Technology and Innovation for Creating Social Change: Concepts and Theories

Archana Singh () and Satyajit Majumdar
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Archana Singh: Tata Institute of Social Sciences
Satyajit Majumdar: Tata Institute of Social Sciences

Chapter Chapter 7 in Technology and Innovation for Social Change, 2015, pp 109-123 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Technology and innovation play significant role in economic growth. However, for inclusive growth, growth in social sector is critical. Entrepreneurs and social entrepreneurs have experimented a lot to combine technology and innovation to create the desired social change. Though, scholarly literature has considered entrepreneurs as change agents, and also emphasized the importance of innovation for entrepreneurial process, but little attention has been paid to find out the role that technology and innovation play in social change process or to explain the process of deployment of technology or application of innovation in creating social change. Drawing on a variety of literature, personal observations and experiences of the authors, the chapter presents a conceptual framework on the process of creating social change. By theorizing the phenomena, this chapter is a step towards theory building. Incorporating Bandura’s ‘Social Cognitive Theory’ and Davis’ ‘Technology Acceptance Model (TAM)’, the framework also gives due importance to the role of entrepreneurs in fostering social change. It explains two-way relationship between technology and innovation and presents five different ways of combining technology and innovation for creating social change. Finally, it offers a set of propositions and suggests validation with in-depth case studies for further advancement of the theory.

Keywords: Theory building; Inclusive growth; Technological innovation; Social innovation; Product innovation; Process innovation; Social learning; Self-efficacy; Technology acceptance model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1007/978-81-322-2071-8_7

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