Alleviating Poverty by Empowering Women Through Business Model Innovation: Manufacturing & Service Operations Management Insights and Opportunities

Erica L. Plambeck () and Kamalini Ramdas ()
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Erica L. Plambeck: Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305;
Kamalini Ramdas: Management Science and Operations, London Business School, Regent’s Park, London NW1 4SA, United Kingdom

Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 2020, vol. 22, issue 1, 123–134

Abstract: Manufacturing & Service Operations Management ( M&SOM ) has published papers of importance for poverty alleviation. Yet rich opportunities for impactful research remain as yet untapped. Operations management (OM) insights suggest business model innovations that alleviate poverty by simultaneously empowering women, protecting natural systems or mitigating pollution, increasing incomes, and creating low-cost, high-quality products or services. OM researchers can help empower women and overcome poverty by developing, testing, refining, and disseminating such business model innovations.

Keywords: business model innovation; poverty; women’s empowerment; product-process matrix; ecosystem services; protecting natural systems; creating new products and services; increasing incomes (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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