Institutional embeddedness and the scaling-up of collaboration and social innovation: the case of a Hong Kong-based international NGO
以一家香港国际非政府组织为例，研究制度嵌入性如何促进组织间合作和社会创新的规模化，对理解非政府组织发展和社会创新扩散有参考价值。
This paper utilises the case of an international NGO (INGO) in Hong Kong to explore how institutional embeddedness may facilitate the scaling-up of collaboration and social innovation. Adapting Hess’s (2004) framework, we contend that the scaling-up of collaboration among organisations is affected by the societal, network and territorial embeddedness of the organisational actors. These three forms of embeddedness dynamically affect each other through the agency of the actors. The concept of embeddedness also usefully illustrates how networks and collaboration can scale up beyond the local level, thus providing the conditions for the scaling-up of social innovation.