商品描述
This book showcases the work of Annapurna Pariwar, an NGO comprising six organizations, over the past 30 years and its impact on changing the lives of low-income working women with small businesses in the slums of Mumbai and Pune in the Indian state of Maharashtra. This group of six organizations together forms a social enterprise, established at a time of major changes in the Indian economy in the form of globalization and urbanization. The NGO set out to address issues of livelihood and poverty alleviation in slums. Adopting a path that was sustainable and did not depend upon grants, the journey is a fascinating account of learnings in organizational evolution and its impact on the lives of poor women. The book is divided into two parts. The first part has three chapters charting the journey of Annapurna Pariwar based on interviews with Medha Tai, the founder of Annapurna Pariwar. These chapters discuss milestones, organizational evolution, and challenges, especially demonetization and COVID-19. The lifecycle of the organization and of the women in the case studies are juxtaposed within the framework of financial, physical, sociocultural, and political spaces. The second part of the book contains analyses from well-known authors and academics who contextualize the relevance of Annapurna Pariwar's work and future against microfinance, microinsurance, plus services, social entrepreneurship, digitization, and urban landscapes. The book thus contributes not only to the practice-field; it has several academic contributions as well for researchers studying social phenomena such as social entrepreneurship, microfinance, cooperatives, women empowerment, and women entrepreneurship. While doing so, it addresses SDGs such as SDG3, SDG5, SDG8, and SDG11. The book is for a wide audience, comprising social entrepreneurs in the field of social development, microfinance, and microinsurance. It is of relevance to business schools and educational institutions which offer courses on social entrepreneurship and development studies.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
本書展示了Annapurna Pariwar的工作，這是一個由六個組織組成的非政府組織（NGO），在過去30年中對改變印度馬哈拉施特拉邦孟買和浦那貧民窟中低收入工作女性的小型企業生活產生的影響。這六個組織共同形成了一個社會企業，成立於印度經濟在全球化和城市化重大變革的時期。該非政府組織旨在解決貧民窟中的生計和減貧問題。採取了一條可持續的道路，並不依賴於補助金，這段旅程是組織演變及其對貧困女性生活影響的迷人敘述。
本書分為兩部分。第一部分包含三章，根據Annapurna Pariwar的創始人Medha Tai的訪談，描繪了Annapurna Pariwar的旅程。這些章節討論了里程碑、組織演變和挑戰，特別是去貨幣化和COVID-19。組織的生命周期和案例研究中女性的生命周期在財務、物理、社會文化和政治空間的框架內進行了對比。書的第二部分包含了知名作者和學者的分析，他們將Annapurna Pariwar的工作及其未來與微型金融、微型保險、附加服務、社會企業、數位化和城市景觀的相關性進行了背景化。因此，本書不僅對實踐領域有所貢獻，還對研究社會現象（如社會企業、微型金融、合作社、女性賦權和女性創業）的研究者有多項學術貢獻。在此過程中，它也涉及了可持續發展目標（SDGs），如SDG3、SDG5、SDG8和SDG11。本書適合廣泛的讀者，包括社會發展、微型金融和微型保險領域的社會企業家。對於提供社會企業和發展研究課程的商學院和教育機構也具有相關性。
作者簡介
Joy Deshmukh Ranadive is an economist by training and a social scientist by practice. She comes with over three decades of experience in the area of social development. She is an advisor and consultant to NGOs and corporates on issues of sustainability, CSR, gender, and social programs. Dr. Joy retired as Global Head of CSR, Tata Consultancy Services. She has earlier been Director, Indian School of Microfinance for Women in Ahmedabad and Country Director, International Centre for Research on Women, which is head quartered in Washington. A doctorate in Economics and a gold medalist at the MA level from the University of Mumbai, Dr. Joy has several books and papers to her credit in the areas of gender, development, microfinance, human rights, and CSR. Samapti Guha is Professor, Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, School of Management and Labour Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai, India. She is a Development Economist and earned her PhD in Economics from Jadavpur University in 2004. After completing her PhD, she worked at the Indian Institute of Dalit Studies, New Delhi, and the Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA), Gujarat. In 2006, she was selected as a Sir Ratan Tata Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK, for her post-doctoral study. In 2007, she joined TISS and launched a new MA program in Social Entrepreneurship, successfully running the center for the past three years. She co-established the Social Incubation Centre at the Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, supported by the UGC, in 2011. She has mentored more than 50 social start-ups. Her areas of research include microfinance, women entrepreneurship, micro enterprises, social entrepreneurship, financial inclusion, and development economics.
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
喬伊·德什穆克·拉納迪夫（Joy Deshmukh Ranadive）是一位受過經濟學訓練的經濟學家，並在實踐中擔任社會科學家。她在社會發展領域擁有超過三十年的經驗。她是非政府組織（NGO）和企業在可持續性、企業社會責任（CSR）、性別和社會計畫等問題上的顧問和顧問。喬伊博士曾擔任塔塔顧問服務公司（Tata Consultancy Services）全球企業社會責任負責人，並曾擔任印度微型金融學校（Indian School of Microfinance for Women）主任及位於華盛頓的國際婦女研究中心（International Centre for Research on Women）國家主任。喬伊博士擁有經濟學博士學位，並在孟買大學獲得碩士學位時獲得金牌，她在性別、發展、微型金融、人權和企業社會責任等領域發表了多本書籍和論文。
薩瑪普提·古哈（Samapti Guha）是印度孟買塔塔社會科學研究所（Tata Institute of Social Sciences, TISS）管理與勞動研究學院社會企業中心的教授。她是一位發展經濟學家，於2004年在賈達夫普爾大學（Jadavpur University）獲得經濟學博士學位。完成博士學位後，她在新德里的印度達利特研究所（Indian Institute of Dalit Studies）和古吉拉特邦的安納德鄉村管理學院（Institute of Rural Management Anand, IRMA）工作。2006年，她被選為英國倫敦政治經濟學院（London School of Economics and Political Science）的拉坦·塔塔爵士研究員，進行博士後研究。2007年，她加入TISS並啟動了社會企業家精神的新碩士課程，成功運營該中心已有三年。她於2011年共同建立了由UGC支持的社會孵化中心。她已指導超過50個社會創業公司。她的研究領域包括微型金融、女性創業、微型企業、社會企業、金融包容性和發展經濟學。
