Open AccessBook
From Jugaad to Systematic Innovation: The Challenge for India
Reads0
Chats0
About:
The article was published on 2010-12-05 and is currently open access. It has received 38 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Jugaad.read more
Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Resource-constrained product development: Implications for green marketing and green supply chains
TL;DR: The authors argue that resource-constrained product development approaches (alternatively labeled jugaad) that are observed in emerging countries such as China and India have the potential to change the traditional models of green product development and suggest that these practices have sustainability and supply chain benefits.
Journal ArticleDOI
How disruptive is frugal
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors have formalized the frugal-innovation process based on examples covered in this effort and also examined their disruptiveness vis-a-vis other innovations.
Journal ArticleDOI
Innovation and entrepreneurship in India: Understanding jugaad
Jaideep Prabhu,Sanjay Jain +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors use the term jugaad to describe the frugal, flexible, and inclusive approach to innovation and entrepreneurship emerging from India, and identify different types of organizations that engage in this approach and elucidate their abilities or lack thereof to undertake such innovation.
Journal ArticleDOI
Crafting Sustainable Development Solutions: Frugal Innovations of Grassroots Entrepreneurs
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the phenomenon where resource scarce entrepreneurs craft solutions that are environmental friendly, with low overall ownership costs, and use locally available material, and argued that the grassroots phenomenon can be fruitfully exploited to achieve the new Sustainable Development Goals proposed by the UN as a post-2015 strategy for the future of global governance.
Journal ArticleDOI
Jugaad as Systemic Risk and Disruptive Innovation in India
Abstract: Jugaad is the latest/trend in management and business reports of India's awakening. The term refers to the widespread practice in rural India of jury-rigging and customizing vehicles using only available resources and know-how. While the practice is often accompanied by indigence and corruption in traditional interpretations, the notion of jugaad has excited many commentators on India's emergence into the global economy in its promise of an inimitable Indian work ethic that defies traditional associations of otherworldliness and indolence – widely reported as inherent in India's society and culture. Jugaad has been identified across India's economy in the inventiveness of call-centre workers, the creativity of global transnational elites, and in the innovativeness of Indian product designs. The term has seen an unprecedented growth in popularity and is now proffered as a tool for development and a robust solution to global recession. Jugaad is now part of a wider method for working within resource constra...