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....

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...

The purpose of this research is to understand how microfinance organizations innovate their products, services, and processes to improve financial inclusion. The approach used is a retrospective, longitudinal, qualitative case study of how Grameen Foundation, a global non-government organization...