SELCO Solar Light Private Limited : a social enterprises scaling up challenge / Ram Subramanian.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Subramanian, Ram, author.

Series:

SAGE Knowledge. Cases.

SAGE Knowledge. Cases

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

SELCO Solar Light Private Limited.

Energy industries--India--Case studies.

Energy industries.

Solar energy--India--Case studies.

Solar energy.

Social responsibility of business.

India.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

London : SAGE Publications Ltd, 2017.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Launched by Dr Harish Hande in 1995, SELCO Solar Light Private Limited was a Bengaluru, India-based social venture whose mission was to bring solar energy to the bottom-of-the-pyramid customers. In February 2014, the company had weathered a number of challenges in its start-up phase and had succeeded in becoming a profitable venture without veering from its social mission. However, Hande and his team faced a number of challenges in scaling up the business. An early foray into franchising had failed, while a more recent venture to create replicas of the company (called Baby SELCOs) in other parts of India had gotten off to a slow start. Given that nearly 300 million people in India had no access to electricity, SELCOs decentralized and low-cost model had tremendous opportunities. The inflection point that SELCO faced was in choosing the best way to leverage the immense potential for solar energy in India without compromising its social mission.

Notes:

Originally published: Subramanian, R. (2015). SELCO Solar Light Private Limited: A Social Enterprises Scaling Up Challenge. Asian Journal of Management Cases, 12(2), 172182. DOI:.

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ISBN:

9781526405500

OCLC:

1017720569

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