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Digitally mediated value creation for non-commodity base of the pyramid producers
International Journal of Information Management ( IF 21.0 ) Pub Date : 2020-10-27 , DOI: 10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2020.102256
Rishikesan Parthiban , Israr Qureshi , Somprakash Bandyopadhyay , Saravana Jaikumar

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 value capture. However, ICT-enabled solutions to create value at the BoP have received less attention. In this paper, we study the issues surrounding value creation for non-commodity BoP producers by employing a case study of four organisations in rural India. Our findings reveal two critical mechanisms for ICT-enabled value creation in a resource-constrained environment: awareness creation and repeated engagement. We find that ICT-enabled awareness creation has a positive impact on value-added, but this effect decreases as product complexity increases. We also find that ICT-mediated repeated engagement and value-added have an inverted U-shape relationship, with value-added increasing with complexity, but after a threshold, value-added declines with increase in complexity. Building on these findings, we use the lens of value co-creation and media richness perspective to contribute to theory, practice and policy by underscoring how awareness creation and repeated engagement act as key dimensions for value creation. We delineate how limitations in ICT infrastructure can be overcome in resource-constrained environments and explicate a conceptualisation of ICT-mediated joint value creation in general for spatially separated actors.



中文翻译:

金字塔生产者非商品基地的数字化价值创造

由于种种限制,金字塔底层生产商的机会有限,无法创造和获取价值,这使他们陷入贫困的恶性循环中。有关信息和通信技术(ICT)在BoP生产者减轻贫困中的作用的新兴文献集中在以ICT为基础的价值获取解决方案。但是,基于信息通信技术的解决方案可在国际收支平衡表上创造价值,因此受到的关注较少。在本文中,我们通过对印度农村地区四个组织的案例研究,研究了围绕非商品BoP生产者创造价值的问题。我们的发现揭示了在资源受限的环境中利用ICT实现价值创造的两种关键机制:意识创造和反复参与。我们发现,借助ICT开展的意识建设对增值,但是随着产品复杂度的增加,这种影响会降低。我们还发现,ICT介导的重复参与和增值具有倒U型关系,增值随着复杂度的增加而增加,但在达到阈值后,增值随着复杂度的增加而下降。在这些发现的基础上,我们使用价值共创和媒体丰富性的视角,通过强调意识的创造和反复参与如何成为价值创造的关键维度,来为理论,实践和政策做出贡献。我们描述了在资源有限的环境中如何克服ICT基础设施的局限性,并阐明了通常由ICT中介的联合价值创造的概念,通常是针对空间分离的参与者。我们还发现,ICT介导的重复参与和增值具有倒U型关系,增值随着复杂度的增加而增加,但在达到阈值后,增值随着复杂度的增加而下降。基于这些发现,我们使用价值共创和媒体丰富性的视角,通过强调意识的创造和反复参与如何成为价值创造的关键维度,来为理论,实践和政策做出贡献。我们描述了在资源有限的环境中如何克服ICT基础设施的局限性,并阐明了通常由ICT中介的联合价值创造的概念,通常是针对空间分离的参与者。我们还发现,ICT介导的重复参与和增值具有倒U型关系,增值随着复杂度的增加而增加,但在达到阈值后,增值随着复杂度的增加而下降。在这些发现的基础上,我们使用价值共同创造和媒体丰富性的视角,通过强调意识的创造和反复参与作为价值创造的关键维度,从而为理论,实践和政策做出贡献。我们描述了在资源有限的环境中如何克服ICT基础设施的局限性,并阐明了通常由ICT中介的联合价值创造的概念,通常是针对空间分离的参与者。基于这些发现,我们使用价值共创和媒体丰富性的视角,通过强调意识的创造和反复参与如何成为价值创造的关键维度,来为理论,实践和政策做出贡献。我们描述了在资源受限的环境中如何克服ICT基础设施的局限性,并阐明了通常由ICT中介的联合价值创造的概念,通常是针对空间分离的参与者。基于这些发现,我们使用价值共创和媒体丰富性的视角,通过强调意识的创造和反复参与如何成为价值创造的关键维度,来为理论,实践和政策做出贡献。我们描述了在资源受限的环境中如何克服ICT基础设施的局限性,并阐明了通常由ICT中介的联合价值创造的概念,通常是针对空间分离的参与者。

更新日期:2020-10-27
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