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Thriving within the turbulence: a complexity theorizing approach to social innovation by nonprofit organizations
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Taylor, R and Torugsa, A and Arundel, A, Thriving within the turbulence: a complexity theorizing approach to social innovation by nonprofit organizations, Handbook of Research on Contemporary Approaches in Management and Organizational Strategy, IGI Global, C Doğru (ed), Hershey, United States, pp. 36-62. ISBN 9781522563013 (2019) [Research Book Chapter]
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Copyright 2019 IGI Global
DOI: doi:10.4018/978-1-5225-6301-3
Abstract
This chapter embraces complexity theory as a basis for theorizing social innovation in nonprofit organizations (NPOs) operating in the Australian disability sector, which is currently grappling with the implementation of a disruptive policy reform leading to a paradigm shift in the funding of disability support services, the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). To cope and thrive within a new NDIS-fueled marketplace, disability NPOs need to pursue socially innovative agendas. Through a review of cross-disciplinary literatures on social innovation and the use of a complexity theorizing approach that integrates multiple theories (i.e. institutional theory, resource dependence theory, and user innovation theory), this chapter proposes a holistic complexity-based framework that can potentially: explain how disability NPOs develop social innovations operating at the edge of chaos, help improve the ability of research to tackle societal and managerial problems, and hence strengthen management scholarship.
Item Details
Item Type: | Research Book Chapter |
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Keywords: | non-profit organisations, National Disability Insurance Scheme, NDIS, complexity theory, social innovation |
Research Division: | Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services |
Research Group: | Strategy, management and organisational behaviour |
Research Field: | Innovation management |
Objective Division: | Economic Framework |
Objective Group: | Management and productivity |
Objective Field: | Management and productivity not elsewhere classified |
UTAS Author: | Torugsa, A (Dr Ann Torugsa) |
UTAS Author: | Arundel, A (Professor Anthony Arundel) |
ID Code: | 132095 |
Year Published: | 2019 |
Deposited By: | TSBE |
Deposited On: | 2019-04-18 |
Last Modified: | 2020-07-29 |
Downloads: | 0 |
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