Alleviating Poverty through Business Strategy

Medientyp: E-Book
Titel: Alleviating Poverty through Business Strategy
Enthält: Cover; Table of Contents; Tables and Figures; Acknowledgments; One: Introduction: A Variety of Approaches to Alleviating Poverty through Business Strategy; Two: The End of Foreign Aid as We Know It: The Profitable Alleviation of Poverty in a Globalized Economy; Three: Innovative Business Approaches and Poverty: Toward a First Evaluation; Four: Information and Communication Technology for Poverty Alleviation through Education and Healthcare-The India Experience
Five: A Collaborative-Systemic Strategy Addressing the Dynamics of Poverty in Guatemala: Converting Seeming Impossibilities into Strategic ProbabilitiesSix: In Search of Sustainable Social Mission Ventures to Alleviate Poverty; Seven: Scrutinizing the Link between Poverty and Business Strategy: What Can We Learn from the Case of Shuttle Traders in Laleli, Istanbul?; Eight: Alleviating Poverty Using Microfranchising Models: Case Studies and a Critique; Nine: Using Business to Create a More Vibrant Craft Sector; Ten: Doing Well by Doing Good-Strategizing for the Bottom of the Pyramid in India
Eleven: Marketing in Subsistence MarketplacesList of Contributors; Index
Cover; Table of Contents; Tables and Figures; Acknowledgments; One: Introduction: A Variety of Approaches to Alleviating Poverty through Business Strategy; Two: The End of Foreign Aid as We Know It: The Profitable Alleviation of Poverty in a Globalized Economy; Three: Innovative Business Approaches and Poverty: Toward a First Evaluation; Four: Information and Communication Technology for Poverty Alleviation through Education and Healthcare-The India Experience
Five: A Collaborative-Systemic Strategy Addressing the Dynamics of Poverty in Guatemala: Converting Seeming Impossibilities into Strategic ProbabilitiesSix: In Search of Sustainable Social Mission Ventures to Alleviate Poverty; Seven: Scrutinizing the Link between Poverty and Business Strategy: What Can We Learn from the Case of Shuttle Traders in Laleli, Istanbul?; Eight: Alleviating Poverty Using Microfranchising Models: Case Studies and a Critique; Nine: Using Business to Create a More Vibrant Craft Sector; Ten: Doing Well by Doing Good-Strategizing for the Bottom of the Pyramid in India
Eleven: Marketing in Subsistence MarketplacesList of Contributors; Index

Beteiligte: Wankel, Charles [Herausgeber:in]
Erschienen: New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008
Erschienen in: SpringerLink ; Bücher
Springer eBook Collection ; Palgrave Economics & Finance Collection
Springer ebook collection / Palgrave Economics and Finance Collection 2000 - 2013
Umfang: Online-Ressource (256 p, online resource)
Sprache: Englisch
DOI: 10.1057/9780230612068
ISBN: 9780230612068
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Schlagwörter: Entwicklungsländer > Unternehmen > Soziale Verantwortung > Armut > Bekämpfung
Entwicklungsländer > Unternehmen > Soziale Verantwortung > Armut > Bekämpfung
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Anmerkungen: Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung: 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, social sciences, and philosophy

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