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Intellectual evolution of social innovation: A bibliometric analysis and avenues for future research trends

Intellectual evolution of social innovation: A bibliometric analysis and avenues for future research trends
Intellectual evolution of social innovation: A bibliometric analysis and avenues for future research trends
Despite the fact that the concept of social innovation is extensively employed by scholars and practitioners, yet the conceptualisation and the research structure remained fragmented and scattered, because no rigorous attempt has been made to understand the core concept of social innovation. The notion of social innovation is multi-faceted and multi-disciplinary fluctuating from public-policy to environmental sustainability; which makes an investigation of the concept essential for business-to-business practitioners and scholars. By processing 370 publications from a sample of 125 journals and books with a total of 2941 citations, the authors unpack/unfold the intellectual foundation of social innovation in business and management domains by performing four bibliometric analyses and they evaluate the research domain qualitatively (1970–2019). By using co-citation, network visualisation through co-occurrence data, multi-dimensional scaling, and hierarchical cluster analysis, this research sheds light to the intellectual structure of social innovation including social value, economic value, societal impact, and bifocal innovations. This research reveals the key research clusters embodied by social innovation foundation. The present study identifies four important components for the future avenues of social innovation (i.e. opportunity, innovation practice, opportunity exploiter, value), and proposes a potential research framework to the researchers and practitioners, hoping to provide insights on social innovation.
Bibliometrics, Intellectual structure, Knowledge development, Social innovation
0019-8501
1-20
Foroudi, Pantea
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Akarsu, Tugra
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Marvi, Reza
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Balakrishnan, Janarthanan
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Marvi, Reza
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Balakrishnan, Janarthanan
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Foroudi, Pantea, Akarsu, Tugra, Marvi, Reza and Balakrishnan, Janarthanan (2020) Intellectual evolution of social innovation: A bibliometric analysis and avenues for future research trends. Industrial Marketing Management, 0, 1-20. (doi:10.1016/j.indmarman.2020.03.026).

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Despite the fact that the concept of social innovation is extensively employed by scholars and practitioners, yet the conceptualisation and the research structure remained fragmented and scattered, because no rigorous attempt has been made to understand the core concept of social innovation. The notion of social innovation is multi-faceted and multi-disciplinary fluctuating from public-policy to environmental sustainability; which makes an investigation of the concept essential for business-to-business practitioners and scholars. By processing 370 publications from a sample of 125 journals and books with a total of 2941 citations, the authors unpack/unfold the intellectual foundation of social innovation in business and management domains by performing four bibliometric analyses and they evaluate the research domain qualitatively (1970–2019). By using co-citation, network visualisation through co-occurrence data, multi-dimensional scaling, and hierarchical cluster analysis, this research sheds light to the intellectual structure of social innovation including social value, economic value, societal impact, and bifocal innovations. This research reveals the key research clusters embodied by social innovation foundation. The present study identifies four important components for the future avenues of social innovation (i.e. opportunity, innovation practice, opportunity exploiter, value), and proposes a potential research framework to the researchers and practitioners, hoping to provide insights on social innovation.

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Accepted/In Press date: 29 March 2020
e-pub ahead of print date: 7 April 2020
Keywords: Bibliometrics, Intellectual structure, Knowledge development, Social innovation

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Local EPrints ID: 439611
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/439611
ISSN: 0019-8501
PURE UUID: 3a0c5364-23c8-44e4-8987-b43a626218a0
ORCID for Tugra Akarsu: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-0491-3707

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Date deposited: 28 Apr 2020 16:30
Last modified: 17 Mar 2024 05:29

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Author: Pantea Foroudi
Author: Tugra Akarsu ORCID iD
Author: Reza Marvi
Author: Janarthanan Balakrishnan

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