The Social Innovation Lab: An Experiment in the Pedagogy of Institutional Work

Warren Nilsson (), Francois Bonnici () and Eliada Wosu Griffin-EL ()
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Warren Nilsson: University of Cape Town
Francois Bonnici: University of Cape Town
Eliada Wosu Griffin-EL: University of Cape Town

Chapter Chapter 11 in The Business of Social and Environmental Innovation, 2015, pp 201-212 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The Social Innovation Lab is a pedagogical experiment within the MBA programme of the University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business. Exploring social innovation through the lens of institutional work, the Lab asks participants, who have not formerly identified themselves as social change agents, to begin to think and act like system innovators. The Lab develops an action heuristic by drawing on research in the fields of institutional theory, positive organizational scholarship, critical pedagogy, network theory, and stakeholder engagement, among others. This heuristic focuses on shifting from a corrective action lens to a transformative action lens. Using this lens, Lab participants engage in real-world, real-time social innovation projects of their own devising.

Keywords: Social innovation; Institutional work; University of Cape Town; MBA students; Transformative action heuristic (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-04051-6_11

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