Scaling inclusive digital innovation successfully
The Case of Crowdfunding Social Enterprises
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6149768 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Paul Braund (University of Auckland), Anke Schwittay (0000-0001-7592-2403, Institute of Development Studies, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 15-29 |
| Publication date | 2015-07-21 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Innovation and Development (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2157-9318 • E-ISSN: 2157-930X |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/2157930x.2015.1067392 |
| OpenAlex | W2273523664 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 13 |
There is a growing interest in how organizations and initiatives that innovate to use information and communication technologies for development (ICTD) can scale their operations, reach and impact. This article takes a systemic and socio-technical approach to analyse the successful scaling of a crowdfunding social enterprise. It traces the growth of the ‘innofusion’ network of the world's first person-to-person microlending platform, with particular emphasis on practices of balancing along three dimensions: (1) the need for standardization to manage expansion across highly diverse geographical contexts and for adaptation, customization and diversification to produce locally meaningful impact; (2) online and offline strategies and (3) business and social aspects of the organization. Processes of techno-financial scaling made possible by organizational and technological innovation at the social enterprise, which is embedded in the San Francisco Bay Area's techno-entrepreneurial milieu, also enabled financial innovation among platform partners in developing countries
Adaptation (eye · Business · Diversification (marketing strategy · Economic growth · Economics · Industrial organization · Knowledge management · Microfinance · Open Innovation · Personalization · Political science · Public relations · Scale (ratio · Social business · Social enterprise · Social innovation · Standardization · Computer Science · FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance · ICT in Developing Communities · Innovation and Socioeconomic Development · Marketing
Non-Disciplinary Power and the Network Society
Sorting Things Out
Conceptualising Inclusive Innovation
Balancing the Local and the Global in Infrastructural Information Systems
Information Systems and Developing Countries
Scaling Information Infrastructure
Local Adaptations to Global Trends
New models of inclusive innovation for development
Nurturing user–producer interaction
Microloans and Micronarratives
The financial inclusion assemblage
Microfinance and the Gender of Risk
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2025 (9) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |