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Item Collaborative Leadership in Social Innovation: A Leadership Framework for Tackling Wicked Public Challenges(2023-11) Freije, Brenda Hacker; Haberski, Raymond J., Jr.; Blomquist, William A.; Craig, David M.; Hong, YoungbokIn today’s world, we regularly hear about and experience intractable, systemic social problems that seem to defy solutions. How do we engage in systems change to address them? What processes can help us deal more effectively with them? It is not enough to say we need to change their systems. We need to know how to change them and lead others in the work. This dissertation explores how leadership teams and organizations can tackle wicked public challenges by working collaboratively with stakeholders through a process of trying to understand the challenge and designing strategies to influence systems change. I offer a Leadership Framework for these efforts that puts the collaborative leader in the role of expert intermediary responsible for seven Core Functions within the Leadership Framework. As expert intermediary, the collaborative leader facilitates vision-informed and values-driven decision-making and draws on a range of leadership and problemsolving approaches with four priorities: (1) to provide a systems view and understanding of the challenge, (2) to facilitate collaborative engagement and learning from a wide range of stakeholders, (3) to consider in the design and implementation of strategies and solutions the interconnections between economic growth, social inclusion, and environmental protection in human flourishing, and (4) to recognize that values run through it all. I refer to the Leadership Framework and its process as Collaborative Leadership in Social Innovation. I lay out the Leadership Framework as a concept map showing the Core Functions arranged along a path with Key Actions for each Core Function and other foundational components to the path. Learning is the glue that holds the Leadership Framework together and a key output. The Leadership Framework is designed to improve decision-making about wicked public challenges by ensuring sufficient time is dedicated to the Core Functions that precede the design and implementation of strategies and solutions. Following the Leadership Framework reduces the chances that solutions will lead to unintended results, miss opportunities, or focus on solving smaller problems in siloes that get at symptoms but rarely the heart of a challenge.Item Ending Book Hunger: Social Publishing and the Power of Mission-Driven Innovation(Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, 2015) Shaver, LeaAround the world, billions of people find that books are too expensive, too difficult to find, or are simply not being published in the languages that they speak. The problem of “book hunger” is pervasive across the developing world, and for lower-income adults and children in the United States. This market failure comes at an enormous social cost. The lack of affordable and appropriate reading material is holding back education as a path out of poverty. Fortunately, a solution exists. This book examines the growing sector of “social publishing,” an emerging non-profit sector driven by the belief that all people should enjoy opportunities to read, regardless of their income or native language. This book offers a descriptively rich, accessible account of the inspiring world of social publishing, drawing upon extensive interviews with organizational leaders driving the evolution of this emerging sector. Case studies of organizations both in the United States and abroad explore the many challenges social publishers face – including geographic, cost, and language barriers – and the innovative solutions they are developing to forge a new business model for low-cost, multilingual, truly multicultural publishing. The book’s central objectives are to document the emerging practices of social publishers, to generate insight about what makes their efforts successful or unsuccessful, and to derive broader lessons from this particular case study of social innovation. A key theme of this research is the role of social mission in driving business model innovation. To deliver books that are appropriate, attractive, and affordable to neglected readerships, social publishers cannot simply imitate the established business models of for-profit publishers. Instead, they are forced to innovate radically different strategies in the areas of content acquisition, production, and marketing. These innovations include free-to-the-reader pricing, digital distribution, open licensing, and distributed authorship. A full appreciation of these innovative business models for social publishing is central to solving the problem of book hunger sustainably and at scale. More broadly, understanding the phenomenon of “mission-driven innovation” can also inform other initiatives in philanthropy, nonprofit management, social innovation, public policy, and corporate social responsibility.