Organizational engagement with poverty: a review and reorientation

Soundararajan, V., Sahasranamam, S. , Rogerson, M., Bapuji, H., Spence, L. J. and Shaw, J. D. (2024) Organizational engagement with poverty: a review and reorientation. Journal of Management, (doi: 10.1177/01492063241234663) (Early Online Publication)

Abstract

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.

• Item Type: Articles
• Keywords: Poverty, poor, impoverished, literature review, grand challenges, social issues, sustainable development goals.
• Status: Early Online Publication
• Refereed: Yes
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Sahasranamam, Prof Sreevas
• Authors: Soundararajan, V., Sahasranamam, S., Rogerson, M., Bapuji, H., Spence, L. J., and Shaw, J. D.
• College/School: College of Social Sciences > Adam Smith Business School > Management
• Journal Name: Journal of Management
• Publisher: SAGE
• ISSN: 0149-2063
• ISSN (Online): 1557-1211
• Published Online: 26 March 2024
• Copyright Holders: Copyright © The Author(s) 2024
• First Published: First published in Journal of Management 2024
• Publisher Policy: Reproduced under a Creative Commons licence