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Social Enterprise and Social Innovation: A Look Beyond Corporate Social Responsibility

In: Social Enterprise - Context-Dependent Dynamics In A Global Perspective

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  • Paolo Popoli

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After providing a preliminary conceptual framework for social entrepreneurship, social enterprise, and social innovation in light of the prevailing economic literature, this chapter aims to investigate the links and differences between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and corporate social innovation (CSI). In particular, it is examined how and why the paradigm of social innovation represents a business opportunity by overcoming CSR's traditional logic of "giving," thereby allowing social value creation to go hand in hand with economic value creation. The theme is discussed first at a general level for each type of enterprise and subsequently with particular reference to the global firm, with regard to which considerations are developed as to the most suitable approach to CSI in light of the worldwide spread of values and principles for conducting business, and of the global importance of social and environmental problems. In terms of method, the chapter is developed conceptually on the basis of the prevailing international literature and of secondary data.

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  • Paolo Popoli, 2016. "Social Enterprise and Social Innovation: A Look Beyond Corporate Social Responsibility," Chapters, in: Rosario Laratta (ed.), Social Enterprise - Context-Dependent Dynamics In A Global Perspective, IntechOpen.
  • Handle: RePEc:ito:pchaps:101506
    DOI: 10.5772/62980
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    Keywords

    social entrepreneurship; social enterprise; social innovation; corporate social responsibility; corporate social innovation;
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    JEL classification:

    • L31 - Industrial Organization - - Nonprofit Organizations and Public Enterprise - - - Nonprofit Institutions; NGOs; Social Entrepreneurship

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