Purpose – This chapter introduces, problematizes, and extends research on business model innovation in the third sector from a feminist perspective. We examine how the issues of marginalization, subordination, and cooptation are revealed in dominant business models. These issues form a “dark...

Organizations, whether for-profit, nonprofit or governmental, value – and sometimes devalue – social benefit. Values, defined as “that which people hold dear, esteem or cherish,” ( Harvie & Milburn, 2010, p. 632 ), also organize. Organizational practices (actions and relationships) are...

This study extends arguments on vicarious learning by exploring how effectively firms integrate indicators of others’ failures and successes. Our analyses of 356,992 adverse events in the medical device industry over a ten-year period (1997 to 2007) show that firms are more likely to learn...

This paper explores the development of market roles and transactions in fuel-efficient stoves in Darfur from 1997 to 2008 as a grounded example of how subsistence markets are socially constructed in post-conflict settings. Using a combination of archival texts, interviews, and real-time...