Alleviating poverty through business strategy / edited by Charles Wankel.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction: A Variety of Approaches to Alleviating Poverty through Business Strategy / Charles Wankel -- 2. The End of Foreign Aid as We Know It: The Profitable Alleviation of Poverty in a Globalized Economy / Scott Kelley, Patricia H. Werhane and Laura P. Hartman -- 3. Innovative Business Approaches and Poverty: Toward a First Evaluation / Emmanuel Raufflet, Alain Berranger and Alam Aguilar-Platas -- 4. Information and Communication Technology for Poverty Alleviation through Education and Healthcare - The India Experience / Nilay M. Yajnik -- 5. A Collaborative-Systemic Strategy Addressing the Dynamics of Poverty in Guatemala: Converting Seeming Impossibilities into Strategic Probabilities / James L. Ritchie-Dunham -- 6. In Search of Sustainable Social Mission Ventures to Alleviate Poverty / Shelby McIntyre, Albert Bruno and Patrick Guerra -- 7. Scrutinizing the Link between Poverty and Business Strategy: What Can We Learn from the Case of Shuttle Traders in Laleli, Istanbul? / Mine Eder and Ozlem Oz -- 8. Alleviating Poverty Using Microfranchising Models: Case Studies and a Critique / Lisa Jones Christensen -- 9. Using Business to Create a More Vibrant Craft Sector / Jan Hack Katz -- 10. Doing Well by Doing Good - Strategizing for the Bottom of the Pyramid in India / Wolfgang Amann and Shiban Khan -- 11. Marketing in Subsistence Marketplaces / Madhu Viswanathan, Srinivas Sridharan and Robin Ritchie.

"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 theories of business, the social sciences, and philosophy."--BOOK JACKET.