Sourcing for the base of the pyramid: Constructing supply chains to address voids in subsistence markets

By Anne Parmigiani, M. Rivera-Santos. 2015

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Subfields: Business and International Management

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4. Diane Holt
5. D. Littlewood
6. Ans Kolk
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Citations in the corpus

• The Social Responsibility of International Business: From Ethics and the Environment to CSR and Sustainable Development (2016, unknown): “A recent example is Parmigiani and Rivera-Santos (2015), who analyzed MNEs’ BOP initiatives from a supply-chain view (resources/raw materials, production, distribution, marketing/ sales), in relation to five types of institutional voids (product, labor and capital market, contracting and regulatory…”
• Social innovation in emerging economies: A National Systems of Innovation based approach (2017, background): “Overall, the findings have wider implications for research on subsistence markets and social value creation in base-of-the-pyramid business models (Kolk, 2014; Parmigiani & Rivera-Santos, 2015; Sinkovics, et al., 2014).”
• Social Entrepreneurship in South Africa: Exploring the Influence of Environment (2018, background): “…Mauksch, Darkow & von der Gracht, 2014), and how characteristics such as the relative importance of formal and informal institutions (Rivera-Santos, Rufín, & Kolk, 2012), and the quality of economic and physical infrastructures (Partzsch & Ziegler, 2011) impact the emergence of such ventures.”
• How global is international CSR research? Insights and recommendations from a systematic review (2017, background): “Over the past few years, scholars have stressed the need to focus on such voids when assessing fi rms ’ operations in developing regions in general (e.g., Mol, Stadler, & Ariño, 2017; Parmigiani & Rivera-Santos, 2015), and concerning their CSR practices in particular (e.g., Kolk, 2016).”
• NGOs’ Initiatives to Enhance Social Sustainability in the Supply Chain: Poverty Alleviation Through Supplier Development Programs (2016, unknown): “Parmigiani and Rivera-Santos (2015) have suggested that managers should find mechanisms to fill these voids.”