The Village Network(TM): Partnership and collaboration to alleviate poverty in subsistence marketplaces

Krista Crawford-Mathis, Stephen Darr and Amy Farmer

Journal of Business Research, 2010, vol. 63, issue 6, 639-642

Abstract: The Village Network is a unique model of poverty alleviation involving the collaboration of a host subsistence market community and a nonprofit organization, typically a university, with a multidisciplinary academic module. All parties in this partnership stand to gain from collaboration. The subsistence market benefits from the skill set and labor provided by the university. The university benefits by placing their students in a position to apply theory guided by the social and economic development experience and insights of the indigenous village leadership. The coordinating organization improves relationships and fosters growth in developing communities. The discussion then focuses on insights about subsistence marketplaces that emerge from this initiative.

Keywords: Subsistence; marketplaces; Service; learning; Experiential; education; Multidisciplinary; Interdisciplinary; International; development; Poverty; alleviation; Collaboration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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