Building a middle-range theory of Transformative Social Innovation; theoretical pitfalls and methodological responses
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...…paper builds on self-determination theory (Ryan & Deci, 2000) and intrinsic motivation research (Thomas & Velthouse, 1990) to elaborate six dimensions of psychological empowerment: (1) relatedness, (2) autonomy, (3) competence, (4) impact, (5) meaning, and (6) resilience (Haxeltine et al., 2017)....
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...Data analysis was on the one hand done deductively, using the sensitizing concepts as code, and on the other hand inductively to allow for additional insights to emerge (Haxeltine et al., 2017)....
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...CONTACT Flor Avelino avelino@drift.eur.nl DRIFT/Transition Academy, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, Postbus 1738, 3000 DR, Rotterdam, The Netherlands (Haxeltine et al., 2017)....
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...Such a relational understanding of social innovation acknowledges its distributed, co-produced diffusion [57] while not neglecting the particular agency of those actors shaping a certain social innovation [120]....
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...Deliberately grounding the SI analysis in Social Science and Humanities insights (Moulaert et al. 2017) and seeking to remain attentive to the complexity of distributed SI agency (Pel et al. 2017), the typology rather informs reflexive practice (Haxeltine et al. 2017b)....
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...Within the context of a four-year research project on transformative social innovation (Haxeltine et al. 2017b; TRANSIT 2018), we have analysed and compared 20 transnational networks of social innovation initiatives....
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...This includes the communication infrastructures through which SI concepts are mediated and spread (Cf. Haxeltine et al. 2017a; Pel and Backhaus 2018)....
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...Involving new ways of doing, organizing, framing and knowing (Avelino et al. 2019), it refers to a wide range of developments such as Ecovillages, Time Banks, sharing schemes, science shops and makerspaces (Haxeltine et al. 2017a)....
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...Informed by various relational and network-oriented theoretical perspectives in sociology, innovation theory, and governance scholarship, amongst others (Pel et al. 2017; Haxeltine et al. 2017a), “SI ecosystems” are differentiated along the empowerment processes that constitute them....
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