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Social Innovation in Refugee Support: Investigating Prerequisites Towards a Conceptual Framework

In: Technological Progress, Inequality and Entrepreneurship

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  • Phyllis McNally

    (Plymouth University)

  • Nikolaos Apostolopoulos

    (Plymouth University)

  • Haya Al-Dajani

    (Plymouth University)

Abstract

This paper investigates the required elements in the advancement of social innovation (SI) produced by entrepreneurial organisations. These efforts are to assist the establishment of a new conceptual framework including the voices of those, most vulnerable and ferociously impacted by not only local but also global crisis. Qualitative data by an organisation which educates social workers and refugees fuel the concept of social innovation by pointing to the interplay of structure and agency as well as social issues and impact on economy. Our existing knowledge on the role of social enterprises and refugee support through social innovative services are limited. Social innovation is closely linked to social entrepreneurship (SE) in practice and in literature. SE in context of refugee support is a concept currently gaining attention. Social innovation could be equally relevant in this regard. SI is a broad, versatile term, believed to hold a yet fully to be discovered potential. While SI is not a new revelation it is, however contested as a term and is yet to be fully understood, defined and diffused for it to be exploited at its maximum potential.

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  • Phyllis McNally & Nikolaos Apostolopoulos & Haya Al-Dajani, 2020. "Social Innovation in Refugee Support: Investigating Prerequisites Towards a Conceptual Framework," Studies on Entrepreneurship, Structural Change and Industrial Dynamics, in: Vanessa Ratten (ed.), Technological Progress, Inequality and Entrepreneurship, pages 123-138, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:seschp:978-3-030-26245-7_8
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-26245-7_8
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