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Frugal Innovation for Inclusive and Sustainable Development in Africa
Advanced Research in Economics and Business Strategy JournalFrugal innovation has emerged as a promising approach to addressing the unique challenges and resource constraints African communities face. This article presents a comprehensive analysis of the key principles, frameworks, and case studies of frugal ...
Pitshou Moleka
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Impact Investing and Inclusive Business Development in Africa: A research agenda [PDF]
, 2015 Impact investing aims to create sustainable social and environmental impacts for investee enterprises and communities as well as adequate financial returns.
Korda, Alex +2 more
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‘Clinging Together Against the Dark’: A Pragmatist Reading of Sustainability Conversations
Business Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In this paper, we present a typology of managers' interpretations of sustainability as ‘narrative fields’ derived from a qualitative multi‐site study and offer a Pragmatist reading of the results. Pragmatism is grounded in an ethic of meliorism, the belief in the possibility of gradually improving the world through human effort and ...
Barry A. Colbert, Elizabeth C. Kurucz
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Creativity and Innovation Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In resource‐constrained environments, frugal innovation has emerged as an essential entrepreneurial strategy. It allows firms to develop efficient, affordable and sustainable solutions to meet the needs of low‐income consumer markets. This increasing demand necessitates a deeper understanding of the mechanisms that foster frugal innovation ...
Chunyan Li +3 more
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Agents of guild merchants in Bessarabia: legal framework and entrepreneurship sphere (1812-1853)
Tyragetia, 2018 Historical science today increasingly emphasize the role of the individual in the sphere of economic relations, especially the work of large industrialists and traders, their role in establishing links with various agents of foreign capital and in ...
Andrei Emilciuc
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Project of the underwater system for chemical threat detection [PDF]
, 2015 In this article we describe a novel method for the detection of explosives and other hazardous substances in the marine environment using neutron activation.
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Class, caste and conspicuous consumption in India
Economica, EarlyView.Abstract Using nationally representative household‐level panel data from India, we study status‐signalling through conspicuous consumption across castes, religions and income classes. Conditional on permanent income, scheduled caste (SC) and scheduled tribe (ST) Hindu households spend more, while religious minorities spend less on visible consumption ...
Aruni Mitra, Ronit Mukherji
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Incorporated citizens: multinational high-tech companies and the BoP [PDF]
, 2012 In this article, I examine HP’s e-Inclusion program and its implementation in India to show how the high-tech industry’s efforts to alleviate poverty profitably are guided by C. K. Prahalad’s ideas about the Bottom of the Pyramid (BoP), and are framed as
Schwittay, Anke
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The reputation of the corporate social responsibility industry in Australia [PDF]
, 2009 Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is increasingly seen as an imperative for sustainable business and there is a growing literature on the effect of CSR on corporate reputation. Despite this, a pall of ambiguity and uncertainty remains around what CSR
Bartlett, Jennifer +2 more
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Family Firms and Audit Effort: An Empirical Examination of Audit Hours per Auditor Rank
International Journal of Auditing, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines how audit effort varies across auditor ranks in response to family firm ownership. Prior research suggests that family firms typically face lower information asymmetry between shareholders and managers, leading to reduced audit fees and effort.
Jagadison K. Aier +3 more
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