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Inclusive Businesses in Developing Economies

Converging People, Profit, and Corporate Citizenship

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  • Presents new insights on developing inclusive business models using design-to-society and design-to-value strategies
  • Discusses the role of the social value of business in improving organizational performance through co-creating
  • Argues that stakeholder-led marketing strategies in chaotic markets enhances the effects of social innovation

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Table of contents (21 chapters)

  1. Financial Perspectives

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This book analyzes the emerging concepts and theories of inclusiveness in business by explaining corporate social responsibility, social learning, and value co-creation, as critical elements to the success of firms. The authors explore the causes and effects and challenges associated with the management of inclusive businesses. 

Divided in to six sections, this edited work includes twenty one chapters that examine the inclusive business philosophy, the social dynamics of managing inclusive business, the role of trade, and inclusive practices at work before concluding with a discussion of how to drive hybrid growth in these types of organizations. 

Focusing on developing economies, this book portrays the varied corporate experiences in inclusive business designs and customer value propositions across the industries. It surveys the problems, possible solutions, and policy frameworks for integrating business as a resource to alleviate poverty and social and economic inequality.


Editors and Affiliations

  • Tecnologico de Monterrey, EGADE Business School, Mexico, Mexico

    Rajagopal

  • International Management Institute, Bhubaneswar, India

    Ramesh Behl

About the editors

Rajagopal is Professor of Marketing at EGADE Business School of Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico City Campus and Life Fellow of the Royal Society for Encouragement of Arts, Commerce, and Manufacture, London, United Kingdom. Dr. Rajagopal is serving as Visiting Professor at Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, since 2013 and is also adjunct professor at the UFV India Global Education of the University of the Fraser Valley, Canada. He has to his credit 65 books on business management and over 400 research papers.


Ramesh Behl is Director and Professor of Information Systems at International Management Institute, India. He has authored more than twenty books, seventeen case studies, and more than 45 research papers of national and international repute.

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