Disruptive innovation for social change.

By Clayton M. Christensen, Heiner Baumann, R. Ruggles, T. M. Sadtler. Harvard Business Review, 2006

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Crafting Sustainable Development Solutions: Frugal Innovations of Grassroots Entrepreneurs (2016, background): “, blowback [34] and reverse [19] innovations and the opportunity to leverage them to overcome the limits of saturated and resource-intensive markets in developed economies [35–38].”
From post-productionism to reflexive governance: Contested transitions in securing more sustainable food futures (2013, background): “It is equally possible for a transition to be more influenced by landscape pressures in a crisis-led change, or for it to be influenced from the micro-level through some form of disruptive innovation (Christensen et al., 2006).”
How Frugal Innovation Promotes Social Sustainability (2016, background): “Frugal innovation as a term can act as an integrating mechanism to bring various concepts like disruptive innovation [22,23] lean innovation [24], BOP [25] jugaad innovation [26], grassroot innovations [27] and inclusive innovations [28] under one umbrella [29].”
Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Environmental Sustainability: A Resource Base and Framework for IT-Enabled Business Transformation (2011, background): “…(Kaplan and Norton 1992) Organizational Ecology/Env Figge et al. 2002 Catalytic innovation model for social-sector organizations Societal Management Christensen et al. 2006 Championing Individuals and Groups Management Andersson and Bateman 2000 Control theory, escalation of commitment, goal…”
The Transformation of Higher Education After the COVID Disruption: Emerging Challenges in an Online Learning Scenario (2021, background): “Disruptive innovations meet the needs of existing customers as well as the needs of currently available services (Christensen et al., 2006).”
On the diffusion of toilets as bottom of the pyramid innovation: Lessons from sanitation entrepreneurs (2012, background): “• Confirm that there is an unmet or underserved need for which a technological solution can help [17,18].”
Research and development from the bottom up - introduction of terminologies for new product development in emerging markets (2014, background): “, Reena 2009; Saraf 2009; Govindarajan and Trimble 2005; Christensen et al. 2004). Considering science, however, academic papers are rare which investigate innovations in/from emerging markets. Though, the new approaches from emerging markets are able to contribute remarkably to theory, i.e., to the”
Making a Difference Strategies for Scaling Social Innovation for Greater Impact (2010, background): “When a social innovation has a broad or durable impact, it will be disruptive and catalytic (Christensen et al., 2006); it will challenge the social system and social institutions that govern people’s conduct by affecting the fundamental distribution of power and resources, and may change the basic…”
Navigating the Back Loop: Fostering Social Innovation and Transformation in Ecosystem Management (2010, background): “Radical innovation involves the development and adoption of new combinations of ideas, products, or processes that challenge or disrupt the broader institutional framework, whether it is social, cultural, political, or economic (Christensen et al. 2006).”
Five Configurations for Scaling Up Social Innovation (2014, background): “In line with Christensen et al. (2006), we define social innovation as a complex process of introducing new products, processes or programs that profoundly change the basic routines, resource and authority flows, or beliefs of the social system in which the innovation occurs.”
Tipping Toward Sustainability: Emerging Pathways of Transformation (2011, background): “…individuals and small groups, where invention originates and where the early source of support for ‘‘disruptive’’ or ‘‘catalytic’’ innovation may be found (Christensen et al. 2006), we must foster mechanisms and agency that can connect a healthy supply of invention, with the institutional…”