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Let’s Talk Stigma Out: An Interaction-Based Process of Stigma Recognition and Removal within Organizational Fields
No full textStigma is relational and intersubjective, as it depends on how stigmatizing audiences and stigmatized actors make sense of it. However, little research has investigated the nuances of the interaction process through which stigma comes to be recognized and eventually removed. We address this puzzle by studying stigma in the field of cooperatives in the Lazio region of Italy. Following the involvement of one cooperative in illegal activities, cooperatives in the region were stigmatized by its exchange partners: nonprofit organizations and local governments. Cooperatives’ initial strategy to remove stigma led their exchange partners to change their perception of the root causes of the stigma affecting cooperatives. Cooperatives recognized this change through interaction with their exchange partners and therefore adapted their stigma-related strategy. This process successfully removed the stigma and transformed the way in which cooperatives engaged in exchanges with their partners. Building on this evidence, we develop an interaction-based process model of stigma recognition and removal that reconnects and extends the research streams on stigma and organizational fields
Spraying Inclusion: Graffiti and Street Art as Urban and Digital Social Justice Practice in Contemporary Rome
No full textSocial Enterprises as Chameleons: The Rise of Social Enterprises as Innovative Solutions to Complex Challenges in Italy
No full textWe draw from historical institutionalism to investigate how historical contingencies shape the influence of multiple institutional logics on the emergence and institutionalization of a social innovation situated at the intersection of different institutional domains. Relying on a vast database of more than 500 archival sources, we show that the social enterprise organizational form emerged in Italy in the early 1980s as an innovative response to societal problems left unaddressed by the State. Initially, the social enterprise organizational form was mainly influenced by the cooperative logic. Over time, elements borrowed from the social welfare and commercial logics complemented the cooperative logic, resulting in greater heterogeneity in terms of characteristics of the social enterprises organizational model. This heterogeneity reflected the growing complexity and interplay of pressures from the cooperative, welfare, and market domains. Building on this evidence, we advance a multilevel, historically grounded understanding of the complex interplay between social innovations and the institutional orders in which they are embedded. In this way, we contribute to research on social innovations, historical institutionalism, and social enterprises
Open Innovation and Sustainability in the Digital Age: Opportunities and Challenges
No full textOpen innovation has increasingly been recognised as a critical driver of organisational performance, enabling firms to access external knowledge, share risks, and leverage complementary resources. At the same time, increasing thought has been devoted to the role that open innovation may play in advancing sustainability, particularly in response to the pressing environmental and societal grand challenges we are currently facing. Given the relevance of this topic, this editorial presents a comprehensive examination of how the joint consideration of open innovation and sustainability can lead to superior organisational performance and benefit society as a whole. After the description of the current state of knowledge, categorized into four main research streams, the manuscript summarizes the main findings of the papers published in this issue. The eight articles explore this intersection between open innovation and sustainability through a variety of theoretical approaches and methodological designs, highlighting both the opportunities and challenges of leveraging open innovation for environmental, social, and economic sustainability, while underscoring the contingent nature of such benefits. We conclude this editorial by outlining future research directions worth investigating regarding open innovation and sustainability. Overall, we contribute to the debate regarding open innovation and sustainability in the digital age by offering an integrated, empirically grounded view of how openness contributes to the creation of environmental, social, and economic value
