Exploring the impact of design thinking on social enterprise mission-aligned innovation
通过对英国苏格兰四家社会企业的实证研究，发现设计思维通过促进利益相关者参与、生成组织知识和挑战传统权力动态，帮助社会企业在不损害社会使命的前提下实现创新。
Despite the growing academic and policy interest in social enterprises, existing debates fail to answer how these organizations innovate without compromising their social mission. In particular, the mechanisms that assist social enterprises to innovate in line with their mission have been overlooked in the social enterprise literature. Through an empirical study of four social enterprises in Scotland, UK, we focus on Design Thinking and show that, through stimulating the engagement of diverse stakeholders, generating organizational knowledge and challenging traditional power dynamics, Design Thinking assists social enterprises in inducing mission-aligned innovation. Through the lens of Intellectual Capital theory, our article shows the applicability of Design Thinking in the field of social entrepreneurship, and draws implications for policy and practice.