SOCIAL INNOVATION: A SCALE DEVELOPMENT STUDY

Yıl 2014, Cilt: 32 Sayı: 1, 165 - 190, 30.06.2014

Duygu Seçkin Halaç Hakan Eren Çağrı Bulut

https://doi.org/10.17065/huiibf.48390

Cited By: 3

Öz

Social Innovation: A Scale Development Study Social innovation is defined as being new ideas or solution proposals to latent needs of humans in order to increase life standards and wealth. The concept has started to attract academicians’ attentions, especially after 1990s. The aim of this study was to develop a valid and reliable individual level social innovation instrument which is suitable to Turkish culture and to contribute especially to management literature. In this context, survey method was used and a comprehensive field study was designed with the participation of senior students from different faculties of universities in different geographical and socioeconomic regions. According to the findings, a reliable and valid social innovativeness scale with eight items was employed.

Anahtar Kelimeler

Social innovation, social innovativeness, scale development, university students, Turkey

SOSYAL YENİLİKÇİLİK: BİR ÖLÇEK GELİŞTİRME ÇALIŞMASI

Öz

Özellikle 1990’dan sonra bilimsel çalısmaların yogunlastıgı sosyal yenilikçilik kavramı insanların hayat standartlarını ve refahlarını yükseltebilmek, daha önce karsılanmamıs ihtiyaçlara çözüm önerileri ya da yeni fikirler sunabilmek olarak tanımlanmaktadır. Bu çalısmanın amacı, Türk kültürüne uygun, birey düzeyinde geçerli ve güvenilir bir sosyal yenilikçilik ölçeginin gelistirilerek özellikle Yönetim yazınına kazandırılmasıdır. Bu dogrultuda, anket yönteminin kullanıldıgı, farklı cografi ve sosyo-ekonomik bölgelerden üniversitelerin farklı fakültelerinden son sınıf ögrencilerinin katıldıgı bir saha çalısması tasarlanmıstır. Yapılan analizler sonucu tek boyutlu, sekiz maddeden olusan geçerli ve güvenilir bireysel sosyal yenilikçilik egilimini ölçen bir ölçek

gelistirilmistir.

Anahtar Kelimeler

Sosyal yenilikçilik, sosyal inovasyon, sosyal yenilik, ölçek geliştirme, üniversite öğrencileri, Türkiye

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