Doing good and doing business at the bottom of the pyramid

Business Horizons

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 591-599

  Agnihotri, Arpita ^a  

^a IFHE UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Affordability trap; Business ethics; India; Microfinance; Poverty premium

Indexed keywords

EID: 84882689458     PISSN: 00076813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bushor.2013.05.009     Document Type: Article

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