TY - JOUR A1 - Mair, Johanna A1 - Seelos, Christian T1 - When Innovation Goes Wrong JF - Stanford Social Innovation Review N2 - Efforts by social enterprises to develop novel interventions receive a great deal of attention. Yet these organizations often stumble when it comes to turning innovation into impact. As a result, they fail to achieve their full potential. Here’s a guide to diagnosing and preventing several “pathologies” that underlie this failure. Y1 - 2016 UR - https://ssir.org/articles/entry/when_innovation_goes_wrong SN - 1542-7099 VL - 14 IS - 4 SP - 27 EP - 33 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Mair, Johanna A1 - Seelos, Christian T1 - When business becomes a tool for fighting poverty JF - Business Digest, UK edition N2 - Can we continue to categorically dismiss consumers in Southern countries at a time when companies are struggling to find new markets? Based on « Profitable Business Models and Market Creation in the Context of Deep Poverty: A Strategic View », by Christian Seelos and Johanna Mair, Academy of Management Perspectives, November 2007, and the interviews of Iqbal Quadir, founder and director of the Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship at MIT (USA), February 2009. Y1 - 2009 ET - 193 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Mair, Johanna A1 - Seelos, Christian T1 - Water is Power JF - Impact India. Stanford Social Innovation Review Y1 - 2017 UR - https://ssir.org/articles/entry/water_is_power VL - 2 IS - Spring 2017 SP - 24 EP - 29 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Radeke, Joanna A1 - Mair, Johanna A1 - Seelos, Christian ED - Lenssen, Gilbert G. ED - Smith, N. Craig T1 - Waste Concern: Fixing Market Failures BT - An Executive Education Case and Textbook T2 - Managing Sustainable Business Y1 - 2019 SN - 978-94-024-1142-3 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-1144-7 SP - 557 EP - 574 PB - Springer CY - Dordrecht ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Mair, Johanna A1 - Seelos, Christian ED - Perrini, Francesco T1 - The Sekem initiative: a holistic vision to develop people T2 - New Social Entrepreneurship : What awaits social entrepreneurship ventures? Y1 - 2006 SN - 9781845427818 SP - 210 EP - 223 PB - Edward Elgar CY - Cheltenham ER - TY - GEN A1 - Mair, Johanna A1 - Seelos, Christian T1 - The Sekem Initiative BT - a selection of the best cases from IESE Business School T2 - Improving management Y1 - 2005 SN - 9788486851620 SP - 269 EP - 297 PB - IESE Estudios y Ediciones ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Seelos, Christian A1 - Mair, Johanna A1 - Traeger, Charlotte T1 - The future of grand challenges research: Retiring a hopeful concept and endorsing research principles JF - International Journal of Management Reviews N2 - Editorial notes in leading management journals have urged scholars to address Grand Challenges (GC) as an opportunity for producing knowledge that matters for society. This review explores whether current conceptualizations of GC support a productive path for management and organizational scholarship by guiding empirical inquiry, facilitating cumulative theory development, and informing practice. We systematically examine scholarly articles, calls for papers, and editorial notes published in management journals for consistency in how researchers use and define the concept of GC and the scope of associated phenomena and attributes. We find three prominent conceptual architectures in use: discursive, family resemblance, and phenomenon driven. The variety and incoherence of current uses of the GC concept and the lack of efforts to improve its analytical competence lead us to suggest its retirement. Instead, we propose building on the enthusiasm around GC research and using GC as a term to define research principles that collectively help align research efforts and improve theoretical development and practice. The principles we propose capture a genuine origin story for management research on GC. Y1 - 2023 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1111/ijmr.12324 VL - 25 IS - 2 SP - 251 EP - 269 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Seelos, Christian A1 - Mair, Johanna A1 - Battilana, Julie A1 - Dacin, M. Tina ED - Lounsbury, Michael T1 - The embeddedness of social entrepreneurship: Understanding variation across geographic communities T2 - Communities and Organizations N2 - Social enterprise organizations (SEOs) arise from entrepreneurial activities with the aim of achieving social goals. SEOs have been identified as alternative and/or complementary to the actions of governments and international organizations to address poverty and poverty-related social needs. Using a number of illustrative cases, we explore how variation of local institutional mechanisms shapes the local “face of poverty” in different communities and how this relates to variations in the emergence and strategic orientations of SEOs. We develop a model of the productive opportunity space for SEOs as a basis of and an inspiration for further scholarly inquiry. KW - Social entrepreneurship KW - Civil Society or Community Y1 - 2011 SN - 978-1-78052-284-5 SN - 0733-558X VL - 33 SP - 333 EP - 363 ET - Research in the Sociology of Organizations ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Mair, Johanna A1 - Seelos, Christian T1 - Sustainable development, sustainable profit JF - European Business Forum N2 - Social entrepreneurship can be a powerful tool for corporations to gain entry and build loyalty in developing markets. While economic growth has led to tremendous improvements in personal freedoms and well-being for people in industrialised societies, it has left too many behind. The images of hunger, disease and human misery refuse to disappear from our television screens. How can growth be made more sustainable while at the same time including and benefiting all of society? The paradox is painful: while traditional markets are saturated, billions of people are desperately waiting for companies to cater to their most basic needs and wants. Social entrepreneurs act as change agents that enable the poor to participate in economic life. Entrepreneurs invent business models that can be scaled up and possibly repeated elsewhere: the Grameen Bank model has been replicated all over the world, with huge success. Social entrepreneurship initiatives also constitute local resources that lend themselves to new configurations for novel forms of value creation. KW - Social responsibility KW - Entrepreneurs KW - Sustainable development KW - Developing countries KW - LDCs KW - Economic development Y1 - 2005 UR - https://search.proquest.com/docview/224672209?accountid=11379 SN - 1469-6460 VL - 20 SP - 49 EP - 53 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Seelos, Christian A1 - Mair, Johanna ED - Laasch, Oliver ED - Jamali, Dima ED - Freeman, R. E. ED - Suddaby, Roy T1 - Social Innovation: Specifying Pathways for Impact T2 - Research Handbook of Responsible Management N2 - Outlining both historical foundations and the latest research trends, this Research Handbook offers a unique and cutting-edge overview of the numerous avenues to responsible management. Opening with a conceptual mapping of the field, thought leaders such as Henry Mintzberg and Archie Carroll present foundational and controversial views. Frameworks such as sustainability management, responsible leadership, humanistic and biomimetic management are introduced. Glocal approaches include responsible management with Chinese characteristics, West African Yoruba, and American Pragmatism. Exploring frameworks for the responsible management process, such as theories of practice, and for responsible management learning and innovation, readers are introduced to key methods responsible management research, such as participatory action research. Groundbreaking in scope and depth, this Handbook caters to the responsible management research community, particularly to the Academy of Management and to United Nations PRME signatory business schools. Policymakers and practitioners will benefit from its insight into the latest advances in responsible management research. Y1 - 2020 SN - 9781788971959 PB - Edward Elgar Publishing CY - Cheltenham,UK ER -