Social economy organizations as social innovation intermediaries: Their contribution… and limitations

Les organisations de l'ESS comme intermédiaires de l'innovation sociale au sein des territoires: leurs apports et... leurs limites

Paul Muller () and Corinne Tanguy ()
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Paul Muller: BETA - Bureau d'Économie Théorique et Appliquée - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique - UNISTRA - Université de Strasbourg - UL - Université de Lorraine - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Corinne Tanguy: CESAER - Centre d'Economie et de Sociologie Rurales Appliquées à l'Agriculture et aux Espaces Ruraux - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique - AgroSup Dijon - Institut National Supérieur des Sciences Agronomiques, de l'Alimentation et de l'Environnement

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Abstract: Social economy organizations are commonly considered as key actors of social innovation at the local level not only because they generate it, but because they act as intermediaries coordinating different categories of stakeholders. This paper contributes to the literature on innovation intermediaries by analyzing the contribution and the limitations of social economy organizations to this task. We apply this theoretical framework to a study appraising the role of a wine coop for promoting a social innovation related to estate transmission in Burgundy's Mâconnais vineyard. We show that the coop fulfils its intermediation task thanks to its central position in the local relational network and by supporting proximity development among stakeholders. However, it faces limitations in its action that are consecutive to strategic choices as well as to evolutions in its local environment. Those limitations highlight the need for a coordinated intermediation effort with other, public, institutions.

Keywords: Social Networks; Wine Economics; Rural Estate Transmission; Social Innovation; Innovation Intermediary; Intermédiaire d'innovation; Innovation sociale; Réseaux Sociaux; Economie du vin; Transmission-reprise (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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Published in Innovations - Revue d’économie et de management de l'innovation, 2019, 1 (58), pp.189-217. ⟨10.3917/inno.058.0189⟩

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DOI: 10.3917/inno.058.0189

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