Ruth Pearson
Abstract Though there is now a great deal of attention to the question of women workers and Corporate Social Responsibility (csr), a more far reaching analysis, which is informed by feminist economics approaches, stresses the importance of the gendered nature of the institutional context in which va...
Catherine Dolan
In recent years, ‘bottom of the pyramid’ (BoP) initiatives – from Grameen Phone Ladies and Solar Sister, to Women First and Living Goods – have captured increasing attention, not only in corporate boardrooms where the desire for untapped revenue streams looms large, but also in the arenas of develop...
Catherine Dolan, Mary Johnstone–Louis, Linda M. Scott
In recent years bottom-of-the-pyramid (BoP) models have emerged as a popular strategy for offering poor women the opportunity to earn an income by distributing goods and services door-to-door. In this article, we explore one recent example of BoP entrepreneurship: the CARE Bangladesh Rural Sales Pro...
Linda Westman, James Patterson, Rachel Macrorie, Christopher Orr et al.
The crises that cities face-such as climate change, pandemics, economic downturn, and racism-are tightly interlinked and cannot be addressed in isolation. This paper addresses compound urban crises as a unique type of problem, in which discrete solutions that tackle each crisis independently are ins...
Catherine Dolan
In recent years, ‘bottom of the pyramid’ (BoP) initiatives – from Grameen Phone Ladies and Solar Sister, to Women First and Living Goods – have captured increasing attention, not only in corporate boardrooms where the desire for untapped revenue streams looms large, but also in the arenas of develop...
Alex Shaw, Catherine Troman, Joyce Akello, Kathleen O’Reilly et al.
Catherine Dolan, Linda M. Scott
Catherine Dolan
In the wake of C. K. Prahalad’s 2004 publication, The fortune at the bottom of the pyramid, “bottom of the pyramid” (BOP) schemes have become increasingly prominent on the development landscape. Lauded as the century’s most influential model of socially responsible business (Anderson and Billou 2007...