Publication Type
Working Paper
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
7-2022
Abstract
What is the role of organizational innovation—beyond technological innovation—in an era of grand challenges concerning health, poverty, and economic development around the world? How is organizational innovation developed and diffused to influence resource allocation in the field? We conduct a qualitative case study by analyzing a Chinese pharmaceutical firm’s efforts to combat malaria in Africa over 10 years. Through documentation and extensive interviews, we study the role of innovation diffusion and resource allocation to address grand challenges in emerging markets with significant institutional voids. Our conceptual model delineates the different stages of innovation diffusion to show how organizations can draw from various stakeholder resources grounded in cooperation and capability-building to sustain the effects of innovative solutions.
Keywords
Organizational Innovation, Innovation Diffusion, Grand Challenge, Malaria, Africa
Discipline
Finance | Finance and Financial Management
Research Areas
Finance
First Page
1
Last Page
37
Identifier
10.2139/ssrn.4166057
Publisher
SSRN
Citation
JIANG, Han; LIANG, Hao; and YANG, Dongning.
Eradicating Malaria: Innovation diffusion in the face of grand challenges. (2022). 1-37.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/7155
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4166057