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:...

Intermediaries – organizations that connect actors who could not otherwise transact – play an important role in building inclusive markets. However, we know little about how the specific characteristics of the social context influence the effectiveness of intermediary activities. The purpose...

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...

Chapter 1. Introduction to the Role of Information and Communication Technologies in Polarization (Israr Qureshi, Babita Bhatt, Samrat Gupta and Amit Anand Tiwari) -- Part I: Techniques and Methods -- Chapter 2. A Schelling-opinion model based on integration of opinion formation with residential...

Part I: Overview of Sharing Economy at the Base of the Pyramid -- Chapter 1. Overview of Sharing Economy at the Base of the Pyramid (Israr Qureshi, Babita Bhatt, and Dhirendra Mani Shukla) -- Part II: Theoretical Underpinnings: creating fairer sharing economy -- Chapter 2. Not only for-profit....