Socially Responsible Distribution: Distribution Strategies for Reaching the Bottom of the Pyramid

By S. Vachani, N. Smith. 2008

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Subfields: Business and International Management, Economics and Econometrics, Urban Studies

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The quest for the fortune at the bottom of the pyramid: potential and challenges (2008, background): “$120. There is some data on the changes in the size of the BOP that aid in forecasting the future. Chen and Ravallion (2007) report a decline in the proportion of people living under the poverty line in the developing world over the period 19812004.”
Sourcing for the base of the pyramid: Constructing supply chains to address voids in subsistence markets (2015, unknown): “There is some work that explores the http://dx.doi. challenges of BOP distribution and marketing (London and Hart, 2004; Seelos and Mair, 2007; Vachani and Smith, 2008), but little on upstream supply chains.”
A holistic market conceptualization (2015, background): “They have argued that there is a functional need to collaborate (leverage on existing social capital) with non-market actors such as communities, non-profit organizations, and governments in order to make a market (Gradl et al. 2008; Vachani and Smith 2008).”
Bottom-of-the-Pyramid: Organizational Barriers to Implementation (2009, background): “, lack of infrastructure, corruption of local governments, problems with distribution networks, low educational levels, and lack of buying power.(8) Although external factors are most certainly important, they do not account for the internal organizational barriers that, regardless of the external c”
Challenges in Marketing Socially Useful Goods to the Poor (2010, background): “Creating socially responsible distribution is essential for the success of market-based solutions to poverty.(36) At the same time, creating a distribution network to reach the poor might be too expensive and contribute to the commercial failure of the project.”
Sustainable Business Models: A Review (2019, background): “7 billion people, representing around half of the global population, have an income of less than $2 a day [72].”
Social Intermediation in Base‐of‐the‐Pyramid Markets (2013, unknown): “To the extent that trade does exist across greater distances, and outside of informal networks, it typically funnels through a very small number of third-party middlemen (Vachani and Smith, 2008; Varadarajan, 1984).”
Supply‐Chain Research Opportunities with the Poor as Suppliers or Distributors in Developing Countries (2014, background): “Most of the research, as of this writing, is exploratory and is in the form of case studies (cf. Haksoz et al. 2012, London et al. 2010, and Vachani and Smith 2008), although Chen et al. (2013), Devalkar et al. (2011) and McCoy (2012) provide welcome ﬁrst steps toward modeling of speciﬁc situations.”