Risks and opportunities of innovations in transgenic crops are subject of heated debates. While the scientific evaluation is largely positive, public perception remains skeptical. Besides technological issues, non-technological risks such as potential destabilization of traditional agro-systems,...

In recent years, the segment of the world's poor has moved into the focus of business and academia. This trend was accelerated by stagnation tendencies in the industrialized world together with comparatively high growth rates in developing countries. Under the headline Base of the Pyramid,...

In recent years, a considerable amount of research on adapted business for developing countries focused on the impact such endeavours have on the respective companies as well as on the affected people. However, the main emphasis within management sciences was on the economic outcomes or (even...