Blogs
Centre for Social Innovation, Toronto
Global Agenda Council on Social Innovation
OECD – LEED Programme (Local Economic and Employment Development) – LEED Forum on Social Innovations.
Social Innovation + Change Initiative, Harvard Kennedy School
Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, Said Business School, Oxford
Social Innovation eXchange (SIX)
Social Innovation Fund – A key White House initiative and program of the Corporation for National and Community Service
Social Innovation, Brown University
The Center for Social Innovation, Stanford Graduate School of Business
The Centre for Social Innovation, Toronto
The Social Enterprise Initiative at HBS
The Social Innovation Centre, INSEAD
The Young Foundation: disruptive social innovation
Verb – operates massive entrepreneurship competitions that accelerate early-stage social entrepreneurs around the world by connecting them to the money and resources they need to grow.
Influential social innovation papers in the major management journals
Ashforth, B.E. and Reingen, P.H. (2014) “Functions of dysfunction: managing the dynamics of an organizational duality in a natural food cooperative”, Administrative Science Quarterly, 59: 474-516 (DOI:10.1177/0001839214537811)
Battilana, J. and Dorado, S. (2010) “Building sustainable hybrid organizations: the case of commercial microfinance organizations.” Academy of Management Journal, 53(6): 1419-1440
Besharov, M.L. (2014) “The relational ecology of identification: How organizational identification emerges when individuals hold divergent values.” Academy of Management Journal (DOI:10.5465/amj.2011.0761)
Hwang, H. and Powell, W. (2009) “The rationalization of charity: the influences of professionalism in the nonprofit sector.” Administrative Science Quarterly, 54(2): 268-98
Kistruck, G. and Smith, B. (2013) “Mitigating principal-agent problems in Base-of-the-Pyramid markets: an identity spillover perspective.” Academy of Management Journal, 56: 659-682 (DOI:10.5465/amj.2011.0336)
Mair J., Martí I., and Ventresca M. (2012) “Building inclusive markets in rural Bangladesh: how intermediaries work institutional voids.” Academy of Management Journal, 55(4): 819-850.
Miller, T.I., Grimes, M.G., Mcmullen, J.S. and Vogus, T.I. (2012) “Venturing for others with heart and head: how compassion encourages social entrepreneurship.” Academy of Management Review, 37(4): 616-640
Nicholls, A. (2009) “We do good things don’t we? blended value accounting in social entrepreneurship.” Accounting, Organizations and Society, 34(6-7): 755-769
Pache, A.C. and Santos, F. (2013) “Inside the hybrid organization: selective coupling as a response to competing institutional logics.” Academy of Management Journal, 56(4): 972-1001 (DOI:10.5465/amj.2011.0405)
Tracey, P., Phillips, N. and Jarvis, O. (2011) “Bridging institutional entrepreneurship and the creation of new organizational forms: a multilevel model.” Organization Science, 22(1): 60-80 (DOI: 10.1287/orsc.1090.0522)
Journals
Business and Society Journal (SAGE)
International Journal of Innovation and Sustainable Development
Practitioner: Noa Gafni, Fellow of Social Innovation (1.7 MB)
Practitioner: Rosie Horton, Charityworks (1.2 MB)
Practitioners: Emerson Csorba and Eric Termuende, Gen Y (454 KB)
Publications from the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship (in partnership with the World Economic Forum)
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