Socially Responsive Organizations & the Challenge of Poverty - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1783530596 ISBN 13 : 9781783530595

Editeur : Routledge, 2014

Synopsis

This book provides a combination of case studies and current action research describing how businesses and civil society organizations are working to alleviate poverty in local and global communities. It intends to provide conceptual and research rationales for why management education and management institutions must address the issue of poverty. The book responds to one of the major findings from the research of the PRME Working Group on Poverty that the topic of poverty still lacks a strong business case for management educators and program/institutional administrators. The distinctive features of this book are that it: (1) includes examples of small and medium-sized (SME) businesses; (2) deals with the issue of poverty as a human rights violation; (3) explores the issue of absolute versus relative poverty; (4) deals with leadership challenges in organizations committed to poverty alleviation; and (5) discusses the issues in terms of management education's responsibility for setting new management, research institutional and intellectual agendas. The first of two books to be produced by the PRME Working Group on Poverty, Socially Responsive Organizations and The Challenge of Poverty aims to provide both researchers and practitioners with the most wide-ranging coverage yet published on how business can be a positive force in alleviating poverty and how management education needs to adapt to this increasingly crucial prerogative.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Milenko Gudic has been Director of CEEMANs IMTA (International Management Teachers Academy) since its establishment in 2000. He has worked as a consultant, researcher and lecturer at the Economics Institute, Belgrade, Serbia; visiting lecturer at Faculty of Economics, University of Montenegro; and a frequent guest speaker in over 30 countries. He has been engaged as a consultant to OECD, UNDP, UNIDO, etc., on subjects including entrepreneurship, regional, rural and public management development projects. Milenko is involved in CEEMAN's international research projects and educational leadership capacity building. He was Program Chair of EURAM 2008. Since 2008 he has been co-coordinating the UN Global Compact PRME Working Group on Fighting Poverty through Management Education.

Al Rosenbloom is a Professor of Marketing and International Business at Dominican University, River Forest, Illinois. Al has 20 years of teaching experience in international marketing and international business. Al's research interests include marketing in subsistence market environments, how business combines poverty alleviation efforts with sound corporate practice, and the challenge of integrating poverty issues into the management curriculum. In his teaching, he draws on his experiences both as the owner of his own marketing consulting practice and as a Fulbright Scholar, who has taught in Nepal and Bulgaria. Al has his PhD from Loyola University, Chicago.

Carole Parkes is Director of Social Responsibility & Sustainability at Aston University Business School. Her business and academic background is in human resource management, ethics and responsibility. Carole has been key driver for Aston's early and active involvement with the United Nations Principles for Responsible Man-agement Education (PRME) and Aston is now a PRME Champion School. Carole is also Vice Chair of the UK & Ireland PRME Chapter. Locally, Carole works with business and community groups. Her research interests and publications relate to ethics, social responsibility and sustainability and in particular human rights, poverty and the role of business.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1783530596
• ISBN 13: 9781783530595
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 296
• Éditeur: Gudić Milenko, Rosenbloom Al, Parkes Carole
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible