Understanding social change through catalytic innovation: Empirical findings in Mexican social entrepreneurship

Abstract

Christensen, Baumann, Ruggles, and Sadtler (2006) proposed that organizations addressing social problems may use catalytic innovation as a strategy to create social change. These innovations aim to create scalable, sustainable, and systemschanging solutions. This empirical study examines: (a) whether catalytic innovation applies to Mexican social entrepreneurship; (b) whether those who adopt Christensen et al.'s (2006) strategy generate more social impact; and (c) whether they demonstrate economic success. We performed a survey of 219 Mexican social entrepreneurs and found that catalytic innovation does occur within social entrepreneurship, and that those social entrepreneurs who use catalytic innovations not only maximize their social impact but also maximize their profits, and that they do so with diminishing returns to scale. Copyright

Determinants of innovative social entrepreneurship

“…Recent works discuss this previous position, providing important empirical evidence on the specific characteristics of innovation in SE (DEES, 1998;ALVORD;BROWN;LETTS, 2004;AUVINET;LLORET, 2015;PUUMALAINEN et al, 2015). Based on a review of numerous cases, Alvord, Brown and Letts (2004, p. 270) show that "successful SE uses innovations that mobilize the assets of marginalized groups to improve their lives, rather than just delivering external resources and services".…”

“…This process comprises several activities undertaken to transform ideas into context-specific and, usually, environmentally-friendly solutions, and achieve social transformations (WEERAWARDENA;MORT, 2006;AUSTIN;STEVENSON;WEI-SKILLERN, 2006). The generation of income, as well as the creation of both incremental and radical innovations, are key elements in the success of SE (ALVORD; BROWN;LETTS, 2004;TANDON, 2014;AUVINET;LLORET, 2015), especially in those with hybrid business models -such as Isla Urbana. Thus, when innovation is included, the concept evolves towards innovative social entrepreneurship.…”

“…However, just a few works provide detailed explanations from a global perspective that contemplates the relation between the individual, organizational and contextual levels, e.g., Popoviciu and Popoviciu (2011) and Puumalainen et al (2015). The literature begins to get interest in the analysis of innovations created by these ventures and, also, of their involvement in the ISE phenomenon (ALVORD; BROWN;LETTS, 2004;TANDON, 2014;AUVINET;LLORET, 2015).…”

Naturaleza de la innovación y modelo de negocios en el emprendimiento innovador

“…Trabajos recientes discuten la postura anterior. Desde una perspectiva latinoamericana, se aportan importantes ideas y evidencia sobre las especificidades de la innovación en los ESI de la región (Martínez y Dutrénit, 2017;Auvinet y Lloret, 2015), como las que señalan que la innovación es por lo general en servicios e implica una relación estrecha y sistémica con los beneficiarios. Aunado a esto, a partir de la revisión de diversos casos de ESI en el mundo, Alvord et al (2004, p. 270) muestran que "el emprendimiento social exitoso utiliza innovaciones que movilizan los activos de grupos marginados para mejorar sus vidas, en lugar de sólo entregar recursos y servicios externos".…”

Peran Tata Kelola Lembaga Zakat Dalam Pemberdayaan Social Entrepreneur

“…Cherrier, Goswami, & Ray (2018) me nerangkan bahwa social entrepreneur adalah seseorang yang memahami permasalahan sosial dan berupaya menggunakan keahlian entrepreneurshipnya untuk menciptakan perubahan sosial, khususnya di bidang ke sejahteraan. Beberapa penelitian mengenai wirausaha sosial membahas mengenai kon sep dan praktek kewirausahaan sosial yang merupakan cara baru dalam mengatasi ma salah sosial (Auvinet & Lloret, 2015;Desa & Basu, 2013;Shaw & Bruin, 2013). Tujuan dari social entrepreneur yang bertujuan un tuk menyelesaikan masalah sosial ini se laras dengan fungsi zakat yang disampaikan oleh Rahdari, Sepasi, & Moradi (2016) se bagai saluran alokasi sumber daya, distribu si keadilan, dan social security, serta menja di stimulan dalam kestabilan perekonomian.…”