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Product Innovation in Resource-Poor Environments: Three Research Streams†
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The authors explored the role and relevance of resource scarcity in product innovation and suggested that creative approaches to scarcity may contribute to knowledge enrichment of product innovation theory and practice in resource-poor contexts.About:
This article is published in Journal of Product Innovation Management.The article was published on 2014-03-01. It has received 174 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Product innovation & Innovation management.read more
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What is frugal innovation? Three defining criteria
Timo Weyrauch,Cornelius Herstatt +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors define three criteria for frugal innovation: substantial cost reduction, concentration on core functionalities, and optimised performance level, based on the results of a literature review and interviews with 45 managers from companies and researchers from different research institutes.
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Business models for sustainable innovation – an empirical analysis of frugal products and services
TL;DR: In this article, the relationship between frugal and reverse innovation and sustainability remains largely unexplored in the literature, and the authors aim to fill in this gap and answer the research question: How can frugaling and reverse innovations strengthen sustainable development, and how can business models in this context be systemized and described? Employing a multiple case study design, a total of 59 frugual products and services were investigated from a business models and sustainability strategy perspective from June 2014 until June 2015.
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A Systematic Literature Review of Constraint-Based Innovations: State of the Art and Future Perspectives
TL;DR: This study attempts to systematically organize and synthesize the research on innovation approaches originated in, for or from emerging markets, and finds growing standardization in terminology usage and increasing emphasis on “bottom-up” and structured innovation approaches.
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Frugal innovation: A review and research agenda
TL;DR: A systematic research approach was applied in this paper to synthesize the frugal innovation literature, and 101 relevant articles from 11 publication databases were extracted from a standard research review protocol.
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Users as innovators in developing countries: The global sources of innovation and diffusion in mobile banking services
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the extent to which users in developing countries innovate, the factors that enable these innovations and whether they are meaningful on a global stage, and concluded that at least 50% of all mobile financial services were pioneered by users, approximately 45% by producers, and the remaining were jointly developed by users and producers.
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The Art of Continuous Change: Linking Complexity Theory and Time-Paced Evolution in Relentlessly Shifting Organizations
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Product development: past research, present findings, and future directions
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors organize the product development literature into three streams of research: product development as rational plan, communication web, and disciplined problem solving, and synthesize research findings into a model of factors affecting the success of product development.
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Threat-rigidity effects in organizational behavior: A multilevel analysis.
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Creating Something from Nothing: Resource Construction through Entrepreneurial Bricolage:
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TL;DR: In this paper, a field study of 29 resource-constrained firms that varied dramatically in their responses to similar objective environments is used to examine the process by which entrepreneurs in resource-poor environments were able to render unique services by recombining elements at hand for new purposes that challenged institutional definitions and limits.
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