Design and development of products and services at the Base of the Pyramid: A review of issues and solutions

International Journal of Sustainable Society

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 207-231

  Jagtap, Santosh ^a   Larsson, Andreas ^a   Kandachar, Prabhu ^b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Base of the Pyramid; BoP; Design and development; Issues; Poverty; Products and services; Solutions; Sustainable development

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879533615     PISSN: 17562538     EISSN: 17562546     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJSSOC.2013.054712     Document Type: Article

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