Institutional embeddedness and the scaling-up of collaboration and social innovation

The case of a Hong Kong-based international NGO

Bibliographic Data

ID6326762
AuthorsEliza Wy Lee (University of Hong Kong), Juan Manuel Restrepo (University of Hong Kong)
Year2015
Volume43
Issue3
Pages459-471
Publication date2015-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenuePolicy & Politics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0305-5736 • E-ISSN: 1470-8442
PublisherBristol University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1332/030557315x14352255139713
OpenAlexW2182948359
LanguageEN
Citations received9

This paper utilises the case of an international NGO (INGO) in Hong Kong to explore how institutional embeddedness may facilitate the scaling-up of collaboration and social innovation. Adapting Hess’s (2004) framework, we contend that the scaling-up of collaboration among organisations is affected by the societal, network and territorial embeddedness of the organisational actors. These three forms of embeddedness dynamically affect each other through the agency of the actors. The concept of embeddedness also usefully illustrates how networks and collaboration can scale up beyond the local level, thus providing the conditions for the scaling-up of social innovation

Affect (linguistics · Agency (philosophy · Business · Economic geography · Economics · Embeddedness · Political science · Public relations · Scale (ratio · Social science · Sociology · Structure and agency · Community Development and Social Impact · Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering · Social Capital and Networks

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