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Building BoP Business Models for Sustainable Poverty Alleviation: System Tips and System Traps

In: Business Models for Sustainability Transitions

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  • Jodi C. York

    (University of Melbourne)

  • Krzysztof Dembek

    (Swinburne University)

Abstract

Sustainable development requires both long-term and large-scale changes to production and consumption patterns, and the eradication of extreme poverty. In this study we argue that pursuing these goals independently can result in business models that tie poverty alleviation to increased environmental degradation and thus work at cross purposes to sustainability transition. We explore how three types of business models for addressing poverty at the bottom of the pyramid (BOP)—delivering, sourcing, and reorganising models—can either impede or support sustainability transition in the global south by enacting different business model roles. We use examples from 17 business models from Indonesia and the Philippines to explore the sustainability misalignment risks each model type is prone to and distil key business model design features and enablers that support their alignment with sustainability transition by enabling them to avoid common system traps.

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  • Jodi C. York & Krzysztof Dembek, 2021. "Building BoP Business Models for Sustainable Poverty Alleviation: System Tips and System Traps," Springer Books, in: Annabeth Aagaard & Florian Lüdeke-Freund & Peter Wells (ed.), Business Models for Sustainability Transitions, edition 1, pages 123-159, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-030-77580-3_5
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-77580-3_5
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