Abstract This paper wants to shed light on organizational factors as conditions for the impact of academic research in social sciences. Organizations play a role as enablers of social impact, providing conditions that improve the probability of impacting on society. We try to ascertain whether this role is supported and stimulated through institutional entrepreneurship, changing the institutions’ organizational features, ideas, and beliefs to increase productive interactions and knowledge translation. Our work centres on exploring the actors’ social position and their ability to introduce changes that are likely to permanently engage the organizations in the pursuit of social impact and possibly support it in the long run. The empirical basis consists of three case studies about research projects in the social sciences, which brought together academic researchers from different universities and stakeholders. The analysis demonstrates that understanding impact requires adopting a broader perspective, considering also the transformations emerging at the organizational level.

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促成社会影响的因素：机构创业在社会科学研究中的重要性

摘要 本文希望阐明组织因素是学术研究对社会科学产生影响的条件。组织作为社会影响的推动者发挥着作用，提供了提高对社会产生影响的可能性的条件。我们试图确定这一角色是否通过机构创业得到支持和激励，改变机构的组织特征、想法和信念，以增加富有成效的互动和知识转化。我们的工作重点是探索参与者的社会地位和他们引入变革的能力，这些变革可能使组织永久参与追求社会影响并可能长期支持它。实证基础包括三个关于社会科学研究项目的案例研究，它汇集了来自不同大学和利益相关者的学术研究人员。分析表明，理解影响需要采用更广泛的视角，同时还要考虑组织层面出现的转变。