Beyond buying: The application of service design methodology to understand adoption of clean cookstoves in Kenya and Zambia

Jürisoo, Marie; Lambe, Fiona; Osborne, Matthew

doi:10.1016/j.erss.2017.11.023

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“…The majority of these studies focus on examining the implementation process rather than the reproduction of social innovations. The second stream of studies assesses factors that affect subsistence user's ability and motivation to adopt and continue using a social innovation (Dey, Pandit, Saren, Bhowmick, and Woodruffe‐Burton, ; Jürisoo, Lambe, and Osborne, ; Tigabu, ).…”

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Toward A Theory on the Reproduction of Social Innovations in Subsistence Marketplaces

Steinfield

Holt

2019

J of Product Innov Manag

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Social innovations and their diffusion are critical in bridging the multiplicity of deprivations experienced by those in subsistence contexts. Yet they often do not diffuse as expected. To better understand this prevalent problem, this article develops a theory of diffusion that explains the reproduction (duplication) of social innovations in subsistence contexts. The theory utilizes a bottom-up perspective that considers what attributes of innovations and capacities of actors matter to reproduction, particularly for subsistence user-producers. Adopting an inductive, case-based approach, the authors draw on examples of social innovations in sub-Saharan Africa. Based on the authors' research and extant literature, this article builds a typology that captures different modes of reproduction. The typology delineates three archetypes of reproduced social innovations: mimetic, facilitated, and complex, and notes how frugal innovations can emerge from these archetypes. These archetypes are based on the interactions of: (1) a product's resource and knowledge complexities, and (2) the knowledge capabilities or resources of various actors, including subsistence user-producers and bridging agents. The typology thus illuminates the conditions under which subsistence user-producers might independently reproduce a social innovation (mimetic innovations), when they need assistance from bridging agents (facilitated innovations), and when the mix of resources and knowledge are beyond their capacity (complex innovations). Moreover, by exploring reproduction experiences of subsistence users, this article recognizes the implications of low literary, close social networks, and physical limitations. By examining who controls the knowledge and resources imperative to reproduction, the authors go beyond a focus on the social benefits of innovations to consider how intellectual property and profits matter to different actors. This article pulls together these various insights and identifies key implications that social innovators and intermediaries should consider when working to reproduce social innovations in subsistence contexts and with subsistence user-producers.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Toward A Theory on the Reproduction of Social Innovations in Subsistence Marketplaces

Steinfield

Holt

2019

J of Product Innov Manag

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“…The use of biomass in a traditional way is associated with significant negative environmental and health effects with an estimated 4.3 million global deaths directly associated with household air pollution [1]. Therefore, in reducing adverse human health and environmental impacts caused by the burning of traditional biomass improving access to affordable, clean and reliable energy services for cooking is essential for developing countries [2].…”

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“…Therefore, in reducing adverse human health and environmental impacts caused by the burning of traditional biomass improving access to affordable, clean and reliable energy services for cooking is essential for developing countries [2]. Governments around the world are looking to address these problems by scaling up access to cleaner cooking technologies and fuels [1]. It is unfortunate the investment to cleaner cooking solutions like electricity and LPG are out of reach to many consumers in poor countries given its high investment costs [3].…”

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Successes and Challenges of Improved Biomass Cooking Stoves Adoption along the Product Value Chain in Kilimanjaro Region, Tanzania

Massawe

2019

JENRR

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The aim of this study was to assess the adoption of ICS along the value chain. The existing studies have focused much on measuring adoption based on the user’s installation or purchase of the ICS and few have gone to the level of assessing other aspects along the ICS value chain. The argument of this paper is that adoption is a multidimensional concept that goes beyond the initial acquisition of the stove to the sustained use of the same. Using a cross-sectional study design data were collected from 294 households in two Districts of Kilimanjaro regions and were analyzed using both quantitative and qualitative approaches. The findings show that at the lower levels of value chain i.e. promotion and distributions the efforts have been somehow successful since people are aware of ICS benefits and negative effects of using traditional fuels and stoves. In addition, various stove distributors and technicians are in place. On the other hand, the uptake is limited since only 26% of all households had ICS in place of which only 22.1% had functional stoves. The intensity of ICS use is very limited and households have not integrated the stove into household cooking behavior. The study concludes that the stoves program implementers have adopted a disintegrated approach that disconnects various levels of the value chain. The efforts are much concentrated at lowers levels with limited interventions to address challenges limiting uptake, the intensity of use and sustained adoption. The study recommends that a holistic and integrated approach that will facilitate ICS adoption along the value chain should be adopted. This approach will facilitate forward and backward communications on challenges facing each level of the value chain.

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“…Target 7.1.2 seeks 'universal access to clean fuels and technologies for cooking' and tracks the 'proportion of the population with primary reliance on clean fuels and technologies' but progress towards this is lagging and has barely kept pace with population increase [1]. Efforts to explain this have focused primarily on barriers to the initial adoption of CCS [12] yet, as Rosenthal et al [13] point out, there is a need to better understand why biomass fuel use persists even when clean cooking solutions are available (and often affordable). Households that adopt CCS often continue to use their existing stoves ('stacking') both to meet diverse cooking needs (a fairly universal requirement) and address more specific deficiencies in energy access or stove characteristics [14][15][16][17].…”

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The influence of incentives and instructions on behaviour in driving simulator studies

Harvey

Burnett

2019

Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviou

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Drawing on qualitative data from three contrasting sites in Benue state, Nigeria, this paper explores how and why cooking system use and priorities vary over time and space as well as the influence of household air pollution (HAP)-related health risks on fuel and stove choices. The findings indicated that cooking system choices were constrained by economic and access considerations linked to spatio-temporal variations in fuel cost, availability and service quality coupled with socio-cultural and utilitarian influences on cooking practices. Respondents demonstrated strong preferences for wood-fuelled traditional stoves although shifts in fuel use between wet and dry seasons were observed. Stove and fuel 'stacking' were widely practised to meet different cooking requirements and minimise risks from (often seasonal) variations in fuel prices, access and reliability of supply. 'Backsliding' from clean to solid biomass fuels was observed when families outgrew their improved cookstoves or considered biomass to be more affordable, reliable, accessible or safer. There was limited awareness or concern about HAP-related health risks and smoke was valued for preserving food and signalling food security. Attention is drawn to the value of integrating household risk perceptions into improved cookstove promotion and behaviour change initiatives to better understand constraints to the adoption and sustained use of clean cooking systems. The paper concludes by highlighting the benefits of monitoring household cooking system stacks (rather than the 'main' fuel/stove used) for analysing how their components vary over space and time and providing insights into the effectiveness of measures taken to reduce HAP exposure.

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Beyond buying: The application of service design methodology to understand adoption of clean cookstoves in Kenya and Zambia

Cited by 73 publications

References 21 publications

Toward A Theory on the Reproduction of Social Innovations in Subsistence Marketplaces

Toward A Theory on the Reproduction of Social Innovations in Subsistence Marketplaces

Successes and Challenges of Improved Biomass Cooking Stoves Adoption along the Product Value Chain in Kilimanjaro Region, Tanzania

The influence of incentives and instructions on behaviour in driving simulator studies

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