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

在过去的几十年里，旨在解决贫困和教育不平等等复杂社会问题的社会创业活动(SE)显著增加。这篇博士论文研究改进基金(DDRIG)将使用大规模的数据集，系统地总结美国SE的现状，并确定创新社会企业背后的机制。研究中确定的最佳实践将提供切实的解决方案，帮助实践者在创造可扩展和可持续的社会创新方面取得显着改进。这项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、使用信息和通信技术(ICT)以及参与协作网络方面可能发挥的作用。该研究将涉及对全美3000家社会企业进行调查，以检验市场逻辑和社区逻辑如何启用或限制社会企业创造的社会创新的类型、程度和质量。市场逻辑表明，社会企业可能会像营利性企业一样，在资本市场上竞争以赚取利润。同时，社会企业也可以遵循社区逻辑，采用非营利性组织的关键原则。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利用信息和通信技术(信通技术)和组织间网络创造社会创新。

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.