Modelo descritivo de atuação sustentável para o desenvolvimento de inovações sociais

Abstract

Purpose: The concept of social innovation as open, collaborative and social transformation process opens room to reinforce the need of legitimizing social impact businesses and of expanding partnerships for social change, as well as the urgency of establishing professional and more sustainable social innovation environments. Accordingly, we tried to answer the following research question: How can social business performance boost the development of social innovations?Design/methodology/approach: Therefore, we adopted the inductive approach of qualitative paradigm, based on the Grounded Theory, to investigate 24 social businesses. In addition, we adopted the Atlas.ti software for data organization and recovery.Aggregate results allowed us to propose a descriptive model of sustainable performance for the development of social innovations in social business, based on the following propositions: sustainable performance in processes and social innovation, the prevalence of a cooperative environment to solve social issues, professional governance as causal factor to social innovation development, the development of actions focused on public interests as influencing conditions for social innovation development, technical and scientific evaluation of social impacts as strategy to measure the outcomes of developed innovations and the expansion of social impacts as the consequence of the self-negotiation of social affairs.Originality/value: A descriptive model of sustainable acting was proposed for the development of social innovations in social businesses.

Influence of intellectual capital and individual absorptive capacity on innovation performance

“…With regard to human capital, although Stewart (1998) reports that such capital is neither generated nor used in routine activities and therefore knowledge, changes and innovations fail to be developed, we should emphasize that, in connection with public institutions, technology advances have required innovative tools and improved civil servants knowledge (Hilgers & Ihl, 2010;Costa, Itelvino & Monken, 2021).…”