Current literature on the developmentally disabled indicates they represent a large untapped labor pool that is significantly inhibited in its inclusion in the community. To address this unnecessary isolation, a voluntary agency in Georgia, wanted to innovate its service offering by providing...

This in-depth exploratory case study examines the real estate decision-making processes in two small, charitable organizations through the lens of Actor Network Theory (ANT). The analysis looked at the relative roles played by various internal and external actors (including influential non-human...

Executive scholarship is a novel and promising avenue for addressing the gap between academic research and practice. To advance the objective of publishing the findings of executive scholarship, we propose the concept of pragmatic rigor. Pragmatic rigor consists of principles and criteria for...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to understand how microfinance initiatives (MFIs) are organized and orchestrated to serve internal and external stakeholders. Design/methodology/approach: A qualitative case study of three international nongovernmental organizations (NGOs)–CARE, Oxfam and...

Purpose: While recent research has established that businesses can benefit from engaging with people at the bottom of the pyramid (BOP), the authors know little about the practices that managers can use to effectively strategize this ethically sound and financially attractive proposition and...