Making a Difference Strategies for Scaling Social Innovation for Greater Impact

By PhD FRANCES WESTLEY, J. Mcconnell, N. Antadze. 2010

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The Social Finance and Social Innovation Nexus 1 (2012, background): “However, framing social entrepreneurship in this way can reinforce normative cognitive frames based on business logics within the field of social innovation – from how social risk and return are assessed to how social impacts are evaluated (Dart, 2004, Nicholls, 2010b, Westley and Antadze 2010).”
Impact Metrics for Social Innovation: Barriers or Bridges to Radical Change? (2012, background): “Such successful social innovations have durability and broad impact’ (Westley and Antadze 2010, p. 2).”
Constructing resilient, transformative communities through sustainable “food hubs” (2013, background): “The circumstances for their creation include community diversity and reflexive processes that lead to more adaptive capacity (Nelson et al. 2013, Fridman and Lenters 2013, Campbell and MacRae 2013, Simmie and Martin 2010, Westley and Antadze 2010).”
The concept of the Anthropocene as a game-changer: a new context for social innovation and transformations to sustainability (2017, background): “…in social innovations, that is, various initiatives such as policies, processes, programs, platforms, and practices that will, over time, transform the defining routines, resource and authority flows, or beliefs of the broader social system in which they are introduced (Westley and Antadze 2010).”
Opportunities and institutions: A co-creation story of the king crab industry (2015, background): “These institutional entrepreneurs are actors who actively seek to change the broader social system through changing political, economic, legal or cultural institutions (Westley and Antadze, 2010).”
Mapping the Various Meanings of Social Innovation: Towards a Differentiated Understanding of an Emerging Concept (2012, background): “As we find a variation in the scope of the challenges (e.g. climate change as global challenge vs. obesity as occurring only in specific regions), it becomes clear that challenges can differ across local contexts (Westley and Antadze, 2010).”
Five Configurations for Scaling Up Social Innovation (2014, methodology): “…santropolroulant.org/), a Montreal-based nonprofit organization that has built an intergenerational food security program from a successful “meals on wheels” initiative, but has declined to expand to other communities despite winning wide media attention in Canada (Westley & Antadze, 2010).”