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Shared Value is a concept that incites business corporations to invest in solving social and societal needs while seeking to increase their revenues. The concept is based on finding a win-win situation that will create a value for both society and economy, hence the term of “shared value”. This paper is an attempt to revisit this business concept. It reviews its definition, the motivation behind adopting it, and what makes it different from corporate social responsibility and sustainability. Further, it summarizes three ways to create shared value and discusses how information technologies (IT) could bring a contribution to create and capture this kind of value. The paper introduces a framework that summarizes and shows the necessary steps to create a shared value through IT.
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El Manouar, A., El Hilali, W. (2020). Creating Shared Value Through Information Technologies. In: Baghdadi, Y., Harfouche, A., Musso, M. (eds) ICT for an Inclusive World. Lecture Notes in Information Systems and Organisation, vol 35. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34269-2_5
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