Abstract

HERNANDEZ-ASCANIO, José  and  RICH-RUIZ, Manuel. CHARACTERIZATION OF THIRD SECTOR ORGANIZATIONS FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF SOCIAL INNOVATION. A CASE STUDY APPROACH. Innovar [online]. 2020, vol.30, n.75, pp.71-86. ISSN 0121-5051.  https://doi.org/10.15446/innovar.v30n75.83258.

The relationship between social innovation and third sector organizations with a great orientation towards social action is an open debate that has faced a significant number of difficulties. Social innovation, as a construct, covers a multiplicity of social concepts and practices and is related to a great diversity of actors, without a consensus on the link between them. The objective of this paper is, on the one hand, to propose a series of analytical frameworks to explore the aforementioned relationship and, on the other, to apply them in a case study. With this, we try to carry out a characterization of organizations linked to the third sector of social action from the perspective of social innovation. For such a purpose, we use a mixed methodology in which frame analysis and discourse analysis are especially important. The result is that a significant number of the third sector organizations studied show a limited intersection between their reality and the theoretical-praxeological dynamics of social innovation. This is due to a series of limitations based on the concepts, the orientation and the organizational heritage of these organizations.

Keywords : Organizational analysis; social exclusion; social innovation; third sector.

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