I am looking at the emergence of recycled water schemes in Australia and have found that the structures of social movements i.e. mobilising structures, political opportunity structures and framing structures have the potential to be used to analyse collective action by organisations enabling institutional innovation in the water sector. Apart from Hargraves et al (2006) 'Collective action model of institutional innovation' I havent come across others working in this area...
There is a recent special issue edited by Adrian Smith and Gill Seyfang dedicated to this topic (using the term 'grassroots innovation'), see Global Environmental Change, Volume 23, Issue 5, October 2013
Some colleagues of mine are working in the same direction:http://ideas.repec.org/p/vnm/wpdman/77.html
We have some content on C-Forms which may be relevant. The section in the below paper regarding non-software C-Forms seems directly relevant.
Article An Initial Description of the C-Form
perhaps ?:
Strang, D., & Soule, S. A. (1998). Diffusion in organizations and social movements: From hybrid corn to poison pills. Annual review of sociology, 265-290.
You could also check our new project 'Revolt in the Square' funded by ESRC
http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/projects?ref=AH%2FP008240%2F1
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