... on incremental rather than radical innovation and the power of stories to persuade others to engage with their vision for creating social value through construction. Originality/value Contributing new insights to the emerging “practice theme” in social procurement research, this paper provides important...

... definition and provision for social value as an evaluation criterion, culminating in the absence of a definition in the Act. This paper elicits the conception and understanding of social value from stakeholders in the Ghanaian construction industry. Design/methodology/approach The study adopted...

... Social value Refugees Multi- and inter-disciplinarity (acknowledging the complexity of the subject matter involving “refugees”); Bottom-up approaches (recognising refugees as actors and agents); Advocacy and scholarship (recognising the reciprocal position and inherent relation between...

.... Originality/value This research contributes new insights to the emerging but embryonic body of research into construction social procurement by demonstrating the value of emerging theories of social procurement, social value, cross-sector collaboration and intermediation in enhancing our currently limited...