Drawing on your knowledge of social innovation and organizational form, compare and contrast two organizational forms (e.g association and social movement; company limited by guarantee and coop; hybrid and some ‘pure’ form. Critically evaluate them with regard to their enabling or constraining impact on social innovation. Draw liberally on the relevant literature and illustrate with examples. Introduction Our societies are facing extraordinary challenges: increasing inequality, rising poverty rates, unstable economies, climate change and a raft of other issues. Change is happening at an alarming speed and the social and environmental need is mounting to a petrifying crescendo (Innovation 2013). According to Mulgan (2006) the pace of social innovation is going to accelerate at an abnormal rate in the coming century. From my study in this course I have come to realise that a social innovation is a bold, new or improved solution, that fulfills an unmet need, changes current behaviors, co-creates value alongside community values and drivers for implementation and growth, and cuts across sectors. Social innovation may be carried out by individuals and business’s under a wide array of forms. For the purpose of this essay, I have chosen to compare and contrast two different organisational forms, Hybrids and cooperatives and evaluate their enabling and constraining impact on social innovation using well structured examples. Hybrid organizations make up the bulk of the public sphere in many Western European countries (kickert, 2001). We must be aware of a number of features that salamon laid out to look at the criterial for effective impact analysis too. Salamon suggests that impact analysis must be systematic, theory based, more than a c... ... middle of paper ... ... “The Nonprofit Sector: For What and for Whom?” Working Papers of the Johns Hopkins Comparative Nonprofit Sector Project, no. 37. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Center for Civil Society Studies, 2000 Sang-Il Han, Moo-Kwon Chung* and Mun-su Park (2013). “Local stakeholder involvement and social innovation in Korean co-operatives.” Community Development Journal. Advance Access published July 3, 2013, 1-17. Seelos, Christian and Johanna Mair (2012). “What Determines the Capacity for Continuous Innovation in Social Sector Organizations?” Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society Rathgeb Smith, S (2010). “Hybridization and Nonprofit Organizations: The Governance Challenge.” Policy and Society, 29, 219–229. What is a hybrid? Things im learning along the way April 2013 Accessed: http://commonspace.wordpress.com/2009/04/23/what-is-a-hybrid-organization/
The nation has approximately 1 million nonprofit entities of various sorts and hospitals have long been a traditional service provider in the nonprofit sector (Williams & Torrens, page 185). Nonprofit entities are generally exempt from most taxes at the federal, state, and local levels, including income and property taxes (Williams & Torrens, page 185). These facilities are governed by a community-based board that has ultimate authority for running these entities. Sponsorship for a nonprofit can come from various organizations, unlike other hospitals with traditional religious sponsorship (Williams & Torrens, page 185). A small percentage of the nation’s hospitals are operated by for-profit businesses (Williams & Torrens, page 186).
Throughout this course my paradigms of what a nonprofit organization have been challenged as we have considered the major aspects and leadership challenges of these organizations. Having worked with for profit and nonprofit organizations in the past I was quite confident that I had a clear understanding of the distinctions between the two. I had worked in organizations that regularly used volunteers to accomplish their mission and felt that the management of these processes were simplistic. Despite these misconceptions, I found that I was able to learn a tremendous amount through our reading, peer interactions, group projects and equally important, my volunteer service as part of this course.
Nonprofit Organizations (NPOs) in New Orleans Following Hurricane Katrina. Administration In Social Work, 36(4), 359-389. doi:10.1080/03643107.2011.604401
Innovation is an important sociological concept because it applied to the development and the expansion of the human culture around the world through discoveries or inventions. Furthermore, innovations can vary in the degree to which they perceive expenses and benefits associated with prevailing ideas and practices.
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Nonprofits serve multiple roles in improving the quality of life (The Philadelphia Foundation)They are created and put in certain communities for different reasons pertaining to each situation and enhance the environment in that way. Think about it, when you drive through a community with lots of homeless people, what do you automatically think? It’s poor community, right? Well I do, and you never want someone to think poorly of the place you liv...
The proposed paper is an extension of a term paper written towards incorporation in my final Master’s thesis. In the Creating a Research Space Model or CARS model (Swales, 1990) the project can currently be placed in the “Establishing a Niche” stage. The gist of this project lies in analyzing and developing framework for “transparent communication” between social enterprises and their partner organization to maximize impact of their project’s “civic calling”. The project will be a qualitative ethnographical enquiry for a short six-month project with a social enterprise to study all aspects of interaction with its partner organization. The aim of the project is to delve into the aspect of communication that social enterprise leaders emulate
Defining ”innovation”could be rather a difficult task as it is a “multi-faceted phenomenon”, and a widely u...
In the present market economy, social innovation should not replace Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) but should enhance it. Some scholars have shown that whereas innovation has been an integral part of a company’s survival it was not part of CSR (Carroll and Shabana, 2010). In the past, CSR was applied in areas of citizenship duties and operation licences; however, this is not sufficient in the modern complex business environment (Googins, 2013).
... policy are made as the fragment of association strategy, in demand to assess the innovation-related concerns by coupling them with the companies (Thesource 2014; Mindtools.com 2014). The modernization issues from the argument of organizational perceptions have been illuminated recently. For example, one of the best methods to create reasonable advantages is to erect a company, which is based on constant learning and improvement. Many aspects of a company, which incorporates even the industrialized events, are also manipulated by structural learning (Mindtools.com 2014).
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This definition has extended the power of the theory to explain different types of disruptive innovations across a wide range of industries (Schmidt and Druehl, 2008).
The research design therefore included workshops to explore and test what social enterprise managers, researchers, and relevant policy makers meant by the term 'social enterprise'. This was the resulting definition: