Social Innovation by Giving a Voice

Thomas Walker () and Florian Beranek ()
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Thomas Walker: Institute for sustainable solutions
Florian Beranek: UNIDO (United Nations Industrial Development Organization)

A chapter in Social Innovation, 2013, pp 239-249 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Social innovations are human innovations, made by humans, for humans, in interaction with humans, based on human and ethical values, in a human scale. Social innovations can never be made isolated from humans. But this often happens. Politicians, managers or other leading people are saying: “We know what is right for you, the community/society! – You have to change this or that; Your behavior should look like this; Your responsibility is that …”. This is not an innovation. – This is a manipulation! To get able to come from manipulations to social innovations we need methodologies to get able to give humans a voice. Social innovations are always based on the voice of the society/community/people/stakeholders. This is not as easy as it sounds. We have to re-learn to listen to the people. What are they talking about? What are the values behind? What are the grown values of a community and – very important – what are their future values? – To get able to listen to communities the right questions have to be pronounced.

Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility; Social Innovation; United Nations Industrial Development Organization; Weather Report; International Corporate Social Responsibility (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-36540-9_21

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