Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Encyclopedia of Sustainable Management , René Schmidpeter,Nicholas Capaldi,Rute Abreu, Editör, Springer, London/Berlin , La-Chaux-De-Fonds, ss.3005-3008, 2023
The last recent decades witnessed a fundamental change in the philosophy of doing business in which the underlying motive is to create value for society rather than increasing the wealth of shareholders. This ultimate shift in business perspective spurred the emergence of the term “social innovation” (Phillips et al. 2019). Social innovation as an overarching research stream encompasses a line of intra and interorganizational efforts that primarily focus on easing societal problems. Although the definition of social innovation remains contested, the common feature of majority of the definitions reflects the innovative activities to create and realize novel solutions for societies’ unsolved problems and unmet needs such as poverty, epidemics, environmental problems, human rights, and social inequality (Mulgan 2006; Phills et al. 2008). In this domain, social innovation echoes the innovative efforts of social entrepreneurs who address the societal problems and initiate social transformation through founding profit or non-profit oriented organizations. Accordingly, social entrepreneurs are considered as the generators of social innovations that are needed for the well-being of societies rather than maximizing profit of shareholders. In other words, social innovations are deliverers of sustainable outcomes that are beneficial for societies.