Scaling up business solutions to social problems : a practical guide for social and corporate entrepreneurs /

A silent revolution is underway, initiated by social entrepreneurs, pragmatist visionaries who are challenging prevalent business motives and methods to invent market-based solutions to eradicate social injustice. Yet, many fail to succeed and reach real scale, and there are few books that question...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Kayser, Olivier (Autor), Budinich, Maria Valeria (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Basingstoke Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Temas:
Social entrepreneurship.
Social responsibility of business.
Entrepreneuriat social.
Entreprises > Responsabilité sociale.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industrial Management.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Management.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Management Science.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Organizational Behavior.
Social entrepreneurship
Social responsibility of business
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Forewords / BIll Drayton, Emmanuel Faber
  • Part 1: Solutions That Work
  • 1. Faces of poverty
  • 2. Social entrepreneurs and "system change" strategies
  • 3. Why focus on market-based social solutions?
  • 4. Cooking
  • 5. Lighting
  • 6. Housing
  • 7. Drinking water
  • 8. Financial services
  • 9. Boosting profitability of small farmers and micro-entrepreneurs
  • 10. When markets fail
  • Part 2: Obstacles to Scale
  • 11. Social entrepreneurs
  • size or influence?
  • 12. Corporations
  • the incumbent dilemma
  • 13. Bridging the business-citizen sector divide through hybrid value chains
  • 14. Marketing
  • from needs to wants
  • 15. Sales and distribution
  • the longest mile (or, fortune at the end of the road?)
  • 16. Financing social businesses
  • 17. The role of philanthropy.

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