Purpose: Social entrepreneurship (SE) is a complex phenomenon designed to resolve numerous societal challenges while remaining economically viable. However, how social entrepreneurs in developing countries have deployed digital technologies to address communal challenges during the Covid-19 crisis is largely undocumented. This research examines social entrepreneurs' adoption of digital technologies, the multi-level organisational conditions, and associated innovative outcomes of engaging digital technologies.Design/methodology/approach: Based on the organisational resilience theoretical framework, this research employs a qualitative methodology, comprising 38 semi-structured interviews with Nigerian SE firms, to investigate social entrepreneurs' engagement with digital technologies.Findings: The study’s findings reveal 19 pathways through which digital technologies enabled organisational resilience outcomes by Nigerian SE firms during the Covid-19 pandemic. This allows the authors to show, via a 3 × 3 matrix, how social entrepreneurs deploy digital technologies to build proximate, dynamic, and continuous resilience in a weak institutional context.Originality/value: The study’s findings enables the authors to advance the SE – digital technologies – resilience scholarship in a developing economy.

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the perspectives and expectations of the stakeholders involved in this diffusion process, with the objective of assessing Nigeria's position along the innovation diffusion process. Although a national policy for the adoption of the technology has been published recently. There is very scant literature on the “perspectives of key stakeholders” on blockchain adoption. This paper attempts to address that gap by gathering insights through the views of various stakeholders involved in the innovation-decision process, including public officials, vendors, end users, and consultants, with the aid of interviews. With an initial exploratory study using the theoretical frameworks of Social Construction of Technology (SCOT) and Innovation Diffusion Theory, results reveal that the adoption of blockchain technology for governance is at the decision phase. Private developers exhibit enthusiasm and preparedness for blockchain integration, as against mild reservations within governmental bodies and financial institutions, primarily concerning security, scalability, and regulatory frameworks. The paper suggests that future research endeavours to embrace complementary methodologies and cross-sectoral analyses, to identify sector-specific challenges in the adoption of blockchain technology

Purpose: Innovation is a constant state of affairs, in order for development to continue. However, there is also a need to ensure that innovations are sustainable. To this end, the paper examines the challenges that may hinder the achievement of sustainable social innovation in Nigeria and explores possible solutions and opportunities for development. Design/Methodology/Approach: The author conducted normative research that examined existing research with the aim of providing solutions to a research area that is fraught with challenges and also currently under researched. Research was also conducted for documents and research from previous studies which were subsequently analysed to provide suggested solutions. Findings: At over 200 million inhabitants, Nigeria is beset with many challenges such as insurgency, deforestation, poverty, food-shortages, limited access to healthcare and so on. Fittingly, there have been some social innovations that have tried to address some of the aforementioned issues with varying levels of success. However, so far, such initiatives have not delivered change on a large scale. Although there is evidence that there are SI activities in Nigeria, a recurring theme through the literature is the fact that it is difficult to measure the impact of social innovations and there are very limited attempts at documenting and monitoring the outcomes. Research, practical & social implications: This research indicates the need for collaboration, knowledge sharing, in order to contribute effectively to the development and deployment of Social Innovations in Nigeria. Awareness is also a challenge that was raised and is an opportunity for further development. Originality/Value: It is imperative to ensure that social innovations are sustainable particularly where they are direly needed. The sustainability of such innovations is doubtlessly important to ensure that the aim of establishing such initiatives is not thwarted. There is limited academic coverage of social innovations and their impact in developing countries and it is hoped that the various bodies involved in social innovations in such areas will recognise the need for collaboration, knowledge sharing and development of expertise for sustainable social innovation.