Marketing Social Innovations Concept: An Appeal for Methodological Pluralism
23 Pages Posted: 5 Feb 2016
Date Written: February 4, 2016
Abstract
Societal problems represent both opportunities and challenges for private and public organizations. Issues such as poverty, climate change and inequality can be seen either as a burden or as a source for innovation. Multinational Corporations, Nonprofit Organizations (NGOs), Cooperatives and Social-Purpose Organizations (SPOs) have engaged in projects that can tackle some of these major societal issues. The paper explores existing discussion over controversial social marketing concept and develops superior conceptualization of social innovation marketing concept based on pluralist research paradigm found in the philosophy of social science literature.
Keywords: social innovation, social marketing, social innovation marketing, pluralist research paradigm
JEL Classification: H40, L39, L31, B40, D64, I30, M30, M31, M39
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