The Relevance of Systems Thinking in the Quest for Multifinal Social Enterprises

Dzombak, Rachel; Mehta, Chanakya; Mehta, Khanjan; Bilén, Sven G.

doi:10.1007/s11213-013-9313-9

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“…The use of a system thinking approach in recognizing the context and interrelationship among actors can guide to a framework that can enhance their behavior in the CoSoI process [80]. Fullan [81] emphasized that most of the HEIs fail in innovation as they have not understood how to develop system thinking in action.…”

Section: Systemic Thinking Perspective For Organizational Change and mentioning

confidence: 99%

Co-Creation for Social Innovation in the Ecosystem Context: The Role of Higher Educational Institutions

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This study examined the role of Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs) in promoting, creating, and sustaining social innovation. Recently, HEIs have extended their contribution beyond the traditional function of teaching and research to perform in socio-economic problem-solving. Considering the increasing trends of higher education involvement in social innovation practices, this study tries to examine the tools such as learning processes and systemic thinking approach that could be helpful to align the function and responsibilities of HEIs towards social innovation. The objective is to develop a theoretical understanding of the “co-creation for social innovation” concept and to understand the functions and activities of HEIs that can contribute to this process. To promote co-creation for social innovation, HEIs should actively encourage collaborative learning tools that focus on open platforms for collective action and systemic change that help them to engage with society and strengthen their collaboration with social actors. Different activities such as mutual learning and knowledge diffusion using a transdisciplinary approach, technology-based learning and collaboration, and relational transformation are key enablers that can promote social innovation.

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Section: Systemic Thinking Perspective For Organizational Change and mentioning

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Co-Creation for Social Innovation in the Ecosystem Context: The Role of Higher Educational Institutions

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“…The tenets of systems thinking may provide an answer for managing the development and operation of sustainable enterprises. Mission-driven enterprises may be aided by the holistic approach that system thinking offers as to solve complex problems by considering every issue as a part of a web of interconnected and interacting systems rather than as independent issues with unrelated consequences (Dzombak, Mehta, Mehta, & Bilén, 2013). Below the eight tenets of systems thinking will be discussed, taken mainly from Dzombak et al (2013), with a corresponding explanation how these tenets fit in the approach of a systems perspective of mission-driven entrepreneurship in this PhD research.…”

Section: Mission-driven Entrepreneurship and The Eight Tenets Of Systmentioning

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“…Tenet 1: Interdependence, defined as the mutually beneficial and reciprocal relationship between systems (Dzombak et al, 2013). It is aimed at satisfying the needs for development, co-creation, and resource optimization to achieve relational integrity within a larger system, of which every small individual system is a subsystem.…”

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“…Tenet 2: Holism, with two main aspects that (1) the parts of any system can only exist and be understood in their relationships to the whole, and (2) the whole is always greater than the sum of its individual parts (Dzombak et al, 2013).…”

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“…Increasing the level of abstraction implies 32 moving away from specific details about an object, event, or idea, and shifting the discussion or analysis to include broader aspects. When applied to mission-driven enterprises, abstractions may provide a means of showing how grassroots action can affect wider change (Dzombak et al, 2013).…”

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Given its material impact on bottom lines, social responsibility became essential to supply chain sustainability strategies. The authors of this paper reviewed the relevant literature and discovered its reliance on approaches like corporate social responsibility and its marginalization of systems thinking. This situation undermines the contributions of this literature, as it could be reductionist from a systemic perspective. Reductionism limits solutions to suboptimizations incapable of achieving multifinal and holistic outcomes. To assess this literature, the authors conducted a mapping study to analyse its distribution over four systemic paradigms: functionalism, interpretivism, emancipation, and postmodernism. The results showed that it clustered unevenly around these paradigms and lacked pluralism in perspective. This paper is significant as it revealed the innate inability of most of the supply chain social responsibility literature in offering creative and holistic solutions. Therefore, this literature can only resolve some social responsibility factors allowing the persistence and resurfacing of social responsibility messes.

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The Relevance of Systems Thinking in the Quest for Multifinal Social Enterprises

Cited by 21 publications

References 28 publications

Co-Creation for Social Innovation in the Ecosystem Context: The Role of Higher Educational Institutions

Co-Creation for Social Innovation in the Ecosystem Context: The Role of Higher Educational Institutions

Mission-driven entrepreneurship in ecosystems for sustainable systems change

A Systems Thinking Analysis of the Supply Chain Social Responsibility Literature

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