Sharing Economy at the Base of the Pyramid

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. Sharing Solidarity, Promoting Opportunities. A Case Study in Rome (Rossana Galdini and Silvia De Nardis).- Chapter 3. Socially Oriented Sharing Economy Platform in Regional Australia: A Polanyian Analysis (Mayra Balderas Escobedo, Zhiwen Zheng, Babita Bhatt).- Chapter 4. The Sharing economy platforms in rural China: Bridging institutional voids through institutional entrepreneurship (Shouxiang Qiu, Zhejing Xu and Babita Bhatt).- Chapter 5. Social Intermediation using Sharing Economy in India: A Case Study of Farmizen (Vinay Pillai, Dhirendra Mani Shukla, and Israr Qureshi).- Part III: Context based challenges in sharing economy models.- Chapter 6. Participation in the Sharing Economy for Refugees in Malaysia: A Solution that Bypasses Legal Constraints? (Melati Nungsari, Chuah Hui Yin).- Chapter 7. Leveraging the power of Sharing: The Case of a Social Enterprise at the Base of the Pyramid (Pradeep Hota and Sumit Mitra).- Chapter 8. Sharing Economy in India: Looking Base of the Pyramid through Critical Infrastructure (Aditi and Nalin Bharti).- Chapter 9. Resourcing and Value Creation: A Case of Sharing Economy Model at the Base of the Pyramid (Meet Pandey, Monica Bhati, Dhirendra Mani Shukla, and Israr Qureshi).- Part IV: Inclusion and Exclusion in sharing economy at BOP.- Chapter 10. Digital Discrimination in Sharing Economy at the Base of the Pyramid (Pardeep Singh Attri and Hari Bapuji).- Chapter 11. Solidarity in the Sharing Economy: The Role of Platform Cooperatives at the Base of the Pyramid (Morshed Mannan and Simon Pek).- Part V: Emerging trends.- Chapter 12. Ethitrade: Countering challenges of sharing economy at the Base of the Pyramid using technology (Pradeep Hota,

Israr Qureshi is a Professor at the Research School of Management, Australian National University (ANU), Canberra. He is a member of ANU Institute for Climate, Energy & Disaster Solutions, and an associate editor at Business & Society, Information Systems Journal, and MIS Quarterly. He was a member (Civil Society Group) and observer (Technical Working Group) on the recently concluded Australian Sustainable Finance Initiative. Israr is currently involved in multiple research projects that investigate various social value creation through social intermediation, social entrepreneurship and digital social innovation. Israr's extensive research and pro bono advising of social enterprises and ventures in the base of the pyramid contexts helped him understand the potential of social intermediation, social entrepreneurship and digital social innovation in transforming society.

Babita Bhatt is a Lecturer at the Research School of Management, Australian National University. Her research interest lies at the intersection of community, civil society and organizations. Her research expertise is in hybrid organizations, particularly social enterprises that are working in resource-constrained and socially challenging contexts. Her research mainly explores how organizational hybridity affects the social impact of social enterprises and what type of governance structures and mechanisms would result in more inclusive outcomes. Through several projects in China, India and the Philippines, she has acquired expertise on the issues related to resource acquisition, scalability, and sustainability of social enterprises. Her work has been published in Organization Studies, Journal of Business Ethics, European Journal of Marketing, and Information Systems Frontiers. She has received funding from various research agencies in Canada, Hong Kong and India.

Dhirendra Mani Shukla is an Assistant Professor at Indian Institute of Management Udaipur.