Economic development and social entrepreneurship often conceive of poverty as a resource allocation problem in which a lack of capital prevents the poor from increasing their income through entrepreneurship. This allocative view, however, represents only one possible approach to conceptualizing...

Entrepreneurship as a means for alleviating poverty has garnered significant attention among businesses, policy makers, and scholars in recent years. Yet, little attention has been given to the approach by which the poor actually seek out and interact with customers to offer goods and services...

Organizational sponsorship refers to attempts to mediate the relationship between new organizations and their environments by creating a resource-munificent context intended to increase survival rates among those new organizations. This includes efforts such as business incubation, venture...