Meeting Bottom of the Pyramid (BOP) needs by engineering sustainable solutions

Chopra, Suyash Kumar; Narayana, M.G.P.L.

doi:10.1109/tsasia.2012.6397980

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“…Besides basic survival needs, the marginalised people can have other needs (Jagtap et al, 2015;D'Andrea et al, 2006;Subrahmanyan and Gomez-Arias, 2008;Chopra and Narayana, 2012;Viswanathan, 2010). A study in Bolivia found that marginalised individuals consumed status products before fulfilling their basic physiological needs (Van Kempen, 2009).…”

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Key guidelines for designing integrated solutions to support development of marginalised societies

Jagtap

2019

Journal of Cleaner Production

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Key guidelines for designing integrated solutions to support development of marginalised societies

Jagtap

2019

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“…Product designs are mostly focused on employing frugal innovations that use modular and scalable designs with flexible production systems [21,50]). It is also widely acknowledged that it is necessary to become embedded and more acquainted with the BoP way of life for inspiration to design innovative products or services for BoP communities [51].…”

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Creating Shared Value in BoP Communities with Micro-Manufacturing Factories: A Systematized Literature Review

2021

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Background: Shared value creation in base of the pyramid (BoP) communities is a crucial process towards building sustainable societies. BoP communities in developing countries represent more than 4 billion people who live on low incomes with limited access to basic products and services. Current or emerging technologies offer promising solutions for organisations pursuing manufacturing opportunities in BoP communities. This study seeks to explore the literature on how BoP communities may become active participants in sustainably manufacturing products using micro-manufacturing factories. The research question posed is: What are the core concepts that need to be taken into consideration for creating shared value through micro-manufacturing factories in BoP communities? Method: A systematised literature review (SLR) was completed following the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analysis (PRISMA) method for data selection criteria and analysis. The SLR is used to explore the state of literature with regards to creating manufacturing shared value in BoP communities with the objective to identify study gaps and to explore manufacturing shared value creation concepts. Results: Literature indicates initiatives to engage BoP communities through various innovation strategies. The findings of the review are organised under three strategic pillars: capability building strategy, implementation process, and growth strategy. The capability building strategy defines the users’ intention to create shared value in BoP communities with micro-manufacturing factories (MMF). It is followed by the implementation process which guides the users to create manufacturing shared value in BoP communities. This is followed by a growth strategy to scale for impact.

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“…Product designs are mostly focused on employing frugal innovations which use modular and scalable designs with flexible production systems (Arnold, 2018;Chopra and Narayana, 2012). It is also widely acknowledged that it is necessary to get embedded and more acquainted with the BoP way of life for inspiration to design innovative products or services for BoP communities (Lashitew et al, 2018).…”

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Creating Shared Value in BoP communities with Micro-manufacturing Factories: A Systematized Literature Review

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Matope³

2021

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Background: Shared value creation in Base of the Pyramid (BoP) communities is a crucial process towards building sustainable societies. BoP communities in developing countries represent more than four billion people who live on low incomes with limited access to basic products and services. Current or emerging technologies offer promising solutions for organisations pursuing manufacturing opportunities in BoP communities. This study seeks to explore the literature on how BoP communities may become active participants in sustainably manufacturing products using micro-manufacturing factories. The research question posed is: What are the core concepts that need to be taken into consideration for creating shared value through micro-manufacturing factories in BoP communities? Method: A Systematised Literature review (SLR) was completed following the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analysis (PRISMA) method for data selection criteria and analysis. The SLR is used to explore the state of literature with regards to creating manufacturing shared value in BoP communities with the objective to identify study gaps and to explore shared value creation concepts. Results: Literature indicates BoP initiatives that have pursued to engage BoP communities through various innovation strategies. The findings of the review is organised under three strategic pillars: Capability building strategy, Implementation process, and Growth strategy. The capability building strategy defines the users’ intention to create shared value in BoP communities with Micro-manufacturing factories (MMF). It is followed by the implementation process which guides the users to create manufacturing shared value in BoP communities. This is followed by a growth strategy to scale for impact.

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Meeting Bottom of the Pyramid (BOP) needs by engineering sustainable solutions

Cited by 6 publications

References 10 publications

Key guidelines for designing integrated solutions to support development of marginalised societies

Key guidelines for designing integrated solutions to support development of marginalised societies

Creating Shared Value in BoP Communities with Micro-Manufacturing Factories: A Systematized Literature Review

Creating Shared Value in BoP communities with Micro-manufacturing Factories: A Systematized Literature Review

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