Project description DEENESFRITPL How organisations can scale up to empower impoverished communities In the realm of management research, there is a knowledge gap when it comes to understanding organisations with social goals. This void becomes most pronounced in extreme cases like widespread poverty. In this context, the IATSO project, funded by the European Research Council, poised to tackle this challenge head-on. IATSO will explore what drives the growth and successful scaling of social organisations in settings of dire poverty and examine the factors influencing their social performance. Focused on the education sector in South Asia, it will aim to make a practical contribution to the global pursuit of Sustainable Development Goals, offering hope and insights for empowering those trapped in poverty. Show the project objective Hide the project objective Objective There is arguably a lack of research on organizations with social goals in management. For anextreme case, i.e. of poverty, Prahalad (2006) described compelling examples of innovativeorganizations in South Asia, which he suggested served the poor. However, very little is knownabout: 1) What factors ‘cause’ social organizations, for instance, in settings of extreme poverty, togrow 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 andwhen), and for whom? Building on insights from our earlier theoretical and empirical work onnetworks, leadership, and learning, as well as our extensive pilot studies in India, we will explorehow and why social organizations grow and scale up, in relation to social outcomes for relevanttarget groups, using mixed methods (a qualitative phase followed by a quantitative phase, to firstbuild 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 itspotential importance for enabling people to move out of poverty. We believe that a betterunderstanding of how and why organizations scale up successfully to enable target groups in povertyto be more proactive is also relevant from a practical perspective. It is for instance at the heart of thenew Sustainable Development Goals, and it is our hope to make a contribution into this direction. Fields of science social scienceseducational sciencesdidacticssocial scienceseconomics and businesseconomicssocial sciencessociologysocial issuessocial scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and management Programme(s) H2020-EU.1.1. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC) Main Programme Topic(s) ERC-ADG-2015 - ERC Advanced Grant Call for proposal ERC-2015-AdG See other projects for this call Funding Scheme ERC-ADG - Advanced Grant Host institution LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE Net EU contribution € 1 013 571,57 Address Houghton Street 1 WC2A 2AE London United Kingdom See on map Region London Inner London — West Westminster Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Total cost € 1 013 571,57 Beneficiaries (4) Sort alphabetically Sort by Net EU contribution Expand all Collapse all LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE United Kingdom Net EU contribution € 1 013 571,57 Address Houghton Street 1 WC2A 2AE London See on map Region London Inner London — West Westminster Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Total cost € 1 013 571,57 MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY HIGHER EDUCATION CORPORATION United Kingdom Net EU contribution € 43 258,19 Address THE BURROUGHS, HENDON . NW4 4BT London See on map Region London Outer London — West and North West Barnet Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Total cost € 43 258,19 UNIVERSITY OF DURHAM United Kingdom Net EU contribution € 110 484,00 Address STOCKTON ROAD THE PALATINE CENTRE DH1 3LE Durham See on map Region North East (England) Tees Valley and Durham Durham CC Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Total cost € 110 484,00 UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS United Kingdom Net EU contribution € 50 000,00 Address WOODHOUSE LANE LS2 9JT Leeds See on map Region Yorkshire and the Humber West Yorkshire Leeds Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Total cost € 50 000,00
