Purpose – This paper suggests that BoP producer businesses provide greater potential positive impact on poverty alleviation than BoP consumer businesses. With this purpose, the authors explore the positive short‐term and long‐term economic effects of BoP producer businesses on the poor and...

Adam Smith war nicht nur der wichtigste Vordenker von Kapitalismus und Marktwirtschaft, sondern auch ihr erster grundlegender Kritiker. Das zeigt Gerhard Streminger in seiner fulminanten, aus den Quellen gearbeiteten Biographie des "ökonomischen Luther", wie Friedrich Engels Smith einmal...

Crowd analysis is of increasing interest. Sociologists, for example, are interested in studying social influence within and between small groups of individuals traveling in a crowd. However, current empirical studies conducted by human observers are very time-consuming. We propose an automatic,...