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Frugal innovation

About: Frugal innovation is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 472 publications have been published within this topic receiving 9290 citations.

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13 Nov 2019
TL;DR: The breakthrough possibility frontier (BPF) model as discussed by the authors integrates two aspects of leadership: innovation quality (frugal innovation) and leadership competency (transformational leadership), and the results imply the development of an integrated institutional framework for innovation.
Abstract: This paper’s main thesis is that frugal innovation and transformational leadership offer additional sources of growth. Our main contribution is the proposal of what we refer to as the breakthrough possibility frontier (BPF) model, which integrates two aspects of leadership: innovation quality (frugal innovation) and leadership competency (transformational leadership). We test the BPF model on two groups of respondents, one group consisting of university students who had never been formal leaders and the other formal leaders who had office experience. The BPF analysis suggests that transformational leadership is a game changer, required for breakthroughs. Transformational leadership is key to encouraging innovation quality and leadership competency and, we argue, to facilitating new sources of growth. Our results imply the development of an integrated institutional framework for innovation. We believe that innovative leadership development programs that can be easily implemented and replicated in other regions are needed to develop transformational leadership competencies.

16 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors draw on social geography, affect studies, and postcolonial media studies to analyse value creation in the Indian mobile phone market, specifically in the deployment of an Indian form of workaround called 'jugaad' and identify this market as a collection of human-technical assemblages that are marketed through a rhetoric of frugal innovation.
Abstract: Previous studies have identified affect as constitutive of and woven into everyday life. Less work has focused on how affect is designed and produced through consumer services and goods to modulate human–technical assemblages for commercial and economic ends. In this paper, I draw on social geography, affect studies, and postcolonial media studies to analyse value creation in the Indian mobile phone market, specifically in the deployment of an Indian form of workaround called ‘jugaad’. Following nonrepresentational analyses of digital practices, I identify this market as a collection of human–technical assemblages that are marketed through a rhetoric of frugal innovation or jugaad. Moving through examples from fieldnotes, case studies, and reports, the analysis of the affective atmospheres of Indian mobile phone marketing communications appraises televised Bharti Airtel adverts. Findings of this analysis suggest affect has spatial, temporal, and economic dimensions, as well as being embedded in everyday e...

16 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, a conceptual model has been developed to determine the antecedents and consequences of frugal innovation and responsible innovation of Asian organizations with consideration of the extant literature and theories such as dynamic capability view and neo-institutional theory.
Abstract: Organizations ensure responsible innovation through collaborative management. Asian organizations adopt resource-constrained innovation, being one form of frugal innovation, and responsible innovation. Also, Asian organizations are influenced by culture, such as jugaad, on developing innovation capability. Few research studies have focused on the antecedents and consequences of resource-constrained innovation and responsible innovation from Asian organizations’ capability and culture perspective. With this background, the purpose of this study is to determine the antecedents and consequences of frugal innovation and responsible innovation of Asian organizations. With consideration of the extant literature and theories such as dynamic capability view and neo-institutional theory, a conceptual model has been developed. The conceptual model has been validated using partial least squares structural equation modeling technique with the help of survey data collected from Asian countries. The research study finds that knowledge management capability, bricolage capability, and collaborative capability impact organizations’ resource-constrained innovation and responsible innovation. Also, the study finds that jugaad culture has a significant impact on innovation and organization performance.

16 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate how solutions developed from the bottom-up in some of the most challenging public service environments can better meet the needs of citizens, and investigate a range of new perspectives applied to services by over 40 social enterprises in India.
Abstract: Over the last 60 years, innovation and improvements in India's public services have frequently emerged in the absence of state intervention or involvement. Social enterprises have stepped in to address the challenges where the government has failed. As a consequence, radical new perspectives have developed that might not have emerged if governments had imposed top-down initiatives adopted from the West. "Frugal Innovation" is the idiom applied to this sweeping revolution in public service design and delivery. The term is used in India and other developing economies to describe innovation that minimises costs by creating frugal solutions to deliver improved or previously non-existent public services. Frugal innovation has given more people access to a wider range of services. This paper provides insights into how solutions developed from the bottom-up in some of the most challenging public service environments can better meet the needs of citizens. It investigates a range of new perspectives applied to services by over 40 social enterprises in India. It challenges the notion that uniformity in delivering public services driven by a top-down centralist ideology translates into good value for money.

15 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyze how digital makers have taken part in R&D processes to find solutions to the problems created by an exogenous and unexpected sanitary problem through an in-depth case study, they provide insights on if and how frugal approach to innovation is adapt to cope with the extraordinary pressure coming from event like the COVID-19.
Abstract: COVID-19 has been the most important pandemic that hit the world in the last century An overwhelming number of initiatives aimed to save lives and protect humanity came out especially at the beginning of the health crisis, following an outside the box approach to address relevant R&D problems Digital makers, not surprisingly, have been part of the game Being masters in using digital technologies for customized products, and being strategically fitted to cope with the imperative to be fast, many of the players on the front line to fight the pandemic have looked at them as the ‘providers next to the door’ able to offer fast solutions to critical problems Based on these premises and adopting frugal innovation as theoretical base, the aim of the study is to analyze how digital makers have taken part in R&D processes to find solutions to the problems created by an exogenous and unexpected sanitary problem Through an in-depth case study, we provide insights on if and how frugal approach to innovation is adapt to cope with the extraordinary pressure coming from event like the COVID-19 The results of the study highlight the power of connecting frugal innovation principles, agile mindset of makers and open innovation strategies in providing effective solutions on a local scale and eventually exploit their potential global impact Furthermore, we highlight implications and pathways for future researches © 2021 RADMA and John Wiley & Sons Ltd

15 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
202172
202050
201956
201859
201754
201650