香港社会企业的发展经验

Unleashing Social Innovation for Social Economy:
Experience of Social Enterprise Development in Hong Kong
August 2011

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17525098.2011.618446

Abstract

This paper reflects on the emergence and growth of social enterprises in Hong Kong via the theoretical lens of social innovation. Two distinct and yet complementary usages of the term in the fields of local/urban governance and social entrepreneurship are employed to make sense of the development of social enterprises in the past decade. By reviewing the development trajectories and the organizational practices of five local social enterprise cases, the twofold meanings of social innovation as new modalities of service governance and key components in the practice of social entrepreneurship are delineated, which are found applicable to the policy discourse in Hong Kong. The experience of social enterprise development suggests that the idea of social innovation would likely play an important role in building and sustaining the growth of the social economy.

释放社会创新推动社会经济：
香港社会企业的发展经验

本文以社会创新作为理论视角思考香港社会企业的起源与发展。社会创新这用词同时被「地方治理」与「社会创业精神」两个研究领域所引用，文章套用这两个相异但概念互补的词汇，以分析社会企业在过去十年间的发展。通过观察五个本地社会企业个案的发展轨迹及组织实践，文章描述并确认社会创新所包含的双重意涵—包括服务治理的新范式以及作为社创精神实践的关键组成部分—皆有助我们了解香港的政策论述。社会企业的发展经验，显示社会创新这概念，极可能在社会经济的形成和持续发展上，担当重要的角色。

Key Words: social innovation; social enterprise; social economy; local governance; Hong Kong