Costales, Emilio ORCID: 0000-0003-1595-5531 and Zeyen, Anica (2022) Chapter 5. Deconstructing social entrepreneurship and its role in society. In: Costales, Emilio ORCID: 0000-0003-1595-5531 and Zeyen, Anica, (eds.) Social Entrepreneurship and Grand Challenges: Navigating Layers of Disruption from COVID-19 and Beyond. Palgrave Macmillan - Springer Nature, Cham, Switzerland, pp. 79-98. ISBN 978-3031074509; 978-3031074493 (doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-07450-9_5)

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Abstract

A Luhmannian view of systems helps us understand grand challenges differently. Seen through Luhmann’s sociological perspective, we can argue that wicked problems arise due to the challenges of communication across social subsystems. Here, humans play a central role as they can enable structural coupling between subsystems, thereby alerting subsystems to such things as, for example, the need to cost for carbon emissions in pay/no pay codifications. Social entrepreneurship at its very core aims to disrupt the status quo by interrupting existing institutions or create institutions where voids existed. To dive deeper into this line of argument, this chapter makes use of ordonomics—an ethics approach rooted, in parts, in institutional theory which also incorporates Luhmannian thinking to deconstruct social entrepreneurship as a multi-layered process of disruption at society’s micro, meso, and macro levels.

Item Type:	Book Section
Uncontrolled Keywords:	social innovation, social innovation model, Ordonomics, social change, social value, institutions
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group:	Greenwich Business School Greenwich Business School > Executive Business Centre Greenwich Business School > School of Business, Operations and Strategy
Last Modified:	12 Nov 2024 14:05
URI:	http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/48425

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