The concept of innovation in social economy. A review and a research agenda

Elena-Simina Lakatos (), Oana Bianca Bercea and Laura Bacali Bacali
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Elena-Simina Lakatos: Center for Innovation and Organizational Sustainability, Romania
Oana Bianca Bercea: Management and Economic Engineering Department, Faculty of Machine Building, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Laura Bacali Bacali: Management and Economic Engineering Department, Faculty of Machine Building, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Review of Applied Socio-Economic Research, 2016, vol. 11, issue 1, 32-50

Abstract: Current research provides evidence that traditional business and public sector organizations are not the only structures that encourage development through innovation. A more recent form of organization known under the name of "social enterprise" has a great potential to innovate services, products and processes which can create social value. We have reviewed an array of social economy literature incorporating into it the concept of innovation. Following the grounded theory procedure we have analysed 59 papers in the field of social economy published between 1990 and 2014 so as to see the current state of knowledge regarding the innovative dimension of social enterprises. The innovative dimension of the social enterprise has been found to have been rather neglected by the research field, which tend to adhere to a more theoretical rather than empirical direction. A future research agenda is proposed here, so as to address this issue.

Keywords: Social enterprise; Innovation; Social innovation; Social entrepreneurship; Social value (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L23 L26 L31 O35 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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