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June 27, 2026Innovation

‘Mission: possible’: Empowerment through social-symbolic social innovation

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HNHung M. NguyenRHRichard Hazenberg

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Qualitative research demonstrates how social innovation empowers communities via community midwives, highlighting institutional challenges and solutions.

Key Points

  • This article aims to understand how social innovators navigate institutional and socio-cultural paradoxes to empower communities through social innovation.
  • Qualitative research focusing on the case study of the ‘MSI Ladies’ initiative.
  • Analysis of how community midwives deliver sexual and reproductive healthcare in remote regions.
  • Theoretical framework utilizing social-symbolic work theory.
  • Community midwives act as boundary spanners, enabling access to vital healthcare services for underprivileged women.
  • Social-symbolic social innovators co-create change by identifying shared identities and goals despite institutional challenges.
  • State actors can effectively support social innovation by legitimizing local intermediaries.

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Nguyen et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a3f6972aea7db3c195404c0https://doi.org/10.1080/14479338.2026.2684536
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