PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the organising of social innovation in a large market-based social enterprises from the perspective of dynamic capabilities and social transformation.Design/methodology/approachThis paper analyses the process by which Desjardins Group launched the Desjardins Environment Fund as the first investment fund in North America to integrate environmental screening. It uses longitudinal single case analysis and a theoretical framework based on Teece’s three dynamic capabilities.FindingsResults show that dynamic capabilities can be conceived as stages in the process of social innovation. Sensing refers to the capability to identify a societal demand for social transformation. Seizing capability is about shaping societal demand into a commercial offer. Reconfiguring concerns organisational innovation to integrate actual and new knowledge through innovative routines. Microprocesses of both path dependency and path building are in action at each of the three stages.Practical implicationsThis paper shows that managing dynamic capabilities is central to social innovation in the context of a large social business and provides genuine managerial input via an analysis of the microprocesses at work in the social innovation process.Originality/valueThis paper contributes to the operationalization of Teece’s dynamic capabilities model. In mobilising a framework in the field of management of innovation, it contributes to the understanding of the process of social innovation and develops the organisational mechanism for multiscalarity of social innovation as a condition for social transformation.
ObjectivesScientific knowledge can help develop interventions that improve public health. The objectives of this review are (1) to describe the status of research on knowledge transfer strategies in the field of complex social interventions in public health and (2) to identify priorities for future research in this field.MethodA scoping study is an exploratory study. After searching databases of bibliographic references and specialized periodicals, we summarized the relevant studies using a predetermined assessment framework. In-depth analysis focused on the following items: types of knowledge transfer strategies, fields of public health, types of publics, types of utilization, and types of research specifications.ResultsFrom the 1,374 references identified, we selected 26 studies. The strategies targeted mostly administrators of organizations and practitioners. The articles generally dealt with instrumental utilization and most often used qualitative methods. In general, the bias risk for the studies is high.ConclusionResearchers need to consider the methodological challenges in this field of research in order to improve assessment of more complex knowledge transfer strategies (when they exist), not just diffusion/dissemination strategies and conceptual and persuasive utilization.
RESUMOEste artigo pertence ao campo dos estudos sobre governança, em especial em organizações sem fins lucrativos. O conceito de governança é abordado em múltiplas áreas do conhecimento e segundo várias perspectivas teóricas. A forte influência da teoria da agência confere-lhe comumente o sentido de práticas de controle para maior eficiência e transparência na gestão organizacional. Há, entretanto, perspectivas teóricas alternativas, tais como a economia social, que considera a governança como uma categoria analítica associada a conceitos como participação, parceria, aprendizagem coletiva, regulação e favorecimento de estruturas organizacionais descentralizadas e democráticas. Para compor uma estrutura de governança com tais características, pode-se aprender bastante com o conceito de empreendedor coletivo (Malo, 2000), que oferece contribuição para o desenvolvimento de estruturas participativas e democráticas, como pudemos concluir com o estudo do caso Doutores da Alegria. A análise de tal caso oferece proposições decorrentes da comparação entre as perspectivas teóricas e o emprego do conceito de empreendedor coletivo. Os resultados são uma contribuição para o esclarecimento, evolução e crítica do conceito de governança.Palavras-chave: governança; organizações sem fins lucrativos; empreendedor coletivo; poder compartilhado. ABSTRACTThis article relates to the field of studies in governance, particularly as applied to non-profit organizations. It addresses the governance concept in multi-knowledge areas and under various theoretical perspectives. In general, the strong influence of the agency theory imparts to the term the meaning of control practices towards a higher organizational efficiency. It contains, however, alternative approaches that consider governance as an analytical category associated with concepts such as participation, alliance, collective learning, regulation of and facilitation to decentralized and democratic organization structures. Governance structures are organizational identity building mechanisms. In this connection, the collective entrepreneur concept offers an important contribution to the development of a participating and democratic structure (Malo, 2000), as one could conclude from the Doutores da Alegria case study. The discussion provides propositions stemming from the comparison between theoretical sources and an in-depth study of the alternative approach. The results conduce toward the explanation, evolution and criticism of the concept.
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