Please consider submitting your work to the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASEorg.) mini-conference that I have helped to organize (along with Silvia Dorado, Alex Nicholls, Ana Maria Peredo and Marc Ventresca).  What you need to do is submit a 1,000 words abstract by January 15, 2015 through SASE's automated system.  Make sure that you select our miniconference (we are # 9).  A complete paper is due in June. I have pasted in the call for papers below. 

We hope to engage a diverse group of social sciences-informed colleagues to help integrate across different 'pockets' of work on social change, innovation and entrepreneurship – hence the SASE venue.  This Miniconference aims to capture the next generation of studies exploring innovation and entrepreneurship for social change. It springs from recent efforts to bring a deeper appreciation of the theoretical changes generated by early research in this area on our understanding of the role of individuals, the features of organizing, and the forms social change. In my opinion, this forum represents an opportunity for us to move beyond making narrow claims about the importance and centrality of entrepreneurship in changing the world for the better to showing it on a much broader canvas than many of us typically imagine. This is a distinctively different opportunity for entrepreneurship scholars to engage with a heterogeneous group of researchers who care about many of the same things we do, beyond (though not excluding) notions of sustainable competitive advantage.  

Consider also the beauty of the setting (Milan) and SASE's growing popularity as a mixed discipline forum.  This SASE format allows us to create a workshop-type of  environment (with connected individual paper session and panel discussions) that encourages continued conversation and feedback.  For more details visit see the call for papers https://sase.org/2013---milan/mini-conferences_fr_158.html (and attached). Plus, you will get to hang out with really cool people.  

Ted Baker 

9. Social Change, Innovation, and Entrepreneurial Activity

Contemporary research on social entrepreneurship and social innovation found its inspiration at the grassroots. Scholars interested in fundamental social change studied the efforts of pioneering social entrepreneurs working with the least advantaged people and communities. The commonalities in these efforts were a fresh view of market processes to drive social change in the context of intractable social problems such as poverty and environmental degradation. Over the years, some of the pioneering efforts studied have turned into established markets, new industries, and broader institution arrangements in sourcing, production, and governance, e.g., microfinance, fair-trade, or more recently crowd funding and mobile services). But most scholarship in this tradition remains preliminary, often locked within earlier conceptions on the role of entrepreneurship and innovation in processes of economic growth.

This Miniconference aims to capture the next generation of studies exploring innovation and entrepreneurship for social change. It springs from recent efforts to bring a deeper appreciation of the theoretical changes generated by early research in this area on our understanding of the role of individuals, the features of organizing, and the forms social change. This new scholarship provokes us to rethink or reuse familiar concepts of social change and systems impact with novel practical preoccupations (Dorado & Ventresca, 2012; J. Mair, Marti, & Ventresca, 2012; Mair & Marti, 2009). It also both challenges and enhances legacy theoretical perspectives with novel questions about the emergence, resilience, and diffusion of social entrepreneurship and innovation (Battilana & Dorado, 2010; Dacin, Dacin, & Matear, 2010; Nicholls, 2006; Westley, Patton, & Zimmerman, 2007). But to this point, this research has progressed only far enough to demonstrate that our theories and questions are often inadequate for a full and fresh understanding of these phenomena. Much work remains!

We take advantage of SASE's uniquely interdisciplinary character and format to convene researchers who represent this range of approaches and traditions of theory and evidence. We want to attract theoretical essays and empirical explorations that consider social change, innovation, and entrepreneurship as a platform to refine our understanding of what social change means and how it works. We are equally interested in work that investigates the contexts for how what we know about social change can serve practitioners engaged in this area of social initiatives. We call for papers that

· Work across the gamut of theoretical approaches currently being explored in this area (e.g., institutional theories of change, legitimacy, and governance, resource mobilization theory, entrepreneurial leadership and opportunity recognition, and social network analysis).

· Bring approaches currently under-developed in studies of social innovation and entrepreneurship, including collective action, civic engagement, identity theory, institutional leadership, and comparative/historical studies.

· Start from perspectives in heterodox economics, history, and partner social sciences disciplines.

· Explore topics ranging from community-based entrepreneurship to the role of profit-seeking in "Bottom of the Pyramid" initiatives, from inclusive business model to franchising of social innovations, from market development to grassroots institutional reform, from donor to profit-based sustainability models

· Make use of varied units/levels of analysis ranging from individual, to organizational to community, national and global, as well as cross-level studies.

· Further, we welcome perspectives ranging from institutional logics, to complexity, to entrepreneurial resourcefulness, to social change, to technology innovation.

In short, we invite interesting papers (Davis, 1971) from a wide range of disciplines and perspectives. If we haven't thought of a perspective and listed it above, that could well mean that we will find it more rather than less interesting. So please consider sending us your very best stuff. We promise you a vibrant conversation and exchange of ideas among a group of people with a common set of passions and a divergent set of ideas.