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Financial vs. social sustainability of telecentres: mutual exclusion or mutual reinforcement?
journal contribution
posted on 2017-05-24, 09:22 authored by Silvia MasieroThe debate on development-led telecentre projects revolves around the concept of sustainability. Although it is accepted that telecentre sustainability has both a financial and a social dimension, the relationship between these two sides is sometimes axiomatically defined as one of mutual exclusion. Through the case study of the Akshaya Telecentre Project in Kerala, southern India, we problematize this logic: we individuate a set of mechanisms through which the social dimension of telecentre sustainability feeds the financial one, rather than obstructing it. As such, we propose a new paradigm for telecentre studies, in which social and financial sustainability are interlinked by mutual reinforcement.
History
School
- Business and Economics
Department
- Business
Published in
The Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing CountriesVolume
45Issue
3Pages
1 - 23 (24)Citation
MASIERO, S., 2011. Financial vs. social sustainability of telecentres: mutual exclusion or mutual reinforcement? Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries, 45 (3), pp.1-23.Publisher
City University of Hong KongVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Publication date
2011ISSN
1681-4835Publisher version
Language
- en