Orchestration networks for social innovation
Stream #21
Stream #21
Chairs: Benedetto Cannatelli (Università Cattolica), Alessandro Giudici (Cass Business School – City University Of London)
Scaling social impact is rarely a process triggered by stand-alone organizations but requires the interplay of a multiplicity of actors operating at different levels in the economic, social and political environment. For example, it is often the case that private and public institutions need to join their efforts on promoting social innovation to tackle longstanding social issues and inequalities. A crucial role is played by intermediary organizations – e.g. incubators, accelerators, government agencies, venture associations, research centers, etc. – that enhance the potential for value creation of multi-stakeholder networks by orchestrating how they work together when searching for suitable solutions to wicked problems.
Prior research documents several examples of intermediary organizations and broadly suggests that, when focusing on commercial innovation, they tend to engage in two main types of activities: the creation of market infrastructures (bridging) and the development of business capabilities (buffering). Yet, there remains a paucity of research on how the actual processes, resources, and capabilities that would be required to support more socially oriented innovation. While several fragmented insights exist in academic streams like entrepreneurship, institutionalism, and innovation in emerging economies, many questions remain unanswered and we believe it is time to start bringing the conversation together.
For this reason, we invite contributions to this stream on the following (non-exhaustive) topics related to the broader theme of orchestrating networks for social innovation:
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