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Conclusion: Socio-Tech Enterprises, Actors, and Dynamics of Innovation Development and Implementation

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Social enterprises, a new organizational form that pursues social goals along with profit goals (as opposed to the traditional organizations that primarily seek profits), are widely celebrated as the private sector’s response to the grave socio-economic-environmental issues facing humanity (Ebrahim in Research in Organizational Behavior 34: 81–100, 2014; Pache and Santos in Academy of Management Review 35(3): 455–476).

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Joy, S., Poonamallee, L., Scillitoe, J. (2020). Conclusion: Socio-Tech Enterprises, Actors, and Dynamics of Innovation Development and Implementation. In: Poonamallee, L., Scillitoe, J., Joy, S. (eds) Socio-Tech Innovation. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39554-4_16

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