全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): Can Pay-As-You-Go, digitally enabled business models support sustainability transformations in developing countries? Outstanding questions and a theoretical basis for future research.

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来源类型	Article
规范类型	其他
DOI	10.3390/su11072105
ISBN	2071-1050
	Can Pay-As-You-Go, digitally enabled business models support sustainability transformations in developing countries? Outstanding questions and a theoretical basis for future research.
	Ockwell, David; Atela, Joanes; Mbeva, Kenedy; Chengo, Victoria; Byrne, Rob; Durrant, Rachael; Kasprowikz, Victoria; Ely, Adrian
发表日期	2019-04-09
出处	Sustainability
出版者	MDPI
出版年	2019
页码	2105 1-21
语种	英语
摘要	This paper examines the rapidly emerging and rapidly changing phenomenon of pay-as-you-go (PAYG) digitally enabled business models, which have had significant early success in providing poor people with access to SDG relevant technologies (e.g. for electricity access, water and sanitation and agricultural irrigation). Data is analysed based on literature review, two stakeholder workshops (or “transformation labs”) and stakeholder interviews (engaging 41 stakeholders in total). This demonstrates the existing literature on PAYG is patchy at best, with no comprehensive or longitudinal, and very little theoretically grounded, research to date. The paper contributes to existing research on PAYG and sustainability transformations more broadly in two key ways. Firstly, it articulates a range of questions that remain to be answered in order to understand and deliver against the current and potential contribution of PAYG to effecting sustainability transformations (the latter we define as achieving environmental sustainability and social justice). These questions focus at three levels: national contexts for fostering innovation and technology uptake; the daily lives of poor and marginalised women and men, and; global political economies and value accumulation. Secondly, the paper articulates three areas of theory (based on emerging critical social science research on sustainable energy access) that have potential to support future research that might answer these questions, namely: socio-technical innovation system building; social practice, and; global political economy and value chain analysis. Whilst recognising existing tensions between these three areas of theory, we argue that rapid sustainability transformations demand a level of epistemic pragmatism. Such pragmatism, we argue, can be achieved by situating research using any of the above areas of theory within the broader context of Leach et al.’s (2010) Pathways Approach. This allows for exactly the kind of interdisciplinary approach, based on a commitment to pluralism and the co-production of knowledge, and firmly rooted in a commitment to environmental sustainability and social justice, that the SDGs demand.
URL	http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/83022/
来源智库	Science Policy Research Unit (United Kingdom)
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资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/469195
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Ockwell, David,Atela, Joanes,Mbeva, Kenedy,et al. Can Pay-As-You-Go, digitally enabled business models support sustainability transformations in developing countries? Outstanding questions and a theoretical basis for future research.. 2019.