Challenge Social Innovation Potentials for Business, Social Entrepreneurship, Welfare and Civil Society /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Franz, Hans-Werner (Editor), Hochgerner, Josef (Editor), Howaldt, Jürgen (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Subjects: Business.; Entrepreneurship.; Management.; Industrial management.; Business ethics.; Social policy.; Sociology.; Business and Management.; Business Ethics.; Social Policy.; Innovation/Technology Management.; Sociology, general.

In recent years, social innovation has experienced a steep career. Numerous national governments and large organisations like the OECD, the European Commission and UNESCO have adopted the term. Social innovation basically means that people adopt new social practices in order to meet social needs in...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. On Social Innovation Theory
• 3. Social Innovation in the Service Sector
• 4. Social Innovation and Welfare
• 5. Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship
• 6. Social Innovation at the workplace
• 7. Social Innovation, Open Innovation and Social Media
• 8. Measuring Social Innovation
• 9. Social Innovation and the Social Sciences. .