Social Innovation for Sustainability: The Case of Oil Producing Communities in the Niger Delta region
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Theoretical Background
2.1. Social Innovation
2.2. Sustainability
2.3. The Relationship Between Social Innovation and Sustainability
2.4. Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) Framework
2.5. IAD Framework Adapted to Social Innovation
3. Methodology
3.1. Data Collection
3.1.1. Semi-Structured Interviews
3.1.2. Focus Group Discussion
3.1.3. Secondary Literature
3.1.4. Observation
3.2. Analysis
3.3. Research Site
4. Findings
4.1. Context
4.1.1. Available Resources
4.1.2. Governance
4.2. Action Arenas: Actors and Action Situations
4.2.1. Government Agencies
4.2.2. Community Members
4.2.3. Facilitators
4.2.4. Oil and Gas Companies
4.3. Pattern of Interaction
4.3.1. The Planning Phases
4.3.2. The Implementation Phases
4.4. Outcomes and Evaluation Criteria
4.5. Summary of Findings
5. Conclusions and Policy Recommendations
Author Contributions
Funding
Conflicts of Interest
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Key Concepts from the Theoretical Background | Description of the Concept | |
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Context | Available resources | Supply of material and assets that can be drawn on by stakeholders in order for social innovation to function. |
Governance | Actions, rules, control and ways of governing. | |
Action Arena | Actors | Individuals or groups who portray a character in social innovation and undertake social actions. |
Action situations | Social space where individuals and groups interact and solve problems. | |
Interactions | Patterns of interaction | Existing possibilities in which actors interact with one another. |
Outcomes | Outcomes | Results that follow as a consequence of pattern of interactions by actors in the action arena. |
Evaluation criteria | Standards against which outcomes are measured. |
Category of Questions | Questions Were Asked to Understand: |
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Resource systems | How the dominant oil sector has promoted social innovation |
The importance of resource characteristics (size, economic value, distribution and interaction among resource elements) | |
Built facilities and efficiency of systems | |
Governance systems | The predominant organizations, namely government and nongovernment organizations, structure of networks |
Prevailing property rights, as well as monitoring and sanctioning rules | |
Actors | The demographic nature and characteristics of actors as well as intensity of involvement |
The function(s) of different groups of actors | |
Existing norms and available capital | |
Facilitation techniques and processes to promote social innovation | |
Perceptions on challenges associated with tools and processes | |
The extent of receptiveness from other actors and institutions | |
Action situations: Interactions and outcomes | Communication, dialogue and information sharing approaches |
Conflicts and conflict resolution approaches | |
Networking, interventions and self-organizing activities | |
Monitoring and evaluative activities such as performance measures on sustainability, ownership and accountability | |
The status quo in terms of finance, programs and outreach | |
Citizens’ representativeness and equality considerations | |
Expectations contrasted with actualized outcomes | |
Description of effectiveness from perspective of each group of actors |
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Omobhude C, Chen S-H. Social Innovation for Sustainability: The Case of Oil Producing Communities in the Niger Delta region. Sustainability. 2019; 11(23):6767. https://doi.org/10.3390/su11236767
Chicago/Turabian StyleOmobhude, Christian, and Shih-Hsin Chen. 2019. "Social Innovation for Sustainability: The Case of Oil Producing Communities in the Niger Delta region" Sustainability 11, no. 23: 6767. https://doi.org/10.3390/su11236767