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New Frontiers in Social Innovation Research, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. Alex Nicholls (Professor of Social Entrepreneurship), Julie Simon (Research Programme Lead), Madeleine Gabriel (Principal Researcher)

This book is open access under a CC BY license. Interest in social innovation continues to rise, from governments setting up social innovation ‘labs’ to large corporations developing social innovation strategies. Yet theory lags behind practice, and this hampers our ability to understand social innovation and make the most of its potential. This collection brings together work by leading social innovation researchers globally, exploring the practice and process of researching social innovation, its nature and effects. Combining theoretical chapters and empirical studies, it shows how social innovation is blurring traditional boundaries between the market, the state and civil society, thereby developing new forms of services, relationships and collaborations. It takes a critical perspective, analyzing potential downsides of social innovation that often remain unexplored or are glossed over, yet concludes with a powerful vision of the potential for social innovation to transform society. It aims to be a valuable resource for students and researchers, as well as policymakers and others supporting and leading social innovation.

Social Innovation as Political Transformation: Thoughts for a Better World, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2020. Autores: Pieter Van den Broeck, Abid Mehmood, Angeliki Paidakaki, Constanza Parra (Organizadores)

This book is an introduction to the works of a collective of academics on social innovation and socio-political transformation. It offers a critique of the dominance of market-based logics and extractivism in the age of neoliberalism. Calling for systemic change, the authors invite the reader to engage in the analysis and practice of socially innovative initiatives and, by doing so, contribute to the co-construction of a sustainable, solidarity-based and regenerative society.

This book will not only be an inspiration for many academics and researchers broadly interested in social innovation, but also for social movements and their protagonists challenging the dominance of the status quo. In addition, it will appeal to policymakers and politicians who want to appreciate contemporary ways of thinking and gain inspiration on how to better meet the needs of the communities they serve.

Solidariedade e organizações: pensar uma outra gestão: Edufba, 2020. Genauto Carvalho de França Filho, Philippe Eynaud

This book is based on a critical diagnosis of the dual unsustainability that has characterised the development dynamics of contemporary societies: the environmental crisis and the increase in inequality. These conditions have revealed a deficit of solidarity both in the relationship between human beings and nature, and in the relationship between people and each other. This is how the book bases its reflection on an important paradox regarding the place of solidarity in today’s societies: never before has there been such a need to strengthen it, both at national and international level, and reflection on it has never been so eluded, so unknown, not to mention so discredited. After highlighting how solidarity has been made invisible in the construction of knowledge about organisations and management, the book explores the emergence of innovative organisational practices aimed at responding to the dilemmas of this double unsustainability. These are the challenges and potential contained in another economy that invites us to reflect on another form of management.

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Encyclopedia of social innovation, Elgar, 2023. Edited by Jürgen Howaldt, Director and Christoph Kaletka, Deputy Director, Social Research Centre Dortmund, TU Dortmund University, Germany with theassistance of Marthe Zirngiebl, Daniel Krüger and Karina Maldonado‑Mariscal

This Encyclopedia presents an interdisciplinary and comprehensive overview of the field of social innovation, providing an insightful view into potential future developments both practically and theoretically.

With entries authored by prominent international scholars, the Encyclopedia outlines the theoretical foundations, concepts, types, processes and measurement of social innovation. Entries cover a variety of key themes including social innovation ecosystems, co-creation, new technologies and methods, education, governance and policies.

The Encyclopedia of Social Innovation will serve as a significant reference point for both scholars and students of social entrepreneurship, sociology and management. It will also be beneficial for all those seeking to clarify various problem-solving routes in the face of contemporary societal challenges.

Key Features:

  • 77 accessible and fully-referenced entries

  • An interdisciplinary scope providing readers with a sound overview of social innovation in different research areas

  • Exploration of the societal, political, business and entrepreneurial ramifications of social innovation

  • Examination of the challenges caused by modern phenomena such as rapid population growth and how these challenges have affected new social demands.

Co-Creation for Sustainability, Esmerald Publishing, 2022. Ansell, C., Sørensen, E. and Torfing, J. (2022), Emerald Publishinghttps://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80043-798-220220016

This book is written with a specific audience in mind: change makers around the world who take upon themselves the mission of mobilizing citizens and stakeholders to cocreate innovative SDG solutions. The book is intended to be read and utilized as aguide book stimulating critical reflections on how to design and use cocreation as a lever for address challenges of global sustainability.

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Public Governance as Co-creation: A Strategy for Revitalizing the Public Sector and Rejuvenating Democracy, Cambridge Studies in Comparative Public Policy, 2023. Ansell, C & Torfing, J.

We need new governance solutions to help us improve public policies and services, solve complex societal problems, strengthen social communities and reinvigorate democracy. By changing how government engages with citizens and stakeholders, co-creation provides an attractive and feasible approach to governance that goes beyond the triptych of public bureaucracy, private markets and self-organized communities. Inspired by the successful use of co-creation for product and service design, this book outlines a broad vision of co-creation as a strategy of public governance. Through the construction of platforms and arenas to facilitate co-creation, this strategy can empower local communities, enhance broad-based participation, mobilize societal resources and spur public innovation while building ownership for bold solutions to pressing problems and challenges. The book details how to use co-creation to achieve goals. This exciting and innovative study combines theoretical argument with illustrative empirical examples, visionary thinking and practical recommendations.

The Power of Morality in Movements. Civic engagement in climate justice, human rights, and democracy, Springer, 2023. Editores: Anders Sevelsted & Jonas Toubøl

Explores the role of morality in social movements. Discusses timely topics such as movements focusing on refugee solidarity, male privilege. Provides methodologically and theoretically diverse contributions from multiple social science disciplines. This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access.

Civil Society: Concepts, Challenges, Contexts Essays in Honor of Helmut K. Anheier, Springer 2022. Organizadores: Michael Hoelscher, Regina A. List, Alexander Ruser, Stefan Toepler

This volume is a collection of original essays prepared by colleagues, collaborators, and former students on the occasion of Helmut K. Anheier’s 65th birthday and retirement from the University of Heidelberg. An internationally recognized pioneer of nonprofit and civil society studies, Anheier focused his work on providing clarity around (1) civil society, local and global, observing its origins and trajectory and developing theories to explain it; (2) the nonprofit sector and institutions within and extending from it, including nonprofit organizations, philanthropy and social investment; and (3) culture as it relates to democracy and back to civil society. The essays in this volume refer to these concepts and position them in the context of developments over the last two to three decades.

The volume is arranged in three sections. The first section comprises essays that elucidate concepts and probe theories in the field. The second section presents chapters discussing current global challenges and trends in the focal areas. The third and final section then comprises country and regional case studies illustrating important aspects of the global challenges or theoretical issues of the two preceding sections.

A fascinating and up-to-date overview of key issues and trends in civil society and nonprofit research by an international collection of eminent scholars in these fields, this book will be attractive to civil society and nonprofit sector researchers as well as a broader academic community of political scientists, sociologists, economists, and cultural experts.

Dinâmicas do terceiro setor no Brasil: trajetórias de criação e fechamento de organizações da sociedade civil de 1901 a 2020. Autoras: Janine Mello e Ana Camila Ribeiro Pereira

The aim of this study was to systematise and present data on the creation and closure of Brazilian civil society organisations (CSOs) in the period 1901-2020, based on the National Register of Legal Entities (CNPJ) made available by the Brazilian Internal Revenue Service (SRFB). The results are an unprecedented survey of more than 1 million organisations created in the last 120 years in the country and distributed throughout the country.

A modern guide to the multiple streams framework, Elgar, 2023. Authors: Nikolaos Zahariadis, Nicole Herweg, Reimut Zohlnöfer & Evangelia Petridou

Applying the Multiple Streams Framework (MSF) to a global range of case studies, this pioneering Modern Guide addresses how policymakers decide what issues to attend to and which choices to make or implement. In doing so it outlines that, far from being the exception, ambiguity and timing are integral parts of every comparative explanation of the policy process. Considering the MSF at the theoretical level, contributors assess the assumptions, structure and logic of the framework before examining the scope of reforms, multilevel influence and interaction, coupling as a process, and the motives of policy entrepreneurs. Using a diverse array of cases from around the world at sub-national, national, and international levels of governance, chapters apply the framework to such diverse topics as climate policy in Europe, soil pollution laws in China, pandemic management in Turkey and Bolsonaro’s gun liberalization agenda in Brazil. Ultimately, the Modern Guide demonstrates that public policy is a process replete with bias, language and symbols among interacting policy actors who generate conflicting messages in staged settings of political power. Situating the framework within broader debates of the policy process, this innovative Modern Guide will be vital to students and scholars of political science, public policy, and public administration and management. With empirical practical applications which advance the MSF, it will also be of use to policymakers globally.

The routledge handbook of environmental policy. Authors: Helge Jörgens, Christoph Knill, and Yves Steinebach

This Handbook provides a state-of-the-art review of research on environmental policy and governance. The Routledge Handbook of Environmental Policy has a strong focus on new problem structures – a perspective that emphasizes the preconditions and processes of environmental policymaking – and a comparative approach that covers all levels of local, national, and global policymaking. The volume examines the different conditions under which environmental policymaking takes place in different regions of the world and tracks the theoretical, conceptual, and empirical developments that have been made in recent years. It also highlights emerging areas where new and/or additional research and reflection are warranted. Divided into four key parts, the accessible structure and the nature of the contributions allow the reader to quickly find a concise expert review on topics that are most likely to arise in the course of conducting research or developing policy, and to obtain a broad, reliable survey of what is presently known about the subject. The resulting compendium is an essential resource for students, scholars, and policymakers working in this vital field.