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Sustainable Living and Business

Management of Social Innovations as a Shaping of Social Transformation

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Overview

  • What conditions can foster social innovation?
  • What role do the social sciences play in these transformation processes?
  • What concrete examples of social innovation can be found in cities, communities, regions?

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

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About this book

The title of the book derives from the theme of the 20th Conference on Applied Social Sciences of the Professional Association of German Sociologists, held in Munich in May 2019.

The question of what concrete contributions social innovations can make to the transition to forms of sustainable coexistence and economic activity is as much the focus of this book as the question of what contribution the social sciences can make. Thus, on the one hand, it is about concrete social innovations that help us to achieve the goal of living and doing business sustainably, but on the other hand, it is also about the way in which the social sciences - not least through appropriate theoretical and methodological training - can be made socially responsible for the success of such socially innovative processes.


This book is a translation of an original German edition. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation.


Editors and Affiliations

  • ESSI European School of Social Innovation, Dortmund, Germany

    Hans-Werner Franz

  • Hochschule München, München, Germany

    Gerald Beck, Diego Compagna, Peter Dürr, Wolfgang Gehra, Martina Wegner

About the editors

Hans-Werner Franz, Freelance Consultant for Quality of Organisations, Member of the Executive Board of BDS, Berufsverband Deutscher Soziologinnen und Soziologen e.V. (Professional Association of German Sociologists)

Gerald Beck, Professor of Social Innovation and Organizational Development, member of the research network For Democracy.

Diego Compagna, Professor of Theories of Social Transformation at the Faculty of Applied Social Sciences at Munich University of Applied Sciences.

Peter Dürr, Professor of Knowledge and Communication Management at the Faculty of Applied Social Sciences at Munich University of Applied Sciences.

Wolfgang Gehra, Professor of Social Management and Public Relations at the Faculty of Applied Social Sciences at Munich University of Applied Sciences.

Martina Wegner, Professor for the Organization of Future Discourses at the Faculty of Applied Social Sciences at Munich University of AppliedSciences.


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Sustainable Living and Business

  • Book Subtitle: Management of Social Innovations as a Shaping of Social Transformation

  • Editors: Hans-Werner Franz, Gerald Beck, Diego Compagna, Peter Dürr, Wolfgang Gehra, Martina Wegner

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-41835-9

  • Publisher: Springer Wiesbaden

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, part of Springer Nature 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-658-41834-2Published: 05 January 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-658-41835-9Published: 04 January 2024

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 346

  • Topics: Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology, Science and Technology Studies

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