Information Systems Journal-CFP: Digitally Enabled Sharing Economy Models at the Base of the Pyramid

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Timeline:
*Deadline for extended abstract January 30, 2022. Submit 3000 words abstract to desem@iimu.ac.in
*Communication of feedback to abstract authors: February 10, 2022
*Workshop at IIM-Udaipur: March 9-10, 2022
*The submission window for full paper: September 1, 2022 – December 31, 2022

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 at the BoP address the challenges of resource-constrained environments?

*What are the emerging community-led social innovation models of sharing economy that leverage digital technologies and are designed or geared towards low-income communities?

*What roles do social entrepreneurship, social intermediation, and digital social innovation play in promoting and suppressing digitally-enabled sharing economy models at the BoP?

*What are the roles of cultural and social factors in facilitating and stifling digitally-enabled sharing economy models at the BoP?

*How to make digitally-enabled sharing economy models more inclusive? Do these models tackle the societal issues of inequality and discrimination or perpetuate such issues?

* What are the implications of social capital for the growth of digitally enabled sharing economy models? How do such models affect the social capital of the BoP communities?

*What are the environmental implications of digitally enabled sharing economy models at the BoP?

*Does digitally-enabled sharing economy models encourage better resource utilization at the BoP or leads to misplacement of scarce resources at the BoP?

*How can digitally-enabled sharing economy models at the BoP achieve a balance between social, economic, and environmental impacts?

*What are the implications of privacy and security concerns of the digitally enabled sharing economy models for the BoP communities? How do intermediaries identify and mitigate such concerns or exploit the vulnerabilities of the BoP communities?