Deconstructing Social Entrepreneurship and its Role in Society

Emilio Costales () and Anica Zeyen ()
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Emilio Costales: Royal Holloway, University of London
Anica Zeyen: Royal Holloway, University of London

Chapter Chapter 5 in Social Entrepreneurship and Grand Challenges, 2022, pp 79-98 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract A Luhmannian view of systemssystems helps us understand grand challengesgrand challenges differently. Seen through LuhmannLuhmann, Niklas’s sociological perspective, we can argue that wicked problemswicked problems arise due to the challenges of communicationcommunication across social subsystemssubsystems. Here, humans play a central role as they can enable structural couplingcoupling between subsystems, thereby alerting subsystems to such things as, for example, the need to cost for carbon emissions in pay/no pay codifications. Social entrepreneurship at its very core aims to disrupt the status quo by interrupting existing institutionsinstitutions or create institutions where voids existed. To dive deeper into this line of argument, this chapter makes use of ordonomics—an ethics approach rooted, in parts, in institutional theory which also incorporates Luhmannian thinking to deconstruct social entrepreneurshipsocial entrepreneurship as a multi-layered process of disruptiondisruption at society’s microsocietal levelsmicro, mesosocietal levelsmeso, and macrosocietal levelsmacro levels.

Keywords: Social innovation; Social innovation modelsocial innovation model; Ordonomics; Social change; Social value; Institutionsinstitutions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-07450-9_5

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