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Categorizing Recycling Cooperatives as a Form of Social Innovation and Social Development

Year: 2019

Type: article

Abstract: The process of social innovation produces the effect of reconstructing social relations systems, as well as the structure of rules and resources that reproduce such systems. The objective of this research is to verify how recycling cooperatives are adapting to social innovation and social business model. The multiple case study was chosen as research strategy, the approach will be qualitative and will be exploratory and descriptive. The epistemological positioning is positivist and the interview was the main source of data collection. Although social innovation is recent, recycling cooperatives have demonstrated that they have all of their characteristics and also make it clear that they are going through a transition from a business model of a bona fide organization to a competitive company with the characteristics of a social.

Source: International Journal for Innovation Education and Research

DOI: 10.31686/ijier.vol7.iss10.1827

Authors: Marcelo Okano, Graziela Bizin Panza, Marcelo Eloy Fernandes

Institution: Centro Paula Souza

Language: English

Topic: Social Sciences and Governance

Subfield: Urban Studies

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Responsible consumption and production

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W2985242521

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Cites: 19

Cited by: 1

Related to: 10