Alleviating poverty through business strategy
By: edited by Charles Wankel.
Contributors: Wankel, Charles.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9781403984500
Subjects: Social entrepreneurship -- Case studies; Poverty -- Developing countries -- Case studies; Poverty -- Prevention
Genres: Case studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : a variety of approaches to alleviating poverty through business strategy / Charles Wankel; title: 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; title: Innovative business approaches and poverty : toward a first evaluation / Emmanuel Raufflet, Alain Berranger, and Alam Aguilar-Platas; title: Information and communication technology for poverty alleviation through education and healthcare-the India experience / Nilay M. Yajnik; title: A collaborative-systemic strategy addressing the dynamics of poverty in Guatemala : converting seeming impossibilities into strategic probabilities / James L. Ritchie-Dunham; title: In search of sustainable social mission ventures to alleviate poverty / Shelby McIntyre, Albert Bruno, and Patrick Guerra; title: 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; title: Alleviating poverty using microfranchising models : case studies and a critique / Lisa Jones Christensen; title: Using business to create a more vibrant craft sector / Jan Hack Katz; title: Doing well by doing good-strategizing for the bottom of the pyramid in India / Wolfgang Amann and Shiban Khan; title: Marketing in subsistence marketplaces / Madhu Viswanathan, Srinivas Sridharan, and Robin Ritchie.