Abstract
Mobile financial services is one of the uprising movements to bank the unbanked by integrating philanthropic and business approaches for financial inclusion. In this chapter, the authors address how a systemic view helps integrate the Philanthropic Initiatives (PI) and the Commercial Initiatives (CI) to get a sustainable impact on the unbanked micro-entrepreneurs. However, each approach has pros and cons as they go along the stages of design, deployment, and sustainability. Using the soft system thinking, the authors theorise the Base of the Pyramid (BoP) as a business system to mix-up the relatively high start-up capabilities of the PI with the relatively sustainable impact of CI. The mobile money case shows that donors, local private enterprises, and multinational corporations follow the BoP strategy to develop an online grid that offers a reconciled balanced scorecard for economic returns, social benefits, and local impact. Such a strategy guarantees flexible, long-term investments and facilitates developing innovative financial services.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Organizational Innovation and IT Governance in Emerging Economies |
Editors | Jingyuan Zhao, Patricia Ordóñez de Pablos, Robert Tennyson |
Place of Publication | Hershey |
Publisher | IGI Global |
Pages | 46-82 |
Number of pages | 37 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781466673335 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781466673328 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 30 Nov 2014 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- FinTech
- Mobile Money
- Systems Thinking
- Base of the Pyramid Market