Doctoral Dissertation Research in DRMS: Where Does Innovation Come From? Exploring the Dynamic Processes of Organizing and Managing Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation

DRMS 博士论文研究：创新从何而来？

• 批准号: 1730079
• 负责人: Michelle Shumate
• 金额: $ 2.84万
• 依托单位: Northwestern University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-05-15 至 2019-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1730079&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; DRMS; Where

The past several decades have witnessed a significant rise in social entrepreneurship (SE) activities aimed at solving complex social problems like poverty and educational inequality. This Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRIG) will use large-scale datasets to systematically summarize the current state of SE in the United States and identify mechanisms underlying innovative social ventures. Best practices identified in the research will offer tangible solutions to help practitioners make marked improvement in creating scalable and sustainable social innovations. The research will also identify the role public policy may play in encouraging social ventures to adopt appropriate business models, employ information and communication technologies (ICTs), and engage in collaboration networks.The research will involve surveying 3,000 social ventures across the United States to examine how market logics and community logics enable or constrain the type, degree, and quality of social innovations created by social ventures. Market logics suggest that social ventures may act like for-profit businesses and compete in capital markets to earn profits. At the same time, social ventures may also follow community logics by adopting the key principles of nonprofit organizing. The data will also be used to understand how market logics and community logics influence social ventures' use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) and inter-organizational networks to create social innovations.

在过去的几十年中，社会企业家精神（SE）的活动旨在解决旨在解决贫困和教育不平等等复杂社会问题的活动。该博士学位论文研究改进赠款（DDRIG）将使用大规模数据集系统地总结美国的当前状态，并确定创新社会企业的基础机制。研究中确定的最佳实践将提供切实的解决方案，以帮助从业者在创造可扩展和可持续的社会创新方面得到明显的改进。该研究还将确定公共政策在鼓励社会企业采用适当的商业模式，采用信息和通信技术（ICT）并参与协作网络方面所起的作用。该研究将涉及调查整个美国的3,000个社交企业，以研究市场逻辑和社区逻辑如何启用或限制社会创新的类型，程度和质量。市场逻辑表明，社会企业可能像营利性企业一样行事，并在资本市场竞争以赚取利润。同时，社会企业还可以通过采用非营利组织组织的关键原则来遵循社区逻辑。这些数据还将用于了解市场逻辑和社区逻辑如何影响社会企业对信息和通信技术（ICT）和组织间网络的使用来创造社会创新。