Innovation and entrepreneurship in India: understanding jugaad
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Publication Date
2015-12Journal Title
Asia Pacific Journal of Management
ISSN
0217-4561
Volume
32
Issue
4
Pages
843-868
Language
English
Type
Article
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Prabhu, J., & Jain, S. (2015). Innovation and entrepreneurship in India: understanding jugaad. Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 32 (4), 843-868. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10490-015-9445-9
Abstract
In this paper, we use the term jugaad to describe the frugal, flexible, and inclusive approach to innovation and entrepreneurship emerging from India. We articulate why this method is appropriate within the Indian context and highlight similarities between jugaad and related types of innovation originating from other emerging (and developed) economies. Next, we identify different types of organizations that engage in jugaad and elucidate their abilities, or lack thereof, to undertake such innovation. Finally, we incorporate the notion of jugaad within current theorizing on innovation and entrepreneurship and outline an agenda for future research on this topic. Overall, we provide insights on a mode of innovating that is increasingly prevalent in India as well as certain economies around the world and take steps towards integrating this concept into the mainstream theory, practice, and policy discourses around innovation and entrepreneurship.
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External DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10490-015-9445-9
This record's URL: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/253311
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