Eco-Social Enterprise’s Innovation in the Human Society

Chin-Ken Lin¹, Ariana Chang¹, Jer-San Hu²

¹PhD Program in Business Administration, College of Management, Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan.
²Department of Business Administration, Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan.

DOI: 10.4236/ajibm.2015.512081                

Abstract

The aim of this study is to reframe the eco-social enterprise from different types of societal innovations in the human society. This paper argues and analyzes for the following statements. First, a three-layer cake with icing model of total productive system of an industrial society is introduced. Second, this research introduces the challenge-creative response model of economic evolution and the societal innovation in different categories of society. Third, a three-tiered conceptual framework from an ordonomic perspective is presented. Fourth, the vantage point of the three-tiered ordonomic perspective and the societal innovations in different categories of society are formed into the ordonomic-societal innovations matrix in response to the game rule in human society. Fifth, this research delves into the cases of two eco-social enterprises: Neumarkter Lammsbraeu, a bio-pioneer in the production of organic beer, and Local Food Links and Wessex Reinvestment Trust, a local food community to illustrate the essence of ordonomic-societal innovations matrix from the viewpoints of economic growth paradigms. All in all, the article ends with a short summary and some concluding remarks.

Keywords

Eco-Social Enterprise, Societal Innovations, Ordonomic Perspective, Ordonomic-Societal Innovations Matrix

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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