TY  - UNPD
A1  - Terstriep, Judith
A1  - Rehfeld, Dieter
T1  - Middle-Range Theorising - Bridging Micro- and Meso-Level
T2  - SIMPACT Working Paper
N2  - Solutions to empower and (re-)engage vulnerable and marginalised populations to unfold their hidden potential allowing them to fully participate the social, economic, cultural and political life, necessarily involve institutional change. This in turn necessitates understanding the processes and mechanisms by which social innovations lead to in-stitutional change. Considering the specific nature of social innova-tions as interactive, generative and contextualised phenomena while maintaining that many practices at the micro-level can add up to patterns and regularities at the macro-level, middle-range theorising (MRT) is proposed as an appropriate method to theoreti-cally underpin and substantiate theoretical advancements towards a multidisciplinary perspective on the economic dimensions of social innovation, identifying the direction of future empirical inquiries.
KW  - social innovation
KW  - Middle-range Theory
KW  - theorising
Y1  - 2016
UR  - https://whge.opus.hbz-nrw.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/660
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hbz:1010-opus4-6606
VL  - 2015
IS  - 1
ER  -