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Case Studies in Social Entrepreneurship and Sustainability: The oikos collection Vol. 2 de Jost Hamschmidt

Case Studies in Social Entrepreneurship and Sustainability: The oikos collection Vol. 2

Editat de Jost Hamschmidt, Michael Pirson
en Limba Engleză Hardback – iun 2011
The case studies in this second volume focus on entrepreneurs targeting sustainability issues, and how their personal values shape strategies and initiatives. The award-winning cases describe new patterns of value creation and the challenges of dealing with existing paradigms.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781906093471
ISBN-10: 1906093474
Pagini: 464
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.82 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate

Cuprins

Foreword Marina Kim, Director, Ashoka U
Preface
Part 1: Introduction
1.1 Preface
1.2 Cases in Social Entrepreneurship: What Makes an Excellent Case?
1.3 Teaching Notes
1.4 Introduction to the Cases
Part 2: Understanding the Nature of the Social Entrepreneur The Meaning of Social Entrepreneurship J. Gregory Dees, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, USA Case
1. So you want to be a social entrepreneur: Starting out, scaling up, staying committed Michael Gordon, University of Michigan, USA Case
2. Gram Vikas Imran Chowdhury, ESSEC Business School, FranceFilipe Santos, INSEAD, France Case
3. Kickstart: A business model to tackle poverty Saji Sam GeorgeV. Namratha Prasad, IBS Center for Management Research, IndiaCase
4. Kapai New Zealand: Eat Your greens! Helen Tregidga and Kate Kearins, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand Eva Collins, University of Waikato Management School, New Zealand
Part 3: Entrepreneurial action for developing inclusive markets
Case 5. Fabio Rosa: Bridging the electricity divide in Brazil Aytha Harish Vivek Gupta, IBS Center for Management Research, India
Case 6. Dr. Reddy's: Medicine is for people, profits follow Bala Chakravarthy and Sophie Coughlan, IMD, Switzerland
Case 7. Altis: A microfinance startup in Nepal Jacen Greene and Scott Marshall, Portland State University, USA
Case 8. VisionSpring: A lens for growth at the base of the pyramid Molly Christiansen Ted London, William Davidson Institute/Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, USA
Part 4: Topic spotlight: SE approaches for tackling water challenges
Case 9. Procter & Gamble's PuR Water Purifier: The hunt for a sustainable business model Lisa Jones Christensen and Jessica Thomas, Kenan Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina, USA
Case 10. Trevor Field and the PlayPumps of Africa Debapratim Purkayastha, IBS Center for Management Research, India
Case 11. WaterHealth International: providing safe drinking water to the bottom-of-the-pyramid consumers Hadiya Faheem and Debapratim Purkayastha, IBS Center for Management Research, India
Part 5. Scaling, legitimacy and profit challenges for mission-driven Organizations
Case 12. Business model innovation by Better Place: A green ecosystem for the mass adoption of electric cars Ramalingam Meenakshisundaram and Besta Shankar, IBS Center for Management Research, India
Case 13. Noir/Illumninati II Benoit Leleux, IMD Lausanne, Switzerland
Case 14. The ReUse PEOPLE: Turning scrap into sales William G. Powell and Charles J. Corbett, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), USA
Case 15. Living homes Rebecca Henn and Andrew J. Hoffman, University of Michigan, USA
Part 6: Resources
6.1 Guidelines for case writing
6.2 International case writing competitions
6.3 Case Collections and journals
6.4 About the oikos Global Case Writing Competition 6.5 About oikos 6.6 Literature

Notă biografică

Jost Hamschmidt is the Managing Director of the oikos Foundation, an international reference point for sustainability research and teaching in Business and Economics education. He is also a Lecturer at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. Jost received a master in Business Administration from the University of Kassel (Germany), a BA in Technology Management from the University of St. Etienne (France) and holds a Ph.D. in Management from the University of St. Gallen. He has been a visiting fellow at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley (2001/2) and Harvard Business School (2007/8). In 2007 he edited the volume Case Studies on Sustainability and Strategy: The oikos collection (Greenleaf Publishing) and in 2008 he co-edited the volume Sustainability Entrepreneurship and Innovation (Edward Elgar). At oikos he is responsible for fundraising and leading the oikos academic programs. In his teaching, he focuses on action-oriented learning methods for creating sustainability-driven transformation processes in small and large organizations. He has worked with social entrepreneurial ventures such as Myclimate, South Pole Carbon Asset Management, and Traktor AG. In 2010 he became founding member of The Hub Association Zurich, a Social Entrepreneurship incubator. Michael Pirson is Assistant Professor at Fordham University, New York, and a Research Fellow at Harvard University. He is also the track chair of the oikos Global Case Writing Competition - Social Entrepreneurship track. Michael received his PhD in Organizational Behavior from the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. His research focuses on the conditions of stakeholder trust in organizational contexts. He is also examining the impact of organizational design on stakeholder well-being and looks at social enterprises as humanistic alternatives to traditional business design. In his teaching, he focuses on the management dilemmas in the 21st century, such as ecological and social sustainability, stakeholder trust, employee engagement, and individual happiness. He also uses activity-based learning techniques to teach social entrepreneurship. Before receiving his doctorate, Michael worked in international management consulting for several years. He also gained experience in the political arena while working on Hillary Clinton's Senate campaign. Michael has started several social enterprises in the area of economic development and currently serves on the board of three social enterprises based in the U.S.

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The case studies in this second volume focus on entrepreneurs targeting sustainability issues, and how their personal values shape strategies and initiatives. The award-winning cases describe new patterns of value creation and the challenges of dealing with existing paradigms.