Socially Responsive Organizations & the Challenge of Poverty

ISBN-13: 9781783530595 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 296 str.

Milenko Gudic; Al Rosenbloom; Carole Parkes

Opis

* Case studies and research on how organizations are working to alleviate local and global poverty
* Provides conceptual and research rationales for why management education must address the issue of poverty
* The first part of a book series by the PRME Working Group on Poverty

This book provides a combination of case studies and current action research describing how businesses and civil society organizations are working to alleviate poverty in local and global communities. It provides conceptual and research rationales for why management education and management institutions must address the issue of poverty. The book responds to one of the major findings from the research of the PRME Working Group on Poverty that the topic of poverty still lacks a strong business case for management educators and program/institutional administrators.

The distinctive features of this book are that it: (1) includes examples of small and medium-sized (SME) businesses; (2) deals with the issue of poverty as a human rights violation; (3) explores the issue of absolute versus relative poverty; (4) deals with leadership challenges in organizations committed to poverty alleviation; and (5) discusses the issues in terms of management education's responsibility for setting new management, research, institutional and intellectual agendas.

The first of two books to be produced by the PRME Working Group on Poverty, Socially Responsible Organizations and the Challenge of Poverty provides both researchers and practitioners with the most wide-ranging coverage yet published on how business can be a positive force in alleviating poverty and how management education needs to adapt to this increasingly crucial prerogative.

Spis treści

Fighting poverty as a challenge for business and management education: Socially responsive organisations and the challenge of povertyMilenkoGudić, Carole Parkes and AlRosenbloomSection 1. What are the issues?1. Human poverty – measuring relative deprivation from basic achievements: A comparative study for 144 countries over the period 1990–2010Ewa Lechman2. Poverty in the context of Africa: poorest of the poor? Charles A. Malgwi3. Integrating energy into poverty dialogueWilliam M. O’Keefe and Hsu O’Keefe4. Fighting poverty at the bottom of the pyramid: Case studies on water market projects Elio Borgonovi, Paola Roberta Boscolo and Francesca Calò5. Poverty, human rights and responsibilitiesGary Lynch-Wood6. Inclusiveness in BoP venturesNicolas Chevrollier, Andre Nijhof, Wendy van der Klein and Michiel Brandt7. Measuring businesses’ inclusiveness: New drivers from the inclusive market approach Cláudio Bruzzi Boechat, Junia Faria, Mariana Pimenta and Marília Carneiro FerreiraCase study 1:Fighting poverty as a challenge for business and management education: Developing business models for alleviating poverty: a case study of Stora Enso in Lao PDRBrita Prejer, Sebastian Levall and Cecilia Mark-HerbertCase study 2:Lend Lease: An inclusive approach to fighting povertyVal Lowman, OBESection 2: What are the global, regional and local leadership challenges?8. CSOs in marginalised communities: The case of the informal settlements of Buenos AiresAnn Mitchell9. Slum tourism and its controversies from a management perspective Fabian Frenzel10. How does Brazil fight contemporary slavery?: A research and education agenda in managementAndré Ofenhejm Mascarenhas, Sylmara Lopes Francelino Gonçalves Dias and Rodrigo Martins Baptista11. Poverty in a contested terrain: The case of PalestineLama Al-Arda12. The condition of the Roma population in Bosnia and Herzegovina Željka Jungić, Tarik Palić, Subha Halitović and Lejla SivicCase study 3:Creating Difference: The story of Vindhya E-Infomedia Private LimitedSmita Shukla and Kavita LaghateCase study 4:Milk Start by Danone Poland: Serving the BOP market through innovative partnershipAleksandra WąsowskaCase study 5:Offering sustainable housing solutions to low-income clients: Business opportunity or Corporate Social Responsibility?Stefanie KochCase study 6:A co-operative approach to caring for those who can’t afford to care for themselves: OzHarvestSharon Ayson13. Fighting poverty through practical, integrated and multidisciplinary education: The case of Master programmes in Development PracticeMarco Tavanti and Emanuele Antonio VedraminiSection 3: What are management education’s responses? And what are the implications?Case study 7:Tackling youth unemployment through leadership training: GoBeyond ProjectClaudio Andres RiveraCase study 8:‘Partners in Learning’ on the front lines of poverty: Relationships that educate and motivateDiane M. KelloggCase study 9:The university and poverty alleviationWendy Cukier, Mark Robert Holmes and Rachel KwanSection 4: What lies ahead?14.Strategic Design in marginalised social contexts: The designer’s action within contextual forcesChiara Del Gaudio, Alfredo Jefferson de Oliveira and Carlo Franzato15. Crowdsourcing in developing countries: A possible model to co-create with the poorMartina Berardi, Marcello Tonelli and Luigi Serio16. A new perspective for management education: From ignorance, mental poverty and technocratic knowledge to self-awareness and phronesisLoukas N. AnninosConcluding reflectionMilenko Gudić, Carole Parkes and Al RosenbloomAbout the editorsIndex

O autorze

Milenko Gudi?, Al Rosenbloom, Carole Parkes