TY - CHAP A1 - Seelos, Christian A1 - Mair, Johanna A1 - Traeger, Charlotte A1 - Nolting, Fenja ED - Dorado, Silvia ED - Haugh, Helen ED - Wadhwani, R. Daniel ED - Hamann, Ralph T1 - Advancing Phenomenon-Based Research on Complex Societal Challenges: The Case of Homelessness T2 - Big Picture Approaches to the Impact of Social Innovations N2 - We advance organizational research on complex societal challenges and showcase the relevance of a system perspective to analyze organized efforts to address homelessness as a social problem. We adopt a phenomenon-based approach to theorizing and generate plausible explanations by analyzing historical accounts of decisions and actions taken to tackle homelessness by various actors across different sectors in the United States between 1960 and 2021. We apply an analytical scaffolding proposed by Mair and Seelos (2021) to examine how organizations intervene in social systems and explicate the causal, situation, and problem realms of homelessness. Attending to these three realms helps to reveal how homelessness was problematized differently over time and to examine how different causal assumptions shaped organizational decisions about developing and scaling solutions to homelessness. Based on our analysis, we develop a series of propositions that capture contextualized insights on the characteristics and consequences of efforts to address homelessness, accounting for linkages between the causal, situation, and problem realms of homelessness. Finally, our analytical and theoretical approach helps uncover the interconnectedness of scaling and scale, providing valuable insights for theory and policy. Y1 - 2025 SN - 978-1-83608-528-7 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1108/s0733-558x20250000096002 VL - 96 SP - 25 EP - 50 PB - Emerald Publishing Limited ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Mair, Johanna A1 - Seelos, Christian T1 - Crear espirales de desarrollo JF - Iniciativa Emprendedora Y1 - 2005 VL - 48 SP - 99 EP - 108 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Mair, Johanna A1 - Seelos, Christian T1 - Digital democracy JF - European Business Forum N2 - Comite para Democratizacao da Informatica (CDI) is a non-political, non-profit, and non-governmental organization founded in Brazil in 1995. It aims to promote the social inclusion of less-privileged people, using information and communication technologies to teach them the basic concepts of self-esteem, citizenship and their rights as individuals. CDI executive director and founder Rodrigo Baggio's first step was to launch a campaign called "Computers for All", where companies were contacted and asked to donate used computers to the favelas. The next step was to create computer schools in the slums. In response to demand for new schools in other Brazilian states and beyond, CDI designed a "social franchise" model. The idea was to set up regional CDI offices to create new schools. Students are motivated to develop ideas that generate income and give them better employment prospects. The challenge now is for Baggio and his team to manage growth without losing the original vision of CDI. Y1 - 2006 UR - https://search.proquest.com/docview/224667272?accountid=11379 SN - 1469-6460 VL - 26 SP - 59 EP - 61 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Seelos, Christian A1 - Mair, Johanna T1 - Eine lohnende Investition mit ungewissem Ausgang JF - Neue Caritas N2 - Innovation in sozialen Organisationen bedeutet vor allem eines nicht: die Garantie auf eine schnelle Lösung von Problemen. Vielmehr ist Innovation ein Prozess, der das Lernpotenzial des Unternehmens steigert und damit auch den gewollten Mehrwert generiert. KW - Innovation Y1 - 2015 VL - 17 SP - 9 EP - 13 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Mair, Johanna A1 - Seelos, Christian T1 - El negocio de beneficiar los pobres JF - Liderazgo, Estrategia & Actualidad (Bolivia) Y1 - 2008 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Mair, Johanna A1 - Seelos, Christian A1 - Borwankar, Anjaney T1 - Emprendedores sociales y desarrollo sostenible JF - Iniciativa Emprendedora Y1 - 2004 VL - 43 SP - 7 EP - 13 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Mair, Johanna A1 - Seelos, Christian T1 - Entropy International: Enabling businesses to make a contribution to sustainable development N2 - This case documents the circumstances of managing the growth phase of a start-up company. Entropy International faces the unique challenges and opportunities of social entrepreneurship but also entrepreneurship in general. Founded by a visionary environmental activist in 1996 as an environmental consulting boutique in the United Kingdom, Entropy grew with the emerging needs of large multinational corporations to publicly report on and minimise the environmental and social impacts of their operations. Entropy started out as a two-person consultancy to become the market leader in Europe, selling an integrated environmental, health and safety, quality control and reporting suite. At the time of the case (March 2003), Entropy employed 30 people and expected revenues of 1.6 million pounds for fiscal year 2003. KW - Entrepreneurs KW - Environment KW - Social responsibility KW - Sustainable development KW - United Kingdom Y1 - 2004 PB - IESE Business School ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Mair, Johanna A1 - Seelos, Christian ED - Ziegler, Rafeal T1 - Hope for Sustainable Development: How Social Entrepreneurs Make It Happen T2 - An Introduction to Social Entrepreneurship: Voices, Preconditions and Contexts KW - Gemeinwirtschaft KW - Nachhaltige Entwicklung Y1 - 2009 SN - 9781848443068 U6 - https://doi.org/10.4337/9781848446229.00021 SP - 228 EP - 246 PB - Edward Elgar CY - Cheltenham ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Mair, Johanna A1 - Seelos, Christian ED - Rangan, V. Kashturi ED - Quelch, John A. ED - Herrero, Gustavo ED - Barton, Brooke T1 - How social entrepreneurs enable human, social, and economic development T2 - Business Solutions for the Global Poor: Creating Social and Economic Value Y1 - 2007 SN - 978-0-7879-8216-4 SP - 271 EP - 294 PB - Jossey-Bass CY - San Francisco ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Seelos, Christian A1 - Mair, Johanna T1 - Innovation and Scale: A Tough Balancing Act JF - Stanford Social Innovation Review KW - Social Innovation KW - Scaling KW - Organizational Innovation Y1 - 2013 VL - Spring 2013 IS - Special Supplement: Innovation for a Complex World SP - 12 EP - 14 ER -