Grassroots innovations in community energy: The role of intermediaries in niche development

T Hargreaves, S Hielscher, G Seyfang… - Global environmental …, 2013 - Elsevier
Community energy projects are attracting increasing attention as potential sources of
innovation to support sustainable energy transitions. Research into 'grassroots innovations' …

How sustainable entrepreneurs engage in institutional change: insights from biomass torrefaction in the Netherlands

NA Thompson, AM Herrmann, MP Hekkert - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2015 - Elsevier
Sustainable entrepreneurship often requires a purposeful change to the existing business
environment, market regulations, and societal norms and values (institutions) to ensure …

Understanding role models for change: a multilevel analysis of success factors of grassroots initiatives for sustainable consumption

J Grabs, N Langen, G Maschkowski… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2016 - Elsevier
In order to achieve sustainable societies, we need models of behavior that go beyond
individuals equating wellbeing and material consumption levels. Lowering individual …

How to design and implement social business models for base-of-the-pyramid (BoP) markets?

S Goyal, BS Sergi, M Jaiswal - The European Journal of Development …, 2015 - Springer
This article studies for-profit social enterprises, which bundle entrepreneurial attitude with
the passion to design and implement inclusive business models targeting the basic needs at …

Beyond green niches? Growth strategies of environmentally-motivated social enterprises

I Vickers, F Lyon - International Small Business Journal, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
The article examines the strategies by which environmentally-motivated social enterprises
seek to scale up their positive impacts, drawing on a theoretical understanding of the role of …

[HTML][HTML] A grassroots sustainable energy niche? Reflections on community energy in the UK

G Seyfang, S Hielscher, T Hargreaves… - … Innovation and Societal …, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract System-changing innovations for sustainability transitions are proposed to emerge
in radical innovative niches.'Strategic Niche Management'theory predicts that niche-level …

Transcending the pyramid: opportunity co-creation for social innovation

M De Silva, Z Khan, T Vorley, J Zeng - Industrial Marketing Management, 2020 - Elsevier
There is a lack of understanding of how social enterprises with their partners co-create
opportunities to concurrently generate both social and economic value across the pyramid …

Towards sustainability: The innovation paths of social enterprise

A Picciotti - Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The concepts of sustainable development and social economy are currently undergoing a
process of convergence, determined by the extension of the concept of sustainability and the …

Extraordinarily ordinary: working in the social economy

A Amin - Social Enterprise Journal, 2009 - emerald.com
Purpose–Policy actors around the world are increasingly looking to the social economy–
markets explicitly oriented towards meeting social needs, usually through the third sector–to …

Enhancing socio-ecological value creation through sustainable innovation 2.0: Moving away from maximizing financial value capture

B Dyck, BS Silvestre - Journal of cleaner production, 2018 - Elsevier
There is considerable consensus that a key to addressing the serious socio-ecological
crises facing the world is for organizations to implement innovations that foster sustainable …