Purpose

Society has changed forever as a result of coronavirus (covid-19) with the new normal referring to lifestyle changes including social distancing and working from home. The purpose of this article is to understand how covid-19 has resulted in increased levels of social value co-creation aimed at producing innovative benefits to society.

Design/methodology/approach

A commentary is provided on crisis management from a social entrepreneurship perspective with the goal of understanding the social benefits of collective action resulting from the covid-19 pandemic. This approach offers a novel way to understand the social policy implications derived from the covid-19 crisis.

Findings

The article highlights how there has been an increased emphasis on social policy focussing on finding entrepreneurial ways to handle the covid-19 crisis that incorporates some degree of value co-creation. Examples from seed plant initiatives and reducing homelessness in times of crisis are discussed as a way to explain social value co-creation. Moreover, the different ways countries have responded to the covid-19 crisis are stated as a way to understand contextual differences in global society.

Originality/value

This article is amongst the first to focus on the link between covid-19 and social entrepreneurship from a value co-creation perspective thereby enabling a new way of thinking about the crisis from a social policy perspective. This will provide a theoretical basis from which to understand social policy differences regarding the covid-19 crisis.

中文翻译：

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冠状病毒（covid-19）与社会价值共创

目的

由于冠状病毒（covid-19），社会发生了永远的变化，新常态指的是生活方式的改变，包括社交距离和在家工作。本文的目的是了解 covid-19 如何提高旨在为社会创造创新效益的社会价值共创水平。

设计/方法/方法

从社会企业家的角度提供了关于危机管理的评论，目的是了解由 covid-19 大流行引起的集体行动的社会效益。这种方法提供了一种新的方式来理解 covid-19 危机带来的社会政策影响。

发现

这篇文章强调了如何越来越重视社会政策，重点是寻找解决covid-19危机的创业方法，其中包含一定程度的价值共同创造。讨论了种子植物倡议和在危机时期减少无家可归的例子，作为解释社会价值共同创造的一种方式。此外，各国应对 covid-19 危机的不同方式被认为是理解全球社会背景差异的一种方式。

原创性/价值

本文是最早从价值共创的角度关注 covid-19 与社会企业家精神之间联系的文章之一，从而为从社会政策的角度思考危机提供了一种新的方式。这将为理解有关 covid-19 危机的社会政策差异提供理论基础。