Current literature on the developmentally disabled indicates they represent a large untapped labor pool that is significantly inhibited in its inclusion in the community. To address this unnecessary isolation, a voluntary agency in Georgia, wanted to innovate its service offering by providing...

Competing Values Framework (CVF) has attracted attention in the organization literature but little is known about how competing values can inform development of voluntary organizations. Against this backdrop, we present an action research study into Right in the Community (RitC), a voluntary...

Improving technology products and services by acquiring requisite innovation capability can be challenging: The acquired firm needs to be integrated into the provider’s operation to realize synergies, but such integration might jeopardize the acquired firm’s continued ability to innovate....

Although there has been a growing understanding of theory in the Information Systems (IS) field in recent years, the process of theorizing is rarely addressed with contributions originating from other disciplines and little effort to coherently synthesize them. Moreover, the field’s view of...

Microfranchising has emerged as a potential strategy to rapidly scale up entrepreneurship within base of the pyramid (BOP) markets in order to contribute to poverty reduction and to increase economic growth. However, we know little about how such networks are designed and orchestrated in...