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Creating mutual value: Lessons learned from ventures serving base of the pyramid producers

Ted London, +2 more
- 01 Jun 2010 - 
- Vol. 63, Iss: 6, pp 582-594
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In this paper, the authors assess how business ventures serving the base of the pyramid (BoP) producers address local constraints and create mutual value, using a case study methodology, sixty-four ventures are analyzed to identify the constraints faced by BoP producers.
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This article is published in Journal of Business Research.The article was published on 2010-06-01. It has received 386 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Value capture.

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Service Research Priorities in a Rapidly Changing Context

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The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty through Profits

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Customer experience challenges: bringing together digital, physical and social realms

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Impact at the ‘Bottom of the Pyramid’: The Role of Social Capital in Capability Development and Community Empowerment

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose a more socially embedded and community-centric bottom-of-the-pyramid approach by leveraging insights from Amartya Sen's work on capability development and the literature on social capital.
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The role of social value creation in business model formulation at the bottom of the pyramid - Implications for MNEs?

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an exploratory study of how social value creation and business models may be interrelated in the context of the bottom of the pyramid (BOP) business formation.
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Handbook of Qualitative Research

TL;DR: The discipline and practice of qualitative research have been extensively studied in the literature as discussed by the authors, including the work of Denzin and Denzin, and their history in sociology and anthropology, as well as the role of women in qualitative research.
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The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else

TL;DR: The Mystery of Capital as discussed by the authors is one of the most influential books in the history of the world, and it has already led the cognoscenti to put him in the pantheon of great progressive intellectuals of our age.

World development report 2008 : agriculture for development

TL;DR: Agriculture is a vital development tool for achieving the Millennium Development Goal that calls for halving by 2015 the share of people suffering from extreme poverty and hunger as mentioned in this paper, which is the overall message of this year's World Development Report (WDR), the 30th in the series.
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The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid

TL;DR: The Bottom of the Pyramid (BOP) market as discussed by the authors is the most exciting, fastest-growing new market in the world and it's where people least expect it: at the bottom of the pyramid.