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Scaling up Business Solutions to Social Problems : A Practical Guide for Social and Corporate Entrepreneurs.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (247 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781137466549
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Scaling up Business Solutions to Social ProblemsLOC classification:
  • HF5387-5387.5
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Scaling up Business Solutions to Social Problems -- Table of Contents -- List of figures, tables and illustrations -- Forewords -- Acknowledgments -- List of abbreviations and acronyms -- About the authors -- Introduction -- Part I Solutions that work -- 1 Faces of poverty -- 2 Social entrepreneurs and "system change" strategies -- 3 Why focus on market-based social innovations? -- 4 Cooking -- 5 Lighting -- 6 Housing -- 7 Drinking water -- 8 Financial services -- 9 Boosting profitability of small farmers and micro- entrepreneurs -- 10 When markets fail -- Part 2 Obstacles to scale -- 11 Social entrepreneurs - size or influence? -- 12 Corporations - the incumbent dilemma -- 13 Bridging the business- citizen sector divide through hybrid value chains -- 14 Marketing - from needs to wants -- 15 Sales and distribution - the longest mile (or, fortune at the end of the road?) -- 16 Financing social Businesses -- 17 The role of philanthropy -- Conclusion - are we reinventing capitalism? -- References -- Select bibliography -- Index.
Summary: A silent revolution is underway, as entrepreneurs challenge prevalent notions of business motives and methods to invent market-based solutions to eradicate social injustice. Yet many fail to succeed. Based on original research, the authors uncover why impressive solutions fail to scale up, featuring global case studies and practical solutions.
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Cover -- Scaling up Business Solutions to Social Problems -- Table of Contents -- List of figures, tables and illustrations -- Forewords -- Acknowledgments -- List of abbreviations and acronyms -- About the authors -- Introduction -- Part I Solutions that work -- 1 Faces of poverty -- 2 Social entrepreneurs and "system change" strategies -- 3 Why focus on market-based social innovations? -- 4 Cooking -- 5 Lighting -- 6 Housing -- 7 Drinking water -- 8 Financial services -- 9 Boosting profitability of small farmers and micro- entrepreneurs -- 10 When markets fail -- Part 2 Obstacles to scale -- 11 Social entrepreneurs - size or influence? -- 12 Corporations - the incumbent dilemma -- 13 Bridging the business- citizen sector divide through hybrid value chains -- 14 Marketing - from needs to wants -- 15 Sales and distribution - the longest mile (or, fortune at the end of the road?) -- 16 Financing social Businesses -- 17 The role of philanthropy -- Conclusion - are we reinventing capitalism? -- References -- Select bibliography -- Index.

A silent revolution is underway, as entrepreneurs challenge prevalent notions of business motives and methods to invent market-based solutions to eradicate social injustice. Yet many fail to succeed. Based on original research, the authors uncover why impressive solutions fail to scale up, featuring global case studies and practical solutions.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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