Impact at the ‘Bottom of the Pyramid’: The Role of Social Capital in Capability Development and Community Empowerment

By Shahzad Ansari, Kamal Munir, Tricia Gregg. 2012

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Subfields: Business and International Management, Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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NGOs’ Initiatives to Enhance Social Sustainability in the Supply Chain: Poverty Alleviation Through Supplier Development Programs (2016, unknown): “First, our research incorporates the suggestions made by previous research (Ansari et al., 2012; Kolk et al., 2014; Sodhi & Tang, 2014) and proposes a theoretical framework of the resources used to undertake supply management practices for poverty alleviation.”
Social Intermediation in Base‐of‐the‐Pyramid Markets (2013, unknown): “While the appeal of such exorbitant profits would typically attract other intermediaries as competitors, or incentivize the supplier and buyer to transact directly, intermediaries within BOP markets are often adept at maintaining control over information where communication and other infrastructures”
Innovation for Inclusive Growth: Towards a Theoretical Framework and a Research Agenda (2012, background): “Equally, sociological theory has a lot to say about how organizations go about framing and legitimizing new institutions and practices (Ansari et al., 2012).”
Digital Sustainability and Entrepreneurship: How Digital Innovations Are Helping Tackle Climate Change and Sustainable Development (2020, background): “Others have drawn attention to capability perspectives ( Ansari et al., 2012) and to dynamic institutional fields in “entrepreneurial contexts relevant to grand challenges and wicked problems” (Briscoe et al., 2018).”
Social Entrepreneurship Research: Past Achievements and Future Promises (2018, unknown): “, 2004), foster inclusive growth in subsistence marketplaces (Ansari et al., 2012; Azmat et al., 2015), and bring about institutional change (Nicholls, 2010).”
Microfinance and the business of poverty reduction: Critical perspectives from rural Bangladesh (2017, background): “Emerging research on base-of-pyramid (BoP) approaches to poverty reduction and empowerment of poor populations suggests that market-based initiatives directed at impoverished communities can leverage their social capital to develop capabilities that could lift them out of poverty (Ansari et al., 201”
Corporate Social Responsibility in Developing Countries as an Emerging Field of Study (2018, unknown): “…Galang 2014), transaction cost economics (e.g. Bhanji and Oxley 2013), capitalism theory (e.g. Amaeshi and Amao 2009), Sen’s capability approach (e.g. Ansari et al. 2012) slack resource theory (e.g. Julian and Ofori-dankwa 2013), critical postcolonial theory (e.g. Khan and Lund-Thomsen 2011) and…”