Overview
Introduces a conceptual framework to define, understand and study socio-tech innovation and entrepreneurship
Provides case studies about social ventures that use technology as a core or enabling factor to solve social and environmental problems with the benefits accruing to the larger society
Presents disruptive socio-tech organizing models that are different from those of traditional tech ventures and/or traditional nonprofits
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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A key premise of this book is to understand what qualifies as a “socio-tech venture” and, perhaps more importantly, what does not qualify! While exuberance to embrace all things “social” can be exciting and productive, emphasizing “all things social” is not and should not be the same as “accepting as social all things.” Scillitoe, Poonamalle and Joy approach that distinction with an important, critical eye, such as where – as the book describes it – “social impact is a byproduct at best” (Introduction). This book’s efforts are a welcome and useful bridge between theory and practice by exploring experiences of a discrete and diverse collection of companies and their principals. The technology thread provides a convenient way of more easily finding similarities and differences with regard to early points of decision and the choices made. That socio-technology thread should not discourage a more general reader from delving deeply and extrapolating how the lessons and their contexts can apply more broadly, especially to identifying those situations and approaches that result in what I call “differentiated social good.”
-John Tyler, General Counsel, Secretary, and Chief Ethics Officer, Kauffman Foundation
This is an important book in the social entrepreneurship conversation, emphasizing the role of technology as an addition to the usual discussions about entrepreneurial character, innovation and social incentives. We are drawn into engaging cases – many in India and Africa, but also in Mexico and the USA – where technological resources are servants in addressing social challenges in a way that is not only impressive but can inspire new and creative responses to human need. A potential textbook, but also a contribution to scholarly conversation about social entrepreneurship and social enterprise
-Ana Maria Peredo, Professor Political Ecology, Former Director Research Centre for Co-operative and Community -Based Economies. University of Victoria, Canada
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Joanne Scillitoe is the inaugural Paul Jennings Chair in Entrepreneurship and a Professor of Management at California State, Northridge, USA.
Simy Joy is a Research Fellow at the Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode, India.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Socio-Tech Innovation
Book Subtitle: Harnessing Technology for Social Good
Editors: Latha Poonamallee, Joanne Scillitoe, Simy Joy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39554-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG, part of Springer Nature 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-39553-7Published: 26 April 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-39556-8Published: 26 April 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-39554-4Published: 25 April 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVII, 315
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 15 illustrations in colour