https://doi.org/10.1002/csr.1336
Bignetti LP (2011) As inovações sociais: uma incursão por ideias, tendências e focos de pesquisa.
Ciências Sociais Unisinos 47(1):3–14
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The study field of social innovation has occupied a prominent place in educational
institutions, mainly due to the social, economic and civil scenario that gains strength
with the crises that countless countries have undergone over the past few years. Thus,
there is incapacity—especially from the governments—to cover the basic needs of
their citizens, so that it resulted in social mobilization through emerging practices
that aim to fulfill the expectations that are no longer supported by the ones who
previously did it.
Thus, for being recent, it cannot be said that there is current scientific literature
that deeply discussed the issue. For this reason, the concept is still quite flexible and
shows ambiguities. The opening resulted from the gaps related to “social innovation”
can be a further study of many other researches, like this one.
So, after checking 254 academic productions, in which of the articles the studied
expression was more sought—through the analysis of the summaries of each one of
them—a few points became clear. Because of the short time, this study analyzed just
some of them.
First, it was tangible the low number of studies that propose to clarify the notion
of “social innovation”. This is especially necessary because, in recent years, the
term has taken a different way of the one related to it (which was the one related to
business). As a result, today the term still suffers from understandings that border
the ambiguity, which could end up distorting the context of future research.
Second, it was noted that, due to the updated concept has not been understood by
the academy yet, the works which analyze case studies or practical applications of
the IS assumptions are produced in low amounts.
This article did not have the intention to exhaust the subject, but only carry out a
data collection in order to review the literature that dealt on “social innovation” in
the past decade, from two databases. The analysis carried out here is not deep, which
allows further studies on the issues raised in this paper.
Being “Social Innovation” a reality that has been established worldwide in the
recent years and that, apparently, soon will no longer be part of the most diverse
realities, it is important to mention that the importance of its study and understanding
in the academic context, as a social phenomenon, could be properly understood.
References
André I, Abreu A (2006) Dimensões e espaços da inovação social. Finisterra: Rev Port Geogr
41(81):121–141
Barnett M, Darnall N, Husted, BW (2015) Sustainability strategy in constrained economic times.
Long Range Plan 48(2):63–68. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lrp.2014.07.00
Baumgartner RJ ( 2014) Managing corporate sustainability and CSR: a conceptual framework
combining values, strategies and instruments contributing to sustainable development. Corp Soc
Responsib Environ Mgmt 21:258–271. https://doi.org/10.1002/csr.1336
Bignetti LP (2011) As inovações sociais: uma incursão por ideias, tendências e focos de pesquisa.
Ciências Sociais Unisinos 47(1):3–14