Research articles

• Editorial Synthesis: Methodological Challenges in Social Innovation Research

  Julia Wittmayer, Bonno Pel, Tom Bauler, Flor Avelino

  1-16

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• Social Innovation and Participatory Action Research: A way to research community?

  Gerald Taylor Aiken

  17-33

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• Contributing to Civic Innovation through Participatory Action Research

  Kees Biekart

  34-44

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• How to deal with an "essentially contested concept" on the field? Sampling social innovations through the Delphi method

  Ela Callorda Fossati, Florence Degavre, Marthe Nyssens

  45-58

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• Building a middle-range theory of Transformative Social Innovation; theoretical pitfalls and methodological responses

  Alexander Haxeltine, Bonno Pel, Julia Wittmayer, Adina Dumitru, Rene Kemp, Flor Avelino

  59-77

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• A Global Mapping of Social Innovations: Challenges of a Theory Driven Methodology

  Christoph Kaletka, Antonius Schröder

  78-92

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• Constructing The Evolution of Social Innovation: Methodological Insights from a Multi-Case Study

  Katharine Albertine McGowan, Frances Westley

  93-109

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• Detecting Social Innovation Agency; Methodological reflections on units of analysis in dispersed transformation processes

  Bonno Pel, Jens Dorland, Julia Wittmayer, Michael Soegaard Jorgensen

  110-126

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• Introducing Design Thinking in Social Innovation and in the Public Sector: a design based learning framework

  Francesca Rizzo, Alessandro Deserti, Onur Cobanli

  127-143

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