Engaging Employees as Social Innovators

What is it about?

This article explores a variety of ways employees are being engaged as social innovators in their companies or as co-creators in partnerships with other businesses, NGOs, and/or government agencies. They are engaged as intrapreneurs in company innovations contests, in partnerships with external social entrepreneurs, and in pro bono global service programs, and as members of innovation teams in organization-wide innovations. The study compares and contrasts four employee engagement platforms and assesses their impact on participating employees, companies, and communities from these efforts.

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Why is it important?

------------------------------------------------------- Contribution to Academic Scholarship ------------------------------------------------------- How employees can be engaged in social innovation to better their business, society, and themselves. ------------------------------------------------------- Contribution to Management Practice ------------------------------------------------------- Identifies and differentiates 4 new forms of corporate social innovation and how employees are engaged in each of them. Next stage of CSR for leading firms. ---------------------------- Author Perspective ---------------------------- Focus on CSR/Sustainability finds new practices coming into companies via worldwide explosion of social innovation and innovators. Our research took us to fifty companies in thirty countries. Passionate employees + supportive managers = 100s of social entrepreneurs and enterprises making the world a better place.