Socially Responsive Organizations & the Challenge of Poverty

Al Rosenbloom, Carole Parkes, Milenko Gudić

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2017
• Topic: Economics
• eBook ISBN:
  9781351287821
• Subtopic: Business General
• Index: Economics

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 intends to provide 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 Responsive Organizations and The Challenge of Poverty aims to provide 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.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Fighting poverty as a challenge for business and management education
• Section I What are the issues?
• 1 Human poverty—measuring relative deprivation from basic achievements
• 2 Poverty in the context of Africa: poorest of the poor?
• 3 Integrating energy into poverty dialogue
• 4 Fighting poverty at the bottom of the pyramid
• 5 Poverty, human rights and responsibilities
• 6 Inclusiveness in BoP ventures
• 7 Measuring businesses’ inclusiveness
• Case study 1 Fighting poverty as a challenge for business and management education
• Case study 2 Lend Lease
• Section 2 What are the global, regional and local leadership challenges?
• 8 CSOs in marginalised communities
• 9 Slum tourism and its controversies from a management perspective
• 10 How does Brazil fight contemporary slavery?
• 11 Poverty in a contested terrain
• 12 The condition of the Roma population in Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Case study 3 Creating Difference
• Case study 4 Milk Start by Danone Poland
• Case study 5 Offering sustainable housing solutions to low-income clients
• Case study 6 A co-operative approach to caring for those who can’t afford to care for themselves
• 13 Fighting poverty through practical, integrated and multidisciplinary education
• Section 3 What are management education’s responses? And what are the implications?
• Case study 7 Tackling youth unemployment through leadership training
• Case study 8 ‘Partners in Learning’ on the front lines of poverty
• Case study 9 The university and poverty alleviation
• Section 4 What lies ahead?
• 14 Strategic Design in marginalised social contexts
• 15 Crowdsourcing in developing countries
• 16 A new perspective for management education
• Concluding reflection
• About the editors
• Index