The poor as suppliers of intellectual property: A social network approach to sustainable poverty alleviation

Business Ethics Quarterly

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 381-406

  Shivarajan, Sridevi ^a   Srinivasan, Aravind ^b  

^a RAMAPO COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Base of the pyramid; Capabilities; CSR; Intellectual property; Poverty; Social exclusion; Social networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880426789     PISSN: 1052150X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5840/beq201323326     Document Type: Article

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