ABSTRACT. The purpose of this article is to gain a deeper understanding of administrative and social processes that generate innovation, strategic components in the innovation process, and adequate methods for fostering social innovation. The overall results provide strong evidence for obstacles to innovation and transformational alteration, the innovation of novel processes in firms, and structures and processes that influence the conduct of innovators. This paper seeks to fill a gap in the current literature by inspecting the transmission of innovations through networks, social innovation in the public sphere, challenges facing social innovation, and the social effect of business innovation. pp. 77–82
JEL codes: O31; O32; Q55

Keywords: social innovation; business; public value; creativity

How to cite: Popescu, Gheorghe H. (2015), “The Dynamics of Social Innovation Networks,” Psychosociological Issues in Human Resource Management 3(2): 77–82.

Received 8 February 2015 • Received in revised form 19 September 2015
Accepted 20 September 2015 • Available online 18 November 2015