Christian Seelos

TL;DR: The term social entrepreneurship is used to refer to the rapidly growing number of organizations that have created models for efficiently catering to basic human needs that existing markets and institutions have failed to satisfy as discussed by the authors.

Abstract: Executive Overview The bottom of the pyramid (BOP) in the global distribution of income has been promoted as a significant opportunity for companies to grow profitably. Under the BOP approach, poor people are identified as potential customers who can be served if companies learn to fundamentally rethink their existing strategies and business models. This involves acquiring and building new resources and capabilities and forging a multitude of local partnerships. However, current BOP literature remains relatively silent about how to actually implement such a step into the unknown. We use two BOP cases to illustrate a strategic framework that reduces managerial complexity. In our view, existing capabilities and existing local BOP models can be leveraged to build new markets that include the poor and generate sufficient financial returns for companies to justify investments.

TL;DR: Genistein's ability to act as an LDL antioxidant and a vascular cell protective agent against oxidized LDL will support the suggested and documented beneficial action of a soy diet in preventing chronic vascular diseases and early atherogenic events.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore how variation of local institutional mechanisms shapes the local face of poverty in different communities and how this relates to variations in the emergence and strategic orientations of social enterprise organizations.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine how social inequality manifests in small-scale societies, and present research on organizational efforts to tackle multidimensional, complex, and interlinked societal challenges, such as poverty and inequality.