The World population has doubled in the last fifty years in a context in which capitalism prevails as the most extended economic system and in which income is used as the most recurrent indicator to measure wealth in society. Within this scenario, wealth distribution is spread uneven, as half of the total Worldwide wealth is in hands of less than 1% of Worldwide population and over four billion people live under 2 USD per day. The latest, known as the Base of the Pyramid (BoP), represent a very large and heterogenous market that has been for long underestimated by the traditional business world. However, due to globalization and extreme competition in more developed and mature markets, multinational companies started exploring other alternatives, recognizing in BoP tremendous business opportunities. However, as BoP are quite special markets, companies willing to operate in such contexts successfully must be ready to challenge traditional business principles. In recent years, driven by a raising public awareness about environmental problems and social inequality, a new wave of entrepreneurship known as Social Entrepreneurship has arisen. This relatively new approach to do business is based on what is known as the Triple Bottom Line through which companies aim at creating simultaneously economic profit and positive social and environmental impact. In line with the fact that Social Enterprises related to BoP are growing in numbers year by year, this study aims at reviewing state-of-the-art literature and propose a new framework for Social Enterprises willing to operate in BoP markets, contributing at an academic level by extending the literature on social business and BoP and at a practitioner level by providing a framework and guidelines for social entrepreneurs willing to operate at the mentioned context. In addition, it is presented a first attempt to use the framework proposed with a case study of a Social Enterprise operating in Indonesia.
Negli ultimi cinquant'anni la popolazione mondiale è raddoppiata in un contesto in cui il capitalismo prevale come il sistema economico più esteso e in cui il reddito viene utilizzato come l'indicatore più ricorrente per misurare la ricchezza nella società. In questo scenario la distribuzione della ricchezza è suddivisa in modo disomogeneo, poiché metà della ricchezza mondiale totale è nelle mani di meno dell'1% della popolazione mondiale, mentre oltre quattro miliardi di persone vivono al di sotto di 2 USD al giorno. Quest'ultima fetta di popolazione, nota come Base della Piramide (BoP), rappresenta un mercato molto ampio ed eterogeneo che è stato a lungo sottovalutato dal mondo degli affari tradizionale. Tuttavia, a causa della globalizzazione e della competizione estrema in mercati più sviluppati e maturi, le multinazionali hanno iniziato a esplorare altre alternative, riconoscendo nella BoP enormi opportunità di business. Nonostante ciò, dal momento che le BoP sono mercati piuttosto speciali, le aziende disposte a operare con successo in tali contesti devono essere pronte a sfidare i tradizionali principi aziendali. Negli ultimi anni, spinto da un aumento nella sensibilizzazione pubblica sui problemi ambientali e l'ineguaglianza sociale, è sorto un nuovo impulso imprenditoriale noto come imprenditoria sociale. Questo approccio, relativamente nuovo al business, si basa sulla cosiddetta “Triple Bottom Line” attraverso la quale le aziende mirano a creare, contemporaneamente, sia un profitto economico che un impatto sociale e ambientale positivo. In linea con il fatto che le imprese sociali legate alla BoP stanno crescendo di anno in anno, questo studio mira a rivedere la letteratura più avanzata e a proporre un nuovo quadro per le imprese sociali disposte a operare nei mercati della BoP contribuendo sia livello accademico, estendendo la letteratura sull'impresa sociale e la BoP, sia a livello di praticantato fornendo un quadro e linee guida per gli imprenditori sociali disposti a operare nel contesto menzionato. Infine, viene presentato un primo tentativo d'uso del quadro proposto con un caso studio di un'impresa sociale operante in Indonesia.
Framework for social enterprises operating at the BoP : a case study for a social enterprise in Indonesia
GARCIA GARCIA, CARLOS ALBERTO
2017/2018
Abstract
The World population has doubled in the last fifty years in a context in which capitalism prevails as the most extended economic system and in which income is used as the most recurrent indicator to measure wealth in society. Within this scenario, wealth distribution is spread uneven, as half of the total Worldwide wealth is in hands of less than 1% of Worldwide population and over four billion people live under 2 USD per day. The latest, known as the Base of the Pyramid (BoP), represent a very large and heterogenous market that has been for long underestimated by the traditional business world. However, due to globalization and extreme competition in more developed and mature markets, multinational companies started exploring other alternatives, recognizing in BoP tremendous business opportunities. However, as BoP are quite special markets, companies willing to operate in such contexts successfully must be ready to challenge traditional business principles. In recent years, driven by a raising public awareness about environmental problems and social inequality, a new wave of entrepreneurship known as Social Entrepreneurship has arisen. This relatively new approach to do business is based on what is known as the Triple Bottom Line through which companies aim at creating simultaneously economic profit and positive social and environmental impact. In line with the fact that Social Enterprises related to BoP are growing in numbers year by year, this study aims at reviewing state-of-the-art literature and propose a new framework for Social Enterprises willing to operate in BoP markets, contributing at an academic level by extending the literature on social business and BoP and at a practitioner level by providing a framework and guidelines for social entrepreneurs willing to operate at the mentioned context. In addition, it is presented a first attempt to use the framework proposed with a case study of a Social Enterprise operating in Indonesia.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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