Desenvolvimento de capacidades coletivas em inovações sociais: análise da Rede Paraibana de Bancos Comunitários.

Abstract

This work has the following guiding question: "How are collective capabilities developed in social innovation initiatives?" To explore this problem, a qualitative study was carried out with different methodological phases: a systematic review of the literature, a theoretical essay with a framework proposal, and a study of multiple cases, through three articles. The first article carried out a systematic review on the congruence between social innovation and the Capabilities Approach approach by Amartya Sen (1990, 2001), based on emblematic studies elected by the number of citations, year of publication, and impact factor. The second article, inspired by the 3C model for social innovations led by Solava Ibrahim (2017), proposed a framework called Ciclo 5C. From the perspective of human capabilities, this theoretical construction discusses the categories provided by the 3C model for the development of social innovations from its bottom-up, “conscientization”, “conciliation” and “collaboration”, and adds the categories “confluence” and “capital”, supported by the seminal concepts of capital of Bourdieu (1986) and social skill of Fligstein (2007), in order to overcome the limitations of the previous model and allow the advance of the theme. Finally, article 3 performs an analysis of this framework with the Paraibana Network of Community Development Banks (BCD), through social actors from the banks Jardim Botânico (João Pessoa/PB), Cinco Lagoa (Remígio/PB), Lagoa (Lagoa de Dentro/PB) and Maringá (Pombal/PB), through data triangulation (literature review, semi-structured interviews and documentary research) and content analysis. Results show that the congruence addressed allows the theoretical advance of social innovation in three emphases: actors, processes, and actions of public policy and citizenship. It also promotes the development of collective capacities in social innovations, a process evidenced by the community development banks in Paraíba.