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The Emergence of Self-Organizing E-Commerce Ecosystems in Remote Villages of China: A Tale of Digital Empowerment for Rural Development1
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The emergence of Alibaba’s Taobao (e-commerce) Villages in remote China has challenged the assumption that rural, underserved communities must always be the recipients of aid to stimulate ICT-enabled development. Based on an in-depth case study of two remote villages in China, this research note shows how ICT (e-commerce) can empower a marginalized community, giving rise to a rural e-commerce ecosystem that can aid self-development. We propose the concept of digital empowerment to explicate our findings in the exploration of community-driven development: first, we identify the critical actors of a rural e-commerce ecosystem and how they use ICTs; second, we illustrate how the same ICT can be used for different affordances by the actors in the evolution of a rural e-commerce ecosystem. The paper also presents unintended consequences of rural e-commerce development. We conclude with suggestions on how to make ICT useful for rural development and, in doing this, challenge some of the prevailing theoretical arguments about this process.
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- Leong, C., Pan, S. L., Newell, S., & Cui, L.
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- MIS Quarterly
- Publisher
- MIS Quarterly
- Published
- 2016-06-01
- Volume
- 40
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 475-484
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- 0276-7783 (ISSN-L)
- 2162-9730
- OpenAlex
- W1430808299
- Cited by
- 379
- References
- 10
- FWCI
- 43.84
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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