Innovating with consumer with disabilities: the ethical challenges of an inclusive innovation process

Estelle Peyrard (stl.peyrard@gmail.com), Cécile Chamaret (cecile.chamaret@polytechnique.edu) and Thierry Rayna
Additional contact information
Estelle Peyrard: CRG I3 - Centre de recherche en gestion I3 - X - École polytechnique - IP Paris - Institut Polytechnique de Paris - I3 - Institut interdisciplinaire de l’innovation - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Cécile Chamaret: CRG I3 - Centre de recherche en gestion I3 - X - École polytechnique - IP Paris - Institut Polytechnique de Paris - I3 - Institut interdisciplinaire de l’innovation - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

Post-Print from HAL

Abstract: The United Nations Report on disabilities documents the limited access to education, employment and social life for persons with disabilities (PWD) and underlines the importance of including them in the definition of inclusive solutions. There are many initiatives to include PWD in various areas of daily life like employment (Patricia Thornton and Neil Lunt, 1997), educational adaptations (Winter & O'Raw, 2010) and standards building (Grosbois, 2010). Product innovation might be part of these initiatives as Desmond et al. (2018) proved the benefits of involving them in the innovation process. More generally, consumers have been involved in the innovation processes for the last decades, through focus groups or co-creation activities. Such activities raise a significant number of ethical questions and issues (intellectual property, safety, privacy to name a few), which are significantly exacerbated in the case of PWD. Nevertheless very few research deals with potential ethical issues in inclusive innovation processes. In a context where corporate social responsibility urges companies to put ethics in every filed of their practice and to include PWD, examining the ethical issues raised by PWD involvement in the innovation phase can lead to a better understanding of cocreation practices and the requirements of inclusion in companies.

Keywords: Ethics; co-creation; inclusive innovation; disabilities (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021-07-08
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Published in European Group for Organizational Studies - Organizing for an inclusive society : meanings, motivations, and mechanisms, Jul 2021, Amsterdam, Netherlands

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hal:journl:hal-04686961

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Post-Print from HAL
Bibliographic data for series maintained by CCSD (hal@ccsd.cnrs.fr).