Abstract
Social innovations are human innovations, made by humans, for humans, in interaction with humans, based on human and ethical values, in a human scale. Social innovations can never be made isolated from humans. But this often happens. Politicians, managers or other leading people are saying: “We know what is right for you, the community/society! – You have to change this or that; Your behavior should look like this; Your responsibility is that …”. This is not an innovation. – This is a manipulation! To get able to come from manipulations to social innovations we need methodologies to get able to give humans a voice. Social innovations are always based on the voice of the society/community/people/stakeholders. This is not as easy as it sounds. We have to re-learn to listen to the people. What are they talking about? What are the values behind? What are the grown values of a community and – very important – what are their future values? – To get able to listen to communities the right questions have to be pronounced.
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- Corporate Social Responsibility
- Social Innovation
- United Nations Industrial Development Organization
- Weather Report
- International Corporate Social Responsibility
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In the Vietnam CSR Project a wooden dice had been developed; Following core subjects are placed with symbols on the dice: Organizational Governance and Human Rights; Labor; The Environment; Fair Operation Practices; Consumers and Community Involvement and Development.
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Walker, T., Beranek, F. (2013). Social Innovation by Giving a Voice. In: Osburg, T., Schmidpeter, R. (eds) Social Innovation. CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36540-9_21
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