Entrepreneurship and sustainability : business solutions for poverty alleviation from around the world /

In Entrepreneurship and Sustainability the editors and contributors challenge the notion that not-for-profit social entrepreneurship is the only sort that can lead to the alleviation of poverty. Entrepreneurship for profit is not just about the entrepreneur doing well. Entrepreneurs worldwide are le...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Halkias, Daphne, Thurman, Paul W.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Farnham : Ashgate Publishing Ltd, 2012.
Temas:
Social entrepreneurship.
Poverty > Developing countries.
Social entrepreneurship > Case studies.
Poverty > Developing countries > Case studies.
Entrepreneuriat social.
Entrepreneuriat social > Études de cas.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Poverty & Homelessness.
Poverty.
Developing countries.
Case studies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • PART I: PROLOGUE; Prologue: Entrepreneurship and Sustainability: Can Business Really Alleviate Poverty?; Introduction: Business Fights Poverty: How Enterprise, Technology and People are Changing the Way; PART II: ASIA; Chapter 1 China: Entrepreneurship and Poverty Alleviation: A Chinese Case Study; Chapter 2 Lebanon: Does Microcredit Alleviate Poverty? Entrepreneurship and Sustainability.
  • Chapter 3 Malaysia: Entrepreneurship and Sustainability in Malaysia: Business Solutions for PovertyChapter 4 New Zealand: Innovation in Poverty Research: Developing Measurements for Monitoring; Chapter 5 Pakistan: The Pro-poor Innovative Female Entrepreneur: Linking Grassroots Enterprises; Chapter 6 The Philippines: An Entrepreneur's Contribution to Poverty Alleviation in the Philippines; PART III: AFRICA; Chapter 7 East Africa: Ethnic Supplies: Empowering African Women through Sustainable; Chapter 8 Nigeria: Poverty Alleviation Consequences of Rural Educational Enterprise.
  • Chapter 9 South Africa: Empowering Women Entrepreneurs in the Fight against PovertyChapter 10 Uganda: Noir/Illuminati II: Defining Socially Responsible Affordable Luxury Clothing; Chapter 11 Zambia: A Collaborative Multi-Stakeholder Approach to Entrepreneurship Skills; PART IV: EUROPE; Chapter 12 Cyprus: The Women's Cooperative Bank; Chapter 13 Czech Republic: Social Entrepreneurship in the Czech Republic; Chapter 14 Greece: Mastiha from the Island of Chios, Greece: A Case of Sustainable and Distributed; Chapter 15 Italy: The Interplay between Sustainability and Family Entrepreneurship.
  • Chapter 16 Russia: Entrepreneurship and Sustainability: Business Solutions for Poverty AlleviationChapter 17 Scotland: Cutting It: Creating Space for the Knowledge Intensive Economy; Chapter 18 United Kingdom: Can Issues of Poverty be Addressed through the Emergence of Relationally; PART V: THE AMERICAS; Chapter 19 Columbia: "Kambirí", an Entrepreneurial Alternative for Afro-Descendent Women Displaced; Chapter 20 California, USA: Supporting the Green Economy in India: Driving Global Change through.
  • Chapter 21 South Carolina, USA: Sustainability and Social Responsibility in a Family Sandwich ShopEpilogue; Index.

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