Business & Economics
The Entrepreneurial Solution to Poverty and the Science of What is Possible
Author: Fiet, James O.
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 9781803924397
Category: Business & Economics
Page: 224
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Engaging and accessible, The Entrepreneurial Solution to Poverty and the Science of What is Possible examines the systematic practice of poverty alleviation. Using the science of informational economics (IE), based on leveraging specific information, as well as decades’ worth of experimental evidence, James Fiet demonstrates how poverty may be mitigated through entrepreneurial practices.The Entrepreneurial Solution to Poverty and the Science of What Is Possible
Author: James O. Fiet
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 1803924381
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Page: 232
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Engaging and accessible, The Entrepreneurial Solution to Poverty and the Science of What is Possible examines the systematic practice of poverty alleviation. Using the science of informational economics (IE), based on leveraging specific information, as well as decades' worth of experimental evidence, James Fiet demonstrates how poverty may be mitigated through entrepreneurial practices. This visionary book suggests a number of key practical methods by which poverty can be alleviated, even without resources or personal connections. Classifying IE as 'the science of what is possible', Fiet demonstrates how to substitute information - the lowest common denominator of what individuals already possess or can acquire - for resources. The book employs 30 years of experimental results as the basis for its entrepreneurial approach to poverty alleviation, inviting its readers to extend the science of what is possible and succeed regardless of their circumstances. Holding the potential to alter how work is approached and carried out in the area of poverty alleviation, the innovative ideas explored in this book will be of significant interest and inspiration to researchers and students, but also beyond academia to government agencies, foundations, and charities, as well as individuals and organizations invested in solving the problem of poverty.
Business & Economics
The Business Solution to Poverty
Author: Paul Polak
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
ISBN: 9781609940782
Category: Business & Economics
Page: 266
View: 578
Authors Paul Polak and Mal Warwick describe their Zero-Based Design of starting from scratch to create innovative products and services tailored for the very poor to show how their design principles and vision can enable unapologetic capitalists to supply the very poor with clean drinking water, electricity, irrigation, housing, education, health care, and other necessities at a fraction of the usual cost and at profit margins attractive to investors.
Business & Economics
Informational Entrepreneurship in a World with Limited Insight
Author: James O. Fiet
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 9783031165320
Category: Business & Economics
Page: 353
View: 832
This book organizes entrepreneurship theory in a way that constitutes a new body of knowledge, which is Informational Entrepreneurship. It can serve as a basis for teaching entrepreneurship and reducing performance uncertainty. Although entrepreneurship is not entirely about information, information determines how it can be systematically understood while depending less on luck. It also offers the only known, experimentally tested approach that incorporates decision support tools. Other known approaches rely on exposition for validation; whereas, Informational Entrepreneurship uses two-sample experiments that controlled for other explanations as well as experimenter bias. It will appeal to those studying and teaching entrepreneurship who are looking for a prescriptive approach, rather than a descriptive approach.
Business & Economics
A Corporate Solution to Global Poverty
Author: George Lodge
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691171173
Category: Business & Economics
Page: 213
View: 516
World leaders have given the reduction of global poverty top priority. And yet it persists. Indeed, in many countries whose governments lack either the desire or the ability to act, poverty has worsened. This book, a joint venture of a Harvard professor and an economist with the International Finance Corporation, argues that the solution lies in the creation of a new institution, the World Development Corporation (WDC), a partnership of multinational corporations (MNCs), international development agencies, and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). In A Corporate Solution to Global Poverty, George Lodge and Craig Wilson assert that MNCs have the critical combination of capabilities required to build investment, grow economies, and create jobs in poor countries, and thus to reduce poverty. Furthermore, they can do so profitably and thus sustainably. But they lack legitimacy and risk can be high, and so a collective approach is better than one in which an individual company proceeds alone. Thus a UN-sponsored WDC, owned and managed by a dozen or so MNCs with NGO support, will make a marked difference. At a time when big business has been demonized for destroying the environment, enjoying one-sided benefits from globalization, and deceiving investors, the book argues, MNCs have much to gain from becoming more effective in reducing global poverty. This is not a call for philanthropy. Lodge and Wilson believe that corporate support for the World Development Corporation will benefit not only the world's poor but also company shareholders as a result of improved MNC legitimacy and stronger markets and profitability.
Business & Economics
Routledge Handbook of Entrepreneurship in Developing Economies
Author: Colin C. Williams
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781317535157
Category: Business & Economics
Page: 597
View: 470
The Routledge Handbook of Entrepreneurship in Developing Economies is a landmark volume that offers a uniquely comprehensive overview of entrepreneurship in developing countries. Addressing the multi-faceted nature of entrepreneurship, chapters explore a vast range of subject areas including education, economic policy, gender and the prevalence and nature of informal sector entrepreneurship. In order to understand the process of new venture creation in developing economies, what it means to be engaged in entrepreneurship in a developing world context must be addressed. This handbook does so by exploring the difficulties, risks and rewards associated with being an entrepreneur, and evaluates the impacts of the environment, relationships, performance and policy dynamics on small and entrepreneurial firms in developing economies. The handbook brings together a unique collection of over forty international researchers who are all actively engaged in studying entrepreneurship in a developing world context. The chapters offer concise but detailed perspectives and explanations on key aspects of the subject across a diverse array of developing economies, spanning Africa, Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe. In doing so, the chapters highlight the heterogeneity of entrepreneurship in developed economies, and contribute to the on-going policy discourses for managing and promoting entrepreneurial growth in the developing world. The book will be of great interest to scholars, students and policymakers in the areas of development economics, business and management, public policy and development studies.
Business & Economics
Business, Entrepreneurship and Innovation Toward Poverty Reduction
Author: Steven Si
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781000425888
Category: Business & Economics
Page: 260
View: 394
Ways in which poverty can be reduced in both countries and regions through business, entrepreneurship and government has been a hot issue for researchers and policymakers in recent years. Governments can play an important role in helping the poor people by non-profit organizations and others that help to seed business among the poor. Businesses increasingly also see the large number of people in severe poverty not only as an issue for social concern, but also as a potentially large untapped market of consumers for goods and services. Some scholars have called for poverty reduction through entrepreneurship owing to the fact that it can be an efficient path to also change the poor's attitudes and behaviours from a passive mode, to a more active mode towards poverty reduction economically and socially. In addition, the sharing economy brings opportunities where everyone is a micro-entrepreneur. There is a recognition that these types of entrepreneurship above could offer the greatest single potential means to move individuals out of poverty in the nations and regions in the next 5-10 years. This book provides new and valuable analyses of poverty and business, entrepreneurship and innovation in current nations and regions including developing and developed countries. As business, entrepreneurship and innovation can help to generate greater business activity in settings of severe poverty, they will help to solve poverty, as individuals in severe poverty are able to both generate greater incomes and accumulate greater assets as they participate with large firms in those activities. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the Entrepreneurship & Regional Development.
Business & Economics
Poverty and Entrepreneurship in Developed Economies
Author: Michael H. Morris
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 9781788111546
Category: Business & Economics
Page: 264
View: 520
While extensively explored as a solution to poverty at the base of the pyramid, this is the first in-depth examination of entrepreneurship and the poor within advanced economies. The authors explore the underlying nature of poverty and draw implications for new venture creation. Entrepreneurship is presented as a source of empowerment that represents an alternative pathway out of poverty.
Business & Economics
Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship
Author: Luis Portales
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9783030134563
Category: Business & Economics
Page: 207
View: 754
Social entrepreneurship and social innovation both seek to improve the world through social change. Whereas social entrepreneurship revolves around the business side of change, social innovation focuses on the processes through which that change is generated. This textbook provides a comprehensive analysis of both topics, covering all the characteristics and elements of social innovation and social entrepreneurship, from a conceptual and practical perspective. The book has four sections: 1) Basics and concepts of Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship; 2) Business models and generation of value in social enterprises; 3) Social innovation within traditional companies, and 4) Definition and alignment of the impact of social innovation and entrepreneurship. Students and any practitioners that want to know about social innovation or social entrepreneurship will be exposed to contemporary topics in the field as well as a variety of cases and tools for its development. With its learning objectives, reflective questions, the definition of key concepts, and exercises, this book is the definitive text for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in social innovation and social entrepreneurship.
Business & Economics
International Business
Author: Shad Morris
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 9781119876885
Category: Business & Economics
Page: 434
View: 764
An incisive and comprehensive exploration of international business in the modern world In the newly updated third edition of International Business, an accomplished team of educators and business practitioners delivers a revitalized approach to the discipline that brings international business to life. This latest edition of the book includes one-of-a-kind chapters on sustainability, poverty, and innovation, as well as new Mini-Simulation activities, explorations of the Covid-19 pandemic and its effects on commerce, the business implications of social and civic justice, race, and inequality debates, new whiteboard animations, a video and podcast series, and new case studies on equity, diversity, and inclusion at Microsoft. International Business efficiently prepares students for the global economy and transforms the authors' impressive international experience at multi-national corporations into an indispensable pedagogical resource.
Business & Economics
Business Solutions for the Global Poor
Author: V. Kashturi Rangan
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0787988545
Category: Business & Economics
Page: 450
View: 433
Based on research presented at The Harvard Business School’s first-ever conference on business approaches to poverty alleviation, Business Solutions for the Global Poor brings together perspectives from leading academics and corporate, non-profit and public sector managers. The contributors draw on practical and dynamic how-to insights from leading BOP ventures from more than twenty countries world-wide. This important volume reflects poverty’s multi-faceted nature and a broad range of actors—multinational and local businesses, entrepreneurs, civil society organizations and governments—that play a role in its alleviation.
Business & Economics
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Applied Economics and Social Science, ICAESS 2022, 5 October 2022, Batam, Riau Islands, Indonesia
Author: Dedi Kurniawan
Publisher: European Alliance for Innovation
ISBN: 9781631903786
Category: Business & Economics
Page: 583
View: 477
This volume contains a collection of papers presented at The 4th International Conference on Applied Economics and Social Science (ICAESS) 2022, which was held on 5th October 2022, In Batam, Indonesia online. Batam is the city of Politeknik Negeri Batam, which organized ICAESS. This conference’s aim is to showcase research applications conducted by researchers. The research gap between academics and industries had become a significant challenge which is expected to be addressed during the conference. Our theme is "Responding the Era of Metaverse for Future Applied Technology". We have keynote speakers that delivering talks for the digital marketplace: Dr Hj Mohammad Nabil Almunawar, metaverse for education: Prof. Yusep Rosmanyah, S.T., M.Sc, PhD, and industry 4.0: Ashwani Singh, PhD. We are indebted to them, we hope their research continues successfully. ICAESS has 4 tracks including Economics Track, Accountings Track, Managements Track, and Social Sciences Track. We received 112 papers addressing topics in line from the tracks, including Economic Development, Accounting Theory, Business Administration, Development Studies and other related fields. We accepted 50 articles, with an acceptance rate of 45%. Special thanks to the Organizing Committee members along with the numerous reviewers for their assistance with the reviews of the submitted manuscripts. Finally, we sincerely express gratitude to all the participants, and the authors for all their work, thus making this conference a success. We also want to thank the staff of EAI for their help in making this publication possible.