Shifting or Adapting: Cases study of Emerging Social Innovation in China

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The designation “social entrepreneurship” or “social entrepreneurship” has gained popularity in recent years. During the past decade, national governments have made unprecedented shifts in supporting social innovation and the social sector. China’s debut into the field of social innovation begs many questions about the future and nature of social innovation itself. Most academic literature around social innovation has been focused and evidenced through Western examples or how social innovation has thus operated under Western governments. China’s form and process of social innovation may be unparalleled and may challenge existing concepts and assumptions around social innovation. In exploring this new area of research, this article seeks to do three things: (1) to summarize, through literature review, the current knowledge that exists around social innovation, (2) to use a large number of Chinese cases study on existing social innovation to test the existing knowledge, and (3) to arrive at a new, more comprehensive understanding of social innovation that incorporates social innovation in China