"To date, books on low-cost or 'frugal innovation' have been practitioner-oriented and largely based on anecdotal evidence. This ground-breaking book provides a scholarly understanding of frugal innovation, drawing on empirical research. The resulting theoretical framework provides a basis from...

The impact of clusters on entrepreneurship has not been adequately and formally substantiated through empirical analysis. This dissertation looks at the effect of clusters on entrepreneurship at the regional level in the United Kingdom and a comparison is made with a similar study already...

The Oxford Scenarios Programme (OSP) is an executive education programme at the Saïd Business School of the University of Oxford that uses ‘reflective practice’ (Schön 1983) to help individuals alone and in groups learn by doing and reflecting. Since 2007 this experiential learning...

This working paper explores research on the rise and operations of donation-based crowdfunding platforms and the early work on system builders, in order to develop actionable insights to build a suite of crowdfunding solutions relevant to address the funding challenges to implement on the United...

Recent network arguments advance theory on inequality and comparative advantage by using structural autonomy to investigate the effects of social capital on performance. These network approaches update the theory and methodology of centrality analysis, but at the same time are subject to...

This paper develops organizational field approaches to understand industry evolution. We address issues of how state activities, collective action, and institutional entrepreneurship shape competitive space and facilitate industry formation in the online database services industry. We test...

Curbside recycling programs grew fivefold betweeen 1988 and 1995, yet recycling as practical activity is contested on both ecological and economic criteria. This paper develops arguments at the intersection of organizational and social movements analysis to develop understanding of how broader...

This work brings together empirical research and thematic commentaries which chart out research directions for politically-inflected studies of organizational and institutional change. The chapters give practical voice to the theoretical questions and research designs of an emerging agenda for...

Although the concept of frugal innovation is gaining popularity in both practitioner and academic discourse, there is no theoretically embedded definition and there exist few if any conceptual models to base future research on. We fulfil both gaps by analyzing the concept of ‘frugality' and...