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Social Innovation (si) is a concept characterized by its multiple definitions and characteristics, arising from an increase in the interest of researchers on the subject. This denotes that SI constitutes a field under construction that, according to various authors, requires studies carried out from different disciplines and approaches that rescue the diversities and realities involved in this issue. Precisely, Organizational Studies (eo) is a transdisciplinary field that studies the realities experienced in organizations and in organizational processes, based on various theoretical contributions and study currents. Given this, the objective of the work is to reflect on the theoretical contributions that the eo offer and why they may be relevant to deepen the study of SI. The main contribution of the work is that some specific contributions of the field are rescued: organizing or organized, power and strategic analysis, ambiguity and organized anarchies, new institutionalism, learning and knowledge in organizations, organizational change, and anthropology of organizations. From the explanation of each one, it is argued how they can contribute to the SI analysis. In the end, it is concluded that the topics discussed give rise to a future research agenda. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An operational language is introduced in the context of organizational studies, so that certain concepts such as system, individual-actor, result, function, balance, chaos, complexity, are formalized in order to establish similarities or equivalences with concepts of science physical-mathematical, in the search for a common language that bridges store that allow rigorous dialogue between a rich sector of physicalmathematical sciences and the sector of social studies focused on organizations, and also allows to develop a mathematical model that be useful in organizational analysis, particularly applied to the field of public universities in Mexico. Regarding organizational studies, we are located within the scope of the new sociological institutionalism and more specifically in the theories of ambiguity and loosely coupled systems, which we consider as the appropriate approach for the study of public universities in Mexico. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The electoral victory of Hugo Chávez in 1998 became an important issue for the Latin American social sciences. Indeed, the very idea of being given such a major change in Venezuelan politics encouraged a number of perspectives on a process that has drawn the attention of many scholars and analysts of our reality. In 1999, the majority of Venezuelan electors gave a blank check to an electoral alliance that promised to change a nation which at that time took its toll to a democratic period which failed to adapt to a new age. Thus, we have at least three major areas for academic inquiry: First of all, the discussion about the scope of that change. Second, the discussion of the causes of that change, in terms of regarded Venezuela as a case sui-generis in comparative politics. And third, the analysis of the role played by the international variable in shaping that change. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]