- Title
- Building theories in-practice on Social innovation in disability nonprofit organizations
- Creator
- Taylor, Rachel; Torugsa, Nuttaneeya
- Date
- 2020
- Type
- Text; Book chapter
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/174341
- Identifier
- vital:14876
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-1108-4.ch009
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781799811107, 9781799811091
- Abstract
- This chapter discusses the key theoretical and empirical steps undertaken throughout the authors’ previous-but-related mixed methods studies on social innovation in nonprofit organizations (NPOs) in the Australian disability sector with the aim of using the key findings of these studies to develop ‘theories-in-practice’ in disability NPOs. In this chapter, the authors summarize the associated theory-building processes deployed to explain how disability NPOs develop and implement social innovations and the societal ‘system-level’ impacts of such innovations. These theory-building processes involve two broad phases, and the culmination of these phases (grounded in the abductive logics of inquiry, complexity theorizing, and set-theoretic methods) leads to the development of several ‘theories-to-practice’ that not only convey the interactivity of contextual causal mechanisms leading to social innovation by NPOs, but also outline change-oriented solutions for managers who are working to address complex social challenges.
- Publisher
- IGI Global
- Relation
- Leadership styles, innovation, and social entrepreneurship in the era of digitalization 9 p. 212-250
- Rights
- Metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Rights
- Copyright @ 2020 by IGI Global
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