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标题：Detecting Social Innovation Agency; Methodological reflections on units of analysis in dispersed transformation processes
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作者：Bonno Pel ; Jens Dorland ; Julia Wittmayer 等
期刊名称：European Public & Social Innovation Review
电子版ISSN：2529-9824
出版年度：2017
卷号：2
期号：1
页码：110-126
DOI：10.31637/epsir.17-1.8
出版社：Universidad del País Vasco
摘要：Considering that it is important for the social innovation research field to confront its methodological challenges, this contribution addresses the challenge of choosing appropriate units of analysis. Invoking insights from actor-network theory, it is demonstrated that this challenge is pervasive: the agency in social innovation processes is distributed and therefore fundamentally difficult to detect and ascribe. This elusiveness becomes particularly pressing in attempts towards systematic comparison of cases. Critically evaluating the three main unit of analysis choices that guided an international comparison of 20 transnational SI networks and their local manifestations, methodological lessons are drawn on the agents that SI can be ascribed to, on the transnational agency through which it spreads and on the relevant transformation contexts involved.
关键词：Social Innovation Demarcation Networks Methodology Actor; networks theory Coproduction Transformation