Navigating the ‘meaningless’ of social innovation: perspectives of social care practitioners in Scotland
通过对苏格兰社会企业和社会护理领域19位利益相关者的访谈，发现欧盟对社会创新的定义几乎可以涵盖一切，虽有助于组织向资助方展示创新性，但忽视了权力维度，缺乏变革潜力。
Social innovation is an umbrella concept that allows space for a diverse range of perspectives to co-exist. In this paper, we explore how practitioners negotiate this complexity. Conducting 19 interviews with stakeholders involved in social enterprise and social care in Scotland, we show that almost anything can be conceived of as a social innovation as defined by the European Union. The EU definition can be a useful tool for organizations to demonstrate to funders how and why they are socially innovative. However, in failing to interrogate the power dimension of social innovation, the EU definition neglects any transformative potential.