What concrete contributions can social innovations make to the transition to forms of sustainable social living and economic activity? And what contributions can the social sciences make to achieve this? These questions are in the focus of this book. Thus, on the one hand, it is about specific 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 can be included in the social responsibility for the success of such socially innovative processes.

The editors

Hans-Werner Franz, Freelance Consultant for the Quality of Organizations
Gerald Beck, Professor of Social Innovation and Organizational Development at Munich University of Applied Sciences
Diego Compagna, Professor of Theories of Social Transformation at Munich University of Applied Sciences
Peter Dürr, Professor of Knowledge and Communication Management at Munich University of Applied Sciences
Wolfgang Gehra, Professor of Social Management and Public Relations at Munich University of Applied Sciences
Martina Wegner, Professor for the Organization of Future Discourses at Munich University of Applied Sciences

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.