Descripción del proyecto
Cómo pueden las organizaciones ampliar sus actividades para empoderar a las comunidades empobrecidas
En el ámbito de la investigación sobre gestión, existe una laguna de conocimiento cuando se trata de comprender las organizaciones con objetivos sociales. Este vacío se hace más pronunciado en casos extremos como la pobreza generalizada. En este contexto, el equipo del proyecto IATSO, financiado por el Consejo Europeo de Investigación, se propuso abordar este reto de frente. En IATSO se estudiarán los factores que favorecen el crecimiento y el éxito de las organizaciones sociales en contextos de extrema pobreza y se examinarán los factores que influyen en sus resultados sociales. Al centrarse en el sector educativo del sur de Asia, tratará de contribuir de forma práctica a la consecución mundial de los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible, ofreciendo esperanza y perspectivas para empoderar a quienes están atrapados en la pobreza.
Objetivo
There is arguably a lack of research on organizations with social goals in management. For an
extreme case, i.e. of poverty, Prahalad (2006) described compelling examples of innovative
organizations in South Asia, which he suggested served the poor. However, very little is known
about: 1) What factors ‘cause’ social organizations, for instance, in settings of extreme poverty, to
grow and scale up ‘successfully,’ and how and why?, and 2) What organizational factors influence
‘social performance’ for target groups, and how and why, and under which conditions (where and
when), and for whom? Building on insights from our earlier theoretical and empirical work on
networks, leadership, and learning, as well as our extensive pilot studies in India, we will explore
how and why social organizations grow and scale up, in relation to social outcomes for relevant
target groups, using mixed methods (a qualitative phase followed by a quantitative phase, to first
build and then test theory). We propose to study organizations in an extreme setting, where arguably,
social problems are worst: of poverty in South Asia, and picked the education sector given its
potential importance for enabling people to move out of poverty. We believe that a better
understanding of how and why organizations scale up successfully to enable target groups in poverty
to be more proactive is also relevant from a practical perspective. It is for instance at the heart of the
new Sustainable Development Goals, and it is our hope to make a contribution into this direction.
Ámbito científico
Programa(s)
Régimen de financiación
ERC-ADG - Advanced GrantInstitución de acogida
WC2A 2AE London
Reino Unido