Building Social Business: The New Kind of Capitalism That Serves Humanity's Most Pressing Needs

By M. Yunus, K. Matthias Weber. 2010

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Building Partnerships to Create Social and Economic Value at the Base of the Global Development Pyramid (2013, background): “…of microfinance lending in Bangladesh and elsewhere suggests that loans are not repaid and small ventures do not prosper unless the community (often embodied in a core group of local women) has sufficient social capital to hold borrowers accountable to community norms (Yunus and Weber 2010).”
The Impact of Microfinance in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Systematic Review of the Evidence (2012, background): “Further, an increase in the commercialization of the industry has been met with suspicion and concerns around the ethics of making money from the poor, and talk of “mission drift”, even within the microfinance industry (Chang, 2007; Fernando, 2006; Karnani, 2009; Weber, 2006; Yunus & Weber, 2010).”
Delineating the Domain of Development Entrepreneurship: A Market–Based Approach to Facilitating Inclusive Economic Growth (2011, background): “SBE that does not directly seek to change formal institutional arrangements—e.g., see Yunus (2007, 2010)—is extremely helpful in reducing human misery, as are the efforts of many NGOs (Fowler, 2000), but these organizations treat the symptoms rather than the root cause of extreme poverty.”
Personality Traits, Social Self-Efficacy, Social Support, and Social Entrepreneurial Intention: The Moderating Role of Gender (2021, background): “For example, Mohammad Yunus brought a social business model focussing on social problem solving while attaining profitability, self-sustainability, and empowerment (Yunus 2017; Yunus 2011).”
Venturing for Others with Heart and Head: How Compassion Encourages Social Entrepreneurship (2012, background): “Second, integrative thinking can result in viewing beneficiaries as customers rather than passive recipients of a gift (Yunus, 2010).”
Framing inclusive innovation within the discourse of development: Insights from case studies in India (2018, background): “Inspired at least in part by what Levidow and Papaioannou (2017) describe as a ‘liberal-individualist’ mind-set, the poor could now be now positioned as consumers (Prahalad, 2010), entrepreneurs (London and Hart, 2011) and aspirational, ‘successful individuals’ (Yunus, 2010).”