Alleviating Poverty Through Business Strategy

by Charles Wankel

Overview

Alleviating Poverty through Business Strategy begins with an overview of the current global economic landscape and a criticism of the failed strategies for poverty alleviation over the last fifty years. The way in which the for-profit model can be harnessed to provide the poor with a share in the world's prosperity is then discussed and shown through actual experiences and cases, and nested in innovative theories of business, the social sciences, and philosophy. This volume is part of the growing realization that business development is the most effective weapon in fighting world poverty.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230264359
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date:	03/04/2008
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Charles Wankel is associate professor of Management at Peter J. Tobin College of Business, St. John's University.

Table of Contents

Tables and Figures vii

Acknowledgments ix

1 Introduction: A Variety of Approaches to Alleviating Poverty through Business Strategy Charles Wankel 1

2 The End of Foreign Aid as We Know It: The Profitable Alleviation of Poverty in a Globalized Economy Scott Kelley Patricia H. Werhane Laura P. Hartman 5

3 Innovative Business Approaches and Poverty: Toward a First Evaluation Emmanuel Raufflet Alain Berranger Alam Aguilar-Platas 33

4 Information and Communication Technology for Poverty Alleviation through Education and Healthcare—The India Experience Nilay M. Yajnik 61

5 A Collaborative-Systemic Strategy Addressing the Dynamics of Poverty in Guatemala: Converting Seeming Impossibilities into Strategic Probabilities James L. Ritchie-Dunham 73

6 In Search of Sustainable Social Mission Ventures to Alleviate Poverty Shelby McIntyre Albert Bruno Patrick Guerra 99

7 Scrutinizing the Link between Poverty and Business Strategy: What Can We Learn from the Case of Shuttle Traders in Laleli, Istanbul? Mine Eder Özlem Öz 123

8 Alleviating Poverty Using Microfranchising Models: Case Studies and a Critique Lisa Jones Christensen 149

9 Using Business to Create a More Vibrant Craft Sector Jan Hack Katz 171

10 Doing Well by Doing Good—Strategizing for the Bottom of the Pyramid in India Wolfgang Amann Shiban Khan 191

11 Marketing in Subsistence Marketplaces Madhu Viswanathan Srinivas Sridharan Robin Ritchie 209

List of Contributors 233

Index 239