Alleviating poverty through business strategy /

There is a growing realization that business development is the most effective weapon in fighting world poverty. How the for-profit model can be harnessed to provide the poor with a share in the world_s prosperity is discussed through actual cases, and nested in innovative theories of business, soci...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Wankel, Charles
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, N.Y. : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Edición:1st ed.
Temas:
Social entrepreneurship > Case studies.
Poverty > Developing countries > Case studies.
Poverty > Prevention.
Entrepreneuriat social > Études de cas.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Poverty & Homelessness.
Poverty
Poverty > Prevention
Social entrepreneurship
Socialt företagande > fallstudier.
Fattigdom > U-länder > fallstudeir.
Socialtjänst.
Developing countries
Case studies
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : a variety of approaches to alleviating poverty through business strategy / Charles Wankel
  • The end of foreign aid as we know it : the profitable alleviation of poverty in a globalized economy / Scott Kelley, Patricia H. Werhane, and Laura P. Hartman
  • Innovative business approaches and poverty : toward a first evaluation / Emmanuel Raufflet, Alain Berranger, and Alam Aguilar-Platas
  • Information and communication technology for poverty alleviation through education and healthcare--the India experience / Nilay M. Yajnik
  • A collaborative-systemic strategy addressing the dynamics of poverty in Guatemala : converting seeming impossibilities into strategic probabilities / James L. Ritchie-Dunham
  • In search of sustainable social mission ventures to alleviate poverty / Shelby McIntyre, Albert Bruno, and Patrick Guerra
  • Scrutinizing the link between poverty and business strategy : what can we learn from the case of shuttle traders in Laleli, Istanbul? / Mine Eder and Özlem Öz
  • Alleviating poverty using microfranchising models : case studies and a critique / Lisa Jones Christensen
  • Using business to create a more vibrant craft sector / Jan Hack Katz
  • Doing well by doing good--strategizing for the bottom of the pyramid in India / Wolfgang Amann and Shiban Khan
  • Marketing in subsistence marketplaces / Madhu Viswanathan, Srinivas Sridharan, and Robin Ritchie.

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