Social Innovation to Sustain Rural Communities: Overcoming Institutional Challenges in Serbia
Summary. Social innovations in rural Serbia address poverty, inequality, and migration despite institutional obstacles like weak law enforcement, poor infrastructure, and low trust. The study of nine rural initiatives reveals that social innovators operate through subsistence, idealistic, or lifestyle goals, creating new social values. Solutions to institutional gaps include developing context-specific organizations, strengthening legal frameworks, and designing innovative financing mechanisms.
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Živojinović, I., Ludvig, A., & Hogl, K.. (2019). Social Innovation to Sustain Rural Communities: Overcoming Institutional Challenges in Serbia. Sustainability. https://doi.org/10.3390/su11247248
Živojinović, Ivana, et al. “Social Innovation to Sustain Rural Communities: Overcoming Institutional Challenges in Serbia.” Sustainability, 2019. https://doi.org/10.3390/su11247248.
Živojinović, Ivana, Alice Ludvig, and Karl Hogl. 2019. “Social Innovation to Sustain Rural Communities: Overcoming Institutional Challenges in Serbia.” Sustainability. https://doi.org/10.3390/su11247248.
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author = {Ivana Živojinović and Alice Ludvig and Karl Hogl},
journal = {Sustainability},
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- DOI
- 10.3390/su11247248
- Countries
- Serbia
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- Europe
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- entrepreneurship, innovation-theory, regional-innovation-systems
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- 2026-04-28