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Ashoka U Innovation Award Winner: ALTIS MBA in Social Entrepreneurship (Kenya)
Partnership SEBRAE - ALTIS
Monday, october 3 rd 2011
Università Cattolica
Milan, Largo Gemelli 1
Nairobi, July 27th
Tangaza College
They say that bricks and mortar are the best investment ...
Authors
Benedetto Cannatelli & Brett Smith (Miami University)
Abstract
This paper presents a theoretical model connecting three strategies for spreading social innovation - branching, affiliation and dissemination - to an organization's confidence in achieving expected social impact and revealing new potential social value. To this aim, we leverage the open innovation paradigm as a theoretical lens to explain how the adoption of porous organizational boundaries affects the likelihood and magnitude of social value created through scaling. Our model predicts that a strong relationship exists between the adoption of an open organizational structure and the likelihood to reveal potential social value. In addition, the similarity of the context where the social innovation will be scaled moderates this relation. Our paper contributes to the growth of knowledge in the field of social entrepreneurship by suggesting new directions for further inquiry and to the extention of the explanatory power of the open innovation paradigm in the social sector.
