The Elgar Companion to Social Innovation and the Sustainable Development Goals

Edited by David C. Littlewood, Irene Garnelo-Gomez, Laurel Steinfield and Giacomo Ciambotti

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Abstract: In this far-reaching Elgar Companion, leading scholars and practitioners survey the current state of knowledge, practice and policy on social innovation and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to provide guidance for future research in the area. Considering the SDGs individually, together and sustainable development as a whole, they explore relationships between social innovation, the SDGs and the biosphere, society and economy, across organizational settings.

Keywords: Social Innovation; Sustainable Development Goals (Sdgs); Social Entrepreneurship; Sustainable Development; Hybrid Organizations; Grand Challenges. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
ISBN: 9781035326037
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Introduction: social innovation and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

David C. Littlewood, Irene Garnelo-Gomez, Laurel Steinfield and Giacomo Ciambotti

Ch 2 Social innovation in climate finance

Abrar Chaudhury and Seoyoung Lee

Ch 3 Renewable energy as a social innovation

Zana Cranmer

Ch 4 Community-based circular practices and social innovation: evidence from Uganda

Vittorio Capitani, Marco Minciullo and Giacomo Ciambotti

Ch 5 Systems approaches to UN Sustainable Development Goals: managing paradox in agri-food through partnerships with sustainable business model organizations

Natalia Lumby, Julie Kellershohn and Lynda McDonald

Ch 6 Ending hunger requires local food: a case study of the Hunger Task Force Farm

Melissa G. Bublitz and Jonathan Hansen

Ch 7 Microfranchises for war victims and victimizers’ social and economic (re)integration

Andrés Barrios and Adriano Cano

Ch 8 Navigating the path to SDG3: unveiling the tensions within healthcare organizations

Maria Cristina Zaccone, Giacomo Ciambotti and Matteo Pedrini

Ch 9 Thriving through technology: social innovations in mental health

Jane Machin and Aušra Rūtelionė

Ch 10 Reaching SDG #3 – Good Health and Well-being: evidence from healthcare initiatives in South Africa

Constance Dumalanède

Ch 11 Social innovations in addressing menstrual poverty in Africa: the menstrual cup intervention for girls in rural Ghana

Kofi Kyeremateng Nyanteng and Christine Garde Denning

Ch 12 Gender paradoxes and social innovation in the context of refugee entrepreneurship

Farah Al Taji and Deema Refai

Ch 13 Harnessing synergies between sustainability, decent work, and the social solidarity economy: an introduction to the S-D-S toolkit

Jürgen Schwettmann, Mike Bull and Helen Wadham

Ch 14 Mobile money, M-Pesa, and the Sustainable Development Goals

Francesca Giliberto and Diane Holt

Ch 15 An evaluation of microfinance contribution to youth entrepreneurship and access to funding: a case of sub-Saharan Africa

Juliana Siwale and Ugbede Umoru

Ch 16 Social innovators as sponsors of institutional change: the case of intermediary organizations and SMEs in Pakistan's textile manufacturing sector

Raees Aslam, Aqueel Wahga and Richard Blundel

Ch 17 The inclusion of challenges associated with the SDGs agenda in the training of creative profiles

Paula Fernández Gago and Rodrigo Martínez Rodríguez

Ch 18 From beekeeping to habitat stewardship: teaching social innovation for biodiversity thinking in business schools

Rafael Ziegler, Nadia Ponce Morales and Mathieu Bouchard

Ch 19 Promoting social innovation for the Sustainable Development Goals: the role of higher education institutions in Africa

Annika Surmeier, David C. Littlewood, Addisu A. Lashitew, Gideon Nomdo, Bongi Bangeni, Kasturi Behari-Leak, Vanessa Ramanjam, Katusha de Villiers and Phyllis Awor

Ch 20 Measuring the impact of university-led social innovation: Sustainable Development Goal focused social impact within Higher Education Institutions (HEIs)

Richard Hazenberg, Claire Paterson-Young and Michael Maher

Ch 21 Utilizing digital technology in social innovation education: the power of inspirational videos for transformative learning

Amal Ahmadi

Ch 22 A social innovation approach to SDGs: role of small and local third sector organizations

Nadeen Purna and Lauren Tuckerman

Ch 23 The role and importance of empathy in understanding stakeholder interests and fostering multi-dimensional social innovations aligned with the UN SDGs

Furkan A. Gur

Ch 24 Designing for equity and justice: integrating intersectionality theory into social innovation processes

Azure Cook and Laurel Steinfield

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