• How can organizations build a capacity for productive innovation?
  • What can we learn from studying how the best scaling organizations do it?
  • Can companies build profitable growth markets that also work for the poor and how?
  • How can for-profit and not-for-profit elements be combined into an effective business model?

These and other questions were posed to us by prominent funders and implementers desperate for answers. GIIL operates from the belief that useful research starts by listening to the challenges that organizations face in their work. Our conversations have shaped our research journey and have created a broad body of knowledge. We share some of this work here.

The following are recent publications on other projects by GIIL.

Article

Scaling innovative ideas to create inclusive labour markets

Dec 2019
Mair, J. 2018. Nature Human Behaviour.

Article

Innovation Is Not the Holy Grail

Dec 2019
Seelos, C., & Mair, J. 2012. Stanford Social Innovation Review(Fall): 45-49.

Research Paper

Profitable business models and market creation in the context of deep poverty: A strategic view.

Dec 2019
Seelos, C., & Mair, J. 2007. Academy of Management Perspectives, 21(4): 49-63.

Book

Innovation and Scaling for Impact

May 2017
By Christian Seelos and Johanna Mair

Article

When Innovation Goes Wrong

Aug 2016
Seelos, C., & Mair, J. 2016. Stanford Social Innovation Review(Fall):27-33.

Research Paper

Organizational Mechanisms of Scaling Social Enterprises

Jun 2011
Christian Seelos and Johanna Mair

Research Paper

Organizational Capacity for Continuous Innovation

Jul 2015
Christian Seelos and Johanna Mair

Article

Innovate and Scale: A Tough Balancing Act

Aug 2015
Seelos, C., & Mair, J. 2013. Stanford Social Innovation Review(Summer): 12-14.

Article

Social Enterprises = Sharing Economy Organizations?

Dec 2019
Johanna Mair, Nikolas Rathert and Georg Reischauer. The Business of Society Sep 2019.

Research Paper

The Organizational Reproduction of Inequality

Dec 2019
Amis, J., Mair, J., Munir, K. 2020. Academy of Management Annals

Article

Open Social Innovation

Aug 2021
Mair, J., & Gegenhuber, T. 2021. Stanford Social Innovation Review (Fall): 26-33.

Research Paper

Alternative Organizing with Social Purpose: Revisiting Institutional Analysis of Market-Based Activity

Aug 2021
Mair, J., & Rathert, N. 2021. Socio-Economic Review. Online First: DOI: 10.1093/ser/mwz031.