Call for Papers: Special Issue of Business & Society
Social Innovation: Insights from Institutional Theory
Guest editors:
Silvia Dorado, University of Rhode Island
Ignasi Marti, EMLYON Business School, OCE Research Center
Jakomijn van Wijk, Maastricht School of Management
Charlene Zietsma, Schulich School of Business, York University
Submission deadline: September 1, 2015
Social innovation refers to the process of developing and implementing
novel solutions to social problems, often involving re-negotiations of
settled institutions among diverse actors with conflicting logics. As such,
social innovation entails institutional change. Social innovations are
urgently needed as we confront “wicked problems” (Rittel and Weber, 1973),
such as climate change, poverty alleviation, income inequality and
persistent societal conflicts. Such problems feature substantial
interdependencies among multiple systems and actors, and have
redistributive implications for entrenched interests (Rayner, 2006).
Institutional research has played a significant role in the study of
efforts to alleviate social problems (Battilana & Dorado, 2010; Dorado,
2013; Hallett, 2010; Lawrence, Hardy & Phillips, 2002; Maguire, Hardy &
Lawrence, 2004; Zietsma & Lawrence, 2010), and is well positioned to
contribute to an improved understanding of social innovation.
Institutional theory starts at a macro-level, assessing the positions and
interdependent actions of the multiple constituents of issue-focused fields
(Wooten & Hoffman, 2008; Zietsma & Lawrence, 2010), and considering
seriously the idea that rules, norms and beliefs are socially constituted,
negotiated orders (Marti, Courpasson & Barbosa, 2013; Strauss, 1978), which
can be renegotiated in socially innovative ways (e.g. Van Wijk, Stam,
Elfring, Zietsma & den Hond, 2013). The study of institutional work
emphasizes the creation, disruption and maintenance of the
institutionalized social structures that govern behavior (Lawrence &
Suddaby, 2006), and thus speaks to how entrenched practices and ideas get
held in place, and how they may be replaced with more socially beneficial
arrangements. Furthermore, the burgeoning institutional complexity
perspective, with its focus on how actors respond to multiple, sometimes
competing logics (Greenwood, Raynard, Kodeih, Micelotta & Lounsbury, 2011),
applies well to the context of wicked societal problems.
Taking an institutional perspective on social innovation suggests several
topics and a range of interesting questions in line with our theme, listed
in the full call for papers, available at:
http://www.iabs.net/Research/BusinessSociety/SpecialIssueCallSocialInnovation.aspx
.
A paper development workshop is planned at EMLyon in France from March
27-29, 2016.
Apologies for cross-postings.
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Dr. Charlene Zietsma
Associate Professor and Ann Brown Chair in Organization Studies
Director, Entrepreneurial Studies
Schulich School of Business, SSB N317
York University
4700 Keele Street
Toronto, ON, CANADA
M3J 1P3
(416) 736-2100, Ext. 77919.
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