TY - JOUR
T1 - Organizational Engagement With Poverty
T2 - A Review and Reorientation
AU - Soundararajan, Vivek
AU - Sahasranamam, Sreevas
AU - Rogerson, Mike
AU - Bapuji, Hari
AU - Spence, Laura J.
AU - Shaw, Jason
PY - 2024/3/26
Y1 - 2024/3/26
N2 - Recognizing the potential contributions businesses can make to address the grand challenge of global poverty, management scholars have increasingly turned research attention to poverty. We conducted an integrative review of poverty studies in the organizational literature spanning from 1985 to 2022. Based on the review, we clarify poverty as a significant lack of market-oriented resources, opportunities, and capabilities. Further, we develop a framework that captures the ways in which organizational practices offer the poor, or deprive them of, resources, opportunities, and capabilities, and thereby contribute to poverty alleviation or aggravation respectively. Moreover, our framework identifies the necessary support conditions for an organization to effectively combat poverty. We conclude by proposing a research agenda aimed at advancing management scholarship on poverty.
AB - Recognizing the potential contributions businesses can make to address the grand challenge of global poverty, management scholars have increasingly turned research attention to poverty. We conducted an integrative review of poverty studies in the organizational literature spanning from 1985 to 2022. Based on the review, we clarify poverty as a significant lack of market-oriented resources, opportunities, and capabilities. Further, we develop a framework that captures the ways in which organizational practices offer the poor, or deprive them of, resources, opportunities, and capabilities, and thereby contribute to poverty alleviation or aggravation respectively. Moreover, our framework identifies the necessary support conditions for an organization to effectively combat poverty. We conclude by proposing a research agenda aimed at advancing management scholarship on poverty.
U2 - 10.1177/01492063241234663
DO - 10.1177/01492063241234663
M3 - Article
SN - 0149-2063
JO - Journal of Management
JF - Journal of Management
ER -