Scaling up Business Solutions to Social Problems : A Practical Guide for Social and Corporate Entrepreneurs / by O. Kayser, V. Budinich.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kayser, O., Author.

Budinich, V., Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Business ethics.

Technological innovations.

Entrepreneurship.

New business enterprises.

Management.

Industrial management--Environmental aspects.

Industrial management.

Business Ethics.

Innovation and Technology Management.

Corporate Environmental Management.

Local Subjects:

Business Ethics.

Innovation and Technology Management.

Entrepreneurship.

Management.

Corporate Environmental Management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (250 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2015.

Place of Publication:

London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

Cover; Table of Contents; List of figures, tables and illustrations; Forewords; Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations and acronyms; About the authors; Introduction; Part 1: Solutions that work; 1 Faces of poverty; A rural Indian family; An urban family in Brazil; A rural Kenyan family; The common predicaments of the BoP around the globe; 2 Social entrepreneurs and ""system change"" strategies; Satyan - making goods and services accessible to rural communities; André - mediating land title disputes; Ron - fighting for the intellectual property of small farmers

3 Why focus on market-based social innovations?Scalability; Empowerment; 4 Cooking; First Energy; Envirofit; Toyola; Obstacles to scale and replication; 5 Lighting; SELCO - or the power of patient local value chains; Grameen Shakti - creating an entire industry; Obstacles to scale and replication of SHS; Solar lanterns - a solution for less dense environments; Between SHS and lanterns - plug and play products; Key success factors of individual solutions - quality, brands and distribution networks; Mini-utility solutions - the attractiveness of collective solutions

Mini-utility solutions - obstacles to scale and replication6 Housing; Home improvements - Cemex; Home improvements - Viste Tu Casa; New homes - Housing for All; Obstacles to scale and replication; 7 Drinking water; Mini water treatment plants - Sarvajal and Naandi; What architecture is needed to move from small networks of kiosk operators to a thriving kiosk industry?; Decentralized water networks - Balibago; How to scale up a Balibago; 8 Financial services; The hidden power of the electric utility bill - Codensa; The conspicuous magic of cell phones - M-PESA; The ubiquitous chip card - FINO

Even banks can provide banking services! - BradescoObstacles to scale and replication; 9 Boosting profitability of small farmers and micro-entrepreneurs; Amul - mobilizing three million Indian farmers; eChoupal - a rural supply chain; Light Years IP and Ethiopian coffee growers; 10 When markets fail; The limitations of market-based approaches; Regulation needed!; And what about the planet?; Part 2: Obstacles to scale; Introduction to Part 2 - The path to scale; 11 Social entrepreneurs - size or influence?; Size; Influence; Serial entrepreneurship; Which path to choose?

12 Corporations - the incumbent dilemmaThe ivy and the tree; Motivations; Multinationals: unaware, unable or unwilling?; Six lessons learned from pioneers; 13 Bridging the business-citizen sector divide through hybrid value chains; Why the innovations and core assets of social entrepreneurs and CSOs are relevant to mainstream businesses; Examples of a new type of business/social alliance; What are hybrid value chains?; Lessons learned in building HVCs; What is needed for HVCs to reach scale and full global market potential?; 14 Marketing - from needs to wants

Focus on wants of BoP families, not their needs

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781349499847

1349499846

9781137466549

1137466545