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Introduction
Israr Qureshi is currently involved in multiple research projects that investigate various social value creation aspects through social entrepreneurship and Information and Communication Technology for Sustainable Development(ICTSD). Israr’s extensive research and pro bono advising of social enterprises and ventures in the BoP context helped him understand the role of ICTSD and Social entrepreneurship in transforming the society.
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Social inclusion-the ability to participate fully in one's social world-is gaining importance in policy and academic circles. Information system research has shown how addressing digital divides and expanding individual capabilities could increase the inclusion of marginalized groups. Yet, while these contributions are notable, much of early resear...
Empowering Indigenous communities through entrepreneurialism is touted as key for reducing Indigenous disadvantage, but little headway has been made. One core and persistent issue is difficulty accessing finance to support growth. To understand why and to guide future policy and research, we review the current state of research on Indigenous financ...
Although health information systems (HIS) play an important role in elevating health standards, a comprehensive understanding of how to effectively implement HIS in rural areas is lacking. This issue becomes more significant when considering that globally a majority of the approximately 1.5 million deaths of children under the age of five in 2019 t...
The micro-entrepreneurship sector, as the second-largest employment generator in rural areas, plays a crucial role in alleviating poverty. This study explores how social enterprises can assist rural micro-entrepreneurs in mobilizing and leveraging indigenous knowledge to align production with demand. We propose technoficing as a strategic approach...
Social media platforms often privilege dominant logics, marginalizing peripheral logics held by indigenous communities. Through a hermeneutic analysis of selling posts on the Facebook page, this research reveals the mechanisms employed by indigenous women entrepreneurs to activate their dormant logic and make it more visible and compatible with the...
Dedicated: To Gandhian social entrepreneurs and progressive communities for prefiguring Sarvodaya through Antyodaya.
Preface:
It is with great pleasure, humility and gratitude that I present to you this edited book, which is not only a professional endeavor but also a deeply personal journey. Throughout my life, I have been inspired by the profou...
In this paper, we examine community collectives—place-based, community-led initiatives for sustainable livelihood, as an alternative to the top-down, efficiency-driven economic model. Drawing on the theoretical framework of prefigurative organizing, we examined the strategies employed by community members in confronting entrenched inequalities and...
In this edited book, we provide foundational tenets of Gandhian perspective, and present examples of social organizations that are aiming to insulate themselves by adopting community and village-centered approaches to restructuring socially-embedded economic activities that align with Gandhian principles. These cases highlight the relevance of Gand...
The relevance of digital social innovation as a means to mitigate grand challenges has increasingly being recognized. It is becoming evident that affordable and easily adaptable technological solutions might be more impactful for solving the problems of the marginalized than cutting-edge technologies that are difficult to manage and maintain in res...
The rampant consumerism, wasteful lifestyle, and unchecked greed have pushed our planet to the brink and exacerbated social inequalities. Business as usual is no longer a viable option, as it threatens biodiversity and the survival of future generations. The COVID-19 pandemic has further exposed the systemic unsustainable practices of our market an...
In this chapter, we explore how organizations create and manage commons and build self-reliant communities through the case study of the Association for Sarva Seva Farms (ASSEFA), a social intermediary working in India. ASSEFA provides an exemplary case to understand these questions due to its leadership in the Bhoodan (land-gift) and Gramdan (vill...
This chapter explores the relationship between social entrepreneurship and women’s empowerment. The extant literature views social entrepreneurship as a solution to poverty and gender inequalities and discusses how social enterprises empower women by developing their skills and capabilities in emerging economies. Notwithstanding the important contr...
In this chapter, we discuss the need and importance of self-reliant, equitable, and resilient communities in management research and examine the role of social intermediaries, inspired by the Gandhian philosophy, as a catalyst in this process. We reassert the severity of the grand challenges of poverty, inequality, and climate changes to the human...
Community-driven development (CDD) is gaining momentum as the challenges of the top-down economic model are realized. CDD is based on the assumptions that designing and implementing entrepreneurial solutions with and by the communities could enhance efficiency in resource allocation, build capabilities and skills of the members, and lead to transfo...
This chapter describes the journey of a social entrepreneur, Vijay Mahajan, from his early formative influences to his retirement from the enterprise; it intertwines with the history of the Basix Social Enterprise Group, one of the pioneering social enterprises in the world, which helped promote the livelihoods of millions of poor people, initially...
Blockchain has been touted as a game changer in supply chains. While the technology can greatly improve the overall supply chain management, there are ethical challenges in its implementation which has been mostly overlooked in the existing literature. We are therefore yet to know the underlying ethical dilemmas as well as how to navigate the varie...
Business and Society (ABDC A, Impact Factor 7.0) invites submissions that extend our knowledge of the Sharing Economy at the Base of the Pyramid: Societal Impact and Challenges through either novel conceptual frameworks or rigorous empirical research.
• The submission window for full paper: July 15, 2023 – October 31, 2023
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Abstract:
The role of institutional factors in shaping the outcomes of research and development (R&D) alliance portfolios (APs) is underexplored in the extant literature. This study examines how
institutional contingencies in an emer...
COVID-19 vaccination is widely regarded as an individual decision, resting upon individual characteristics and demographic factors. In this research, we provide evidence that psychological group membership, and more precisely, social cohesion-a multidimensional concept that encompasses one's sense of connectedness to, and interrelations within, a g...
Social entrepreneurship aims to address social issues such as poverty, inequality, and access to healthcare and education. The development of inclusive markets through social entrepreneurship has attracted attention from academics and policymakers, but the role of local institutions in promoting or impeding social entrepreneurship is often overlook...
As social enterprises seek to share knowledge, they must navigate social hierarchy. In this study, we examine social enterprises' efforts to share knowledge in rural areas and how they seek to mitigate some of the consequences of women's marginalization during this process. We use a two-step, multi-method approach. We begin with a quantitative stud...
Social entrepreneurs encounter ethical dilemmas while addressing their social and commercial missions. The literature has implicitly acknowledged the ethical dilemmas social entrepreneurs face; however, the nature and implications of these ethical dilemmas and how social entrepreneurs navigate them are underexplored and undertheorized. We address t...
Trust is paramount to developing and maintaining long‐term relationships in all stages of the customer lifecycle, including the repurchase stage. This research goes beyond the simple finding documented in the extant trust literature that the effect of trust will diminish. It sheds light on the role of institutional contexts and develops a nuanced u...
Call for Papers – Special Issue of Business & Society
Sharing Economy at the Base of the Pyramid: Societal Impact and Challenges
* Deadline for full paper submission: July 15, 2023*
This call for papers is to explore the prospects of using sharing economy models for societal impact and the challenges in such an attempt. We invite papers on the s...
Although existing research highlights different instances of ICT-enabled social innovation for socially disadvantaged or excluded groups, it largely overlooks how multiple facets of smallholder farmer poverty can be addressed by intermediaries through the use of digital platforms. In this paper, we discuss piecemeal, synchronized and orchestrated i...
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Extant approaches to information provisioning to farmers to improve agricultural productivity, and thereby alleviate poverty have relied on top-down external expert-driven knowledge. Such external kno...
Technology is central to the work-life of professionals in the information technology (IT) domain. However, inadequate attention has been paid to technology as an antecedent of IT professionals' work outcomes, such as turnover intention and work exhaustion. In the present work, we conducted a mixed-method study. In Study 1, we used an inductive qua...
The year 2020 has been a testing ground for the progress towards a cohesive and sustainable future envisaged through the advancement in Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) (UN ECOSOC 2021). In a time of uncertainty, helplessness, and growing frustrations, we, as a society, found that ICTs can be a mixed blessing. We witnessed the powe...
Information communication technologies (ICTs) have the potential to bring the world closer through facilitating communication and social interactions (Hampton and Wellman 2001; Qureshi 2009; Qureshi et al. 2018a). As the twentieth century came to an end and we stepped into the twenty-first century, scholars were optimistic about the power of ICTs t...
Adequately addressing the grand challenge of poverty requires addressing resource scarcity. However, efforts to provide resources as a means of poverty alleviation have met with mixed success. We explore what makes resource provision effective as a means of poverty alleviation. We adopt a resourcing perspective, which focuses on the relationship be...
Excellent opportunity to learn from eminent scholars.
Insights on research in marginalized contexts by Chrisanthi Avgerou, Robert Davison, Shirley Gregor, K. D. Joshi, Dorothy Leidner, Shaila Miranda, Stacie Petter, and Saonee Sarker
Special Issue PDW mentoring by Anita Bhappu, Ravishankar M.N., M.S. Sandeep, Maha Shaikh, Jaime Windeler, and Ambe...
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Intermediaries – organizations that connect actors who could not otherwise transact – play an important role in building inclusive markets. However, we know little about h...
A growing number of firms have used disruptive innovation as a strategy to gain competitiveness, and the topic of how disruptive innovation occurs has attracted wide attention. Leveraging the extant literature on disruptive innovation, stakeholder theory, and contingency theory, this study explores how corporate social responsibility (CSR) affects...
Key themes:
* Privacy, Trust and Security Issues in the Sharing Economy at the BoP
* The sharing economy and resource constraints at the BoP
* The sharing economy and socio-cultural practices at the BoP
* The sharing economy and social capital at the BoP
Representative research questions:
* How do the digitally enabled sharing economy models...
This study examines the characteristics and resourcing activities of community-based sharing economy models at the base of the pyramid (BoP) through a case study of two sharing economy-based initiatives of a global development organisation. Findings suggest temporary and customised resource access, platform-mediated transactions, mission and owners...
This book is an attempt to extend the boundary of the sharing economy literature by understanding the opportunities and challenges of implementing sharing economy models at the base of the pyramid (BOP). Compared to contexts generally studied in mainstream sharing economy models, the unique characteristics of the BOP contexts require a reconceptual...
This chapter examines how an ecosystem approach can be applied to develop and sustain sharing activities and to scale the social impact of sharing economy models (SEMs). Using the literature and findings from a pilot study of Moving Feast, an emerging ecosystem among food-based social organizations in Victoria, Australia, we develop a relational ec...
The prevalent discourse on sharing economy presume it to be an economic system in which assets or services are shared between peers, groups, or organizations for free or for a fee. Sharing economy conceptualized as commercialzed access to idle resources has grown exponentially in both scale and scope over the past years. However, there has been rel...
Using a case study approach of a pioneering social enterprise in India, this study identifies primary characteristics of a digitally anchored sharing economy model at the base of the pyramid (BoP) and explores the role of such a model in the process of social intermediation and value creation. Research suggests that digital stack, access without ow...
This book explores how the sharing economy models present opportunities and also pose challenges in achieving sustainable development at the base of the pyramid.
Through a 3S Framework (sharing, socialization, and social intermediation) and Reformative-Transformative classification, this book demonstrates how sharing economy models offer the pote...
Network theory and research have identified the powerful dynamic of homophily whereby individuals are more likely to connect with similar rather than dissimilar others. However, less is known about when individuals might connect with dissimilar others to enhance organizational diversity benefits and mitigate social exclusion. This study builds upon...
We see the DSI research framework as a way to organise various streams of research being conducted to understand how digital technologies and platforms can be leveraged to address various social issues included in the UN's SDGs. This framework also provides an opportunity to integrate various theoretical perspectives, such as social intermediation,...
Grounded on attribution theory, we propose a dynamic development model to examine the influence of subordinates’ and leaders’ perceptions of one another’s work and impression management (IM) motives on leader–member exchange (LMX) over time in newly formed teams. We test our hypotheses using a two‐level bivariate latent change score model to invest...
Purpose
This paper aims to explore how a socio-digital platform can facilitate consumer responsibilisation in food consumption to encourage sustained responsible consumption and uncovers its possible impacts on different stakeholders in the agricultural ecosystem.
Design/methodology/approach
Two-year-long case study of a socio-digital platform tha...
Base of the Pyramid (BoP) producers have limited opportunities to create and capture value due to various constraints, which keeps them trapped in the vicious cycle of poverty. The emerging literature on the role of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in the poverty alleviation of BoP producers focuses on ICT-enabled solutions to valu...
There is, in general, a dearth of empirical inquiries on how institutional voids are filled through institutional work in marginalized communities. Extant studies have focussed on institutional work that addresses solitary institutional void, mostly in formal settings. In this paper, we inquire the case of a social entrepreneurial venture in India...
Many organizations aim to increase the representation of women in their workforce, yet such efforts are often challenged by women’s relatively higher propensity to leave a job compared to men. Overlooked so far has been the temporal relationship between the representation of women and an organization’s collective employee turnover. We suggest that...
Speed and strength are two important but understudied dimensions of alliance portfolio (AP) expansion. AP expansion speed can expedite learning but also leads to time-compression diseconomies and escalating costs; AP expansion strength mitigates this effect but limits the benefits of faster expansion. We examined the effect of AP expansion speed on...
Researchers’ ability to draw inferences from their empirical work hinges on the degree of measurement error. The literature in Information Systems and other behavioural disciplines describes a plethora of sources of error. While it helps researchers deal with them when taking specific steps in the measurement process, like modelling constructs, dev...
This study examines how quality signals sent by technology ventures jointly affect investors' decisions under information asymmetry. We categorize signal contents as concerning technology development, venture officers, or early investors. Because similar information may not much reduce information asymmetry, different signals of the same content su...
Social enterprises (SEs) primarily aim to create social value, that is, to generate benefits or reduce costs for society, while maintaining financial sustainability. Owing to their unique operating conditions and organizational characteristics, SEs face more severe resource challenges than their commercial counterparts. These challenges are exacerb...
We investigate the research question: Why are there very few social enterprises in China? Our findings unpack four types of institutional challenges to social entrepreneurship, as perceived by social entrepreneurs: norms of a strong role for government; misunderstood or unknown role for social enterprises; non-supportive rules and regulations; and...
This study examines how three important alliance portfolio (AP) characteristics – partner type diversity, tie-strength, and learning orientation- that enable organizational learning configure to affect firm performance. We suggest that partner type diversity and tie-strength interact positively to affect firm performance. However, this positive int...
In this study, we examine performance effects of partner diversity in exploratory and exploitative alliance portfolios (AP). We suggest that for exploratory AP the costs of partner diversity increase at an increasing rate such that partner diversity has an inverted-U shaped relationship with firm performance, whereas for exploitative AP costs incre...
In the knowledge-based economy, organizational success is dependent on how effectively organizational employees share information. Many studies have investigated how different types of communication activities and communications media influence knowledge sharing. We contribute to this literature by examining increasingly prevalent yet understudied...
Knowledge sharing is central to reducing inequality and alleviating poverty. However, communities in settings of extreme poverty are often bounded by distinct perspectives and understandings that hinder knowledge sharing. Furthermore, social fault lines may create internal boundaries that impede interaction, further complicating knowledge sharing....
Knowledge sharing is central to reducing inequality and alleviating poverty. However, communities in settings of extreme poverty are often bounded by distinct perspectives and understandings that hinder knowledge sharing. Furthermore, social fault lines may create internal boundaries that impede interaction, further complicating knowledge sharing....
The value of the networks that MBA students develop is often limited by the tendency of people to favor connections with similar others, resulting in self-segregation among identity groups. In order to identify the origins of network diversity, a key question for theory and practice is whether majority or minority groups are more likely to develop...
We draw on an in-depth investigation into the phenomenon of community radio in India to identify the emergence of an institutional logic in a field. We delineate five stages of emergence, starting with problematization of dominant logics and ending with formation of an institutionally complex field. Further, we highlight how such a process results...
We draw on an in-depth investigation into the phenomenon of community radio in India to identify the emergence of an institutional logic in a field. We delineate five stages of emergence, starting with problematization of dominant logics and ending with formation of an institutionally complex field. Further, we highlight how such a process results...
We present the data from a crowdsourced project seeking to replicate findings in independent laboratories before (rather than after) they are published. In this Pre-Publication Independent Replication (PPIR) initiative, 25 research groups attempted to replicate 10 moral judgment effects from a single laboratory’s research pipeline of unpublished fi...
We examine the role of self-monitoring personality in shaping network change in two important types of social relationships. In a two-wave social network study, we find that individuals with higher levels of self-monitoring derive persistent personality-linked in-degree centrality benefits in the general socializing network but have fading benefits...
This crowdsourced project introduces a collaborative approach to improving the reproducibility of scientific research, in which findings are replicated in qualified independent laboratories before (rather than after) they are published. Our goal is to establish a non-adversarial replication process with highly informative final results. To illustra...
While the past decade has produced a number of insights into the process of institutional change, scholars still lack a comprehensive understanding of the germinal stages of institutional entrepreneurship. More specifically, further knowledge is needed into what factors cause certain individuals to initiate norm-breaking behaviour while others cont...
By integrating social network theory and leader–member exchange (LMX) theory, we explore the effects of three types of social relationships on employee innovative behavior: weak ties outside the group, LMX, and strong ties within the group. The results from a sample in a high-tech firm showed that LMX fully mediated the positive relationship betwee...
Using latent growth models (LGM), we investigated how repeated reciprocal attributions between leaders and subordinates influence the development of leader-member exchange (LMX) quality over time. A six time-point of field data (2 weeks, 4 weeks, 2 months, 4 months, 6 months, and 12 months after their first day to form the dyad) were collected from...
In recent years information communication technology (ICT) has been viewed as a potentially valuable tool for increasing knowledge transfer in the developing world. While a well-established body of work explores the use of ICT for knowledge transfer in a developed context, we know much less about how knowledge transfer unfolds against the backdrop...