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    Call for Submissions

    Research Handbook on Socio-Tech Entrepreneurship: Navigating the Nexus Between Social Entrepreneurship and Technology

    Edward Elgar Publishing

    Editors: Dr. Joanne Scillitoe, Dr. Latha Poonamallee, Dr. Simy Joy, Dr. Ana Cristina Siqueira and Dr. Sarah Kimakwa


    The intersection of social challenges and technological advancements presents a fertile ground for a new wave of innovative entrepreneurship increasingly referred to as Socio-Tech Entrepreneurship. Socio-Tech Entrepreneurship offers the promise of a transformative entrepreneurial landscape that will result in growth oriented and profitable ventures, scalable societal impact, greater equity, and inclusive prosperity. This handbook aims to explore the burgeoning field of Socio-Tech Entrepreneurship, emphasizing how entrepreneurs and ventures leverage core, value-added technologies to address societal needs while also navigating the complexities and, at times, conflicting approaches towards economic and social impact. In addition, this handbook will explore the changing dynamics of entrepreneurial ecosystems that support Socio-Tech Entrepreneurship.

    In this handbook, we add to this field by focusing on socio-tech innovation and entrepreneurship (Scillitoe, Poonamallee & Joy, 2016, 2018). Research on socio-tech ventures is a particularly important research topic given an increasing number of technology ventures founded today globally have a social orientation and span both the for-profit and nonprofit worlds. The structure of these organizations can range from for-profit, non-profit, hybrid, co-ops, public to social movement organizations as long as they are both explicitly social and explicitly technological. We call these ventures socio-tech ventures. For example, organizations may develop or employ technologies such as in the field of decentralized finance for promoting entrepreneurship and socioeconomic development in underserved communities (Siqueira, Honig, Mariano, & Moraes, 2020). Additional examples include entrepreneurially ingenious ventures in fields such as renewable energy and recyclable supply chain equipment focused on sustainable solutions (Siqueira & Honig, 2019). Our proposed linkage of social entrepreneurship with technology entrepreneurship offers to provide new insights to create scalable and economically impactful ventures that generate social value. However, early research suggests that a direct translation of technology entrepreneurship nor social entrepreneurship knowledge and models to socio-tech ventures is not clear cut and suggests new knowledge is needed in this new and valuable area of research (Scillitoe, Poonamallee & Joy, 2016; Scillitoe, Poonamallee & Joy, 2018).

    We invite abstracts and ideas that explore this topic and current debates using theoretical and empirical approaches from various disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives. Theories can span but not be limited to social entrepreneurship, technology and innovation management, technology entrepreneurship, organizational behavior, organizational theory, economics, institutional theory, and strategic management. Moreover, we encourage authors to incorporate inclusive theoretical perspectives originating in underrepresented nations or communities (Siqueira, Honig, Cunha, Mariano, & Moraes, 2023) and developed by authors from diverse backgrounds. We welcome submissions detailing quantitative, qualitative or mixed method research approaches of any ontological and epistemological underpinnings. Key themes will include entrepreneurial and innovation ecosystems, social entrepreneurship, technological innovation management, technology entrepreneurship, technology and social justice, core technologies vs facilitative technologies, circular economies, indigenous technologies, and impact measurement. We also welcome a limited number of case-studies and interviews with socio-tech ventures that provide practical insights and teaching tools as well as pedagogical approaches provided they are grounded in rigorous

     

    theoretical frameworks. To begin this conversation, please submit a 1-page abstract on or before Sept 1, 2024.

     Example of topics (but not limited to):

    ·       Resources and Socio-Tech Innov. Processes

    ·       Socio-Tech Innovation Clusters

    ·       Incubator Dynamics

    ·       Socio-Tech Business Models

    ·       Socio-Tech Financing

    ·       Socio-Tech Markets and marketing

    ·       Addressing bias and skew in training data

    ·       Human Resources and Socio-Techs

    ·       Socio-Tech Leadership

    ·       Social Movements and Technology Innov.

    ·       Social Justice Dynamics

    ·       Institutional Shifts

    ·       Point of care tech development and rural medicine

    ·       Algorithmic People Management or Surveillance Capitalism

    ·       Indigenous Technologies

    ·       Democratization of Data and AI models

    ·       Decentralized finance and blockchain

    technologies for socioeconomic empowerment

    ·       Technology and Last Mile Delivery: Reducing gaps and inequalities in healthcare innovation

    and development.

    ·       Patent protection, capital, barriers to entry

    ·       Distributed Internet on Rural Development

    ·       Gen AI and social challenges

    ·       Aging population and technology

    ·       Philosophies of Technologies and Social Impact

    ·       Decentralized clinical trials and role of technology

    ·       Inclusive Entrepreneurship and Innovation

    ·       AI solutions for education and social mobility

    ·       Technology and Food Justice

    ·       Technology mediated solidarity movements.

    ·       Technology and mental health issues among adolescents/young people

    ·       Place attachment, infrastructure planning in urban areas for a healthy society.

    ·       Tech development and democracy

    ·       Technology solutions in circular economy

    ·       Sustainability impacts of technology adoption and escalation

    ·       Technology development and disaster preparedness

    ·       Technology and climate mitigation

    ·       Space economy and social impact

    ·       Technology enabled immersive experiences for humanities.

    ·       Impact of Gen AI on artist lives/creative economies

    ·       Tech development, job security, and economic development

    ·       Blockchain technology and AI in sustainable supply chains

    ·       Growth, scaling and impact strategies of Socio-Techs

    Project Timeline:

      Deadline for abstract submission: Sept 1, 2024

      Shortlist 10-15 authors for full chapter submission, Oct 15, 2024

      Consent for participation in AOM PDW submission, Dec 1, 2024

      Deadline for complete chapter submission, Jan 1, 2025

      Feedback to Authors: April 1, 2025

      Revised Submission Deadline: August 1, 2025

      Participate in the AOM PDW (optional), August 2025

      Final Manuscript Submission, Nov 1, 2025

    For questions and submissions, please contact the editors at: joanne.scillitoe@csun.edu or poonamallee@newschool.edu



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    Ana Cristina O. Siqueira, Ph.D.
    Professor
    Director, Center for Socially Responsible Entrepreneurship and Innovation
    Cotsakos College of Business
    William Paterson University
    1600 Valley Road
    Wayne, New Jersey 07470
    Phone: 973-720-2755
    Email: siqueiraa@wpunj.edu
    https://wpconnect.wpunj.edu/directories/faculty/default.cfm?user=siqueiraa
    https://www.wpunj.edu/ccob/csrei/
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