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Trajectory dynamics in innovation : developing and transforming a mobile money service across time and place

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Oborn, Eivor, Barrett, Michael, Orlikowski, Wanda and Kim, Anna (2019) Trajectory dynamics in innovation : developing and transforming a mobile money service across time and place. Organization Science, 30 (5). pp. 1097-1123. doi:10.1287/orsc.2018.1281

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Abstract

This paper examines how and why innovations are reshaped as they become implemented and used in locales that are distant and distinct from those where the innovation was initially developed. Drawing on an in-depth field study of the innovation process that produced a mobile money system for Kenya, we contribute an understanding of the particular dynamics that arise when an innovation trajectory interacts with local trajectories that constitute the local conditions and practices of specific places. We identify four distinct patterns of trajectory dynamics—separation, coordination, diversification, and integration—each of which has different implications for the innovation, its implementation, and consequences on the ground. Developing a model of trajectory dynamics in innovation, we theorize the processes through which innovations are transformed over time as they interact with multiple local trajectories and the specific innovation outcomes that are generated as a result. Such theorizing reconceptualizes traditional notions of innovation diffusion by explicating how and why innovations change in multiple and unexpected ways as they move to particular places and engage with local conditions and practices.

Item Type: Journal Article
Divisions: Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Entrepreneurship, Innovation & Management
Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School
Journal or Publication Title: Organization Science
Publisher: Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (I N F O R M S)
ISSN: 1047-7039
Official Date: 9 August 2019
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9 August 2019Available
30 November 2018Accepted
Volume: 30
Number: 5
Page Range: pp. 1097-1123
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.2018.1281
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Restricted or Subscription Access
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