This is the guest editors' introduction to a special issue of the Journal of Management Education, in which questions concerning management education in the context of poverty are identified and discussed and approaches to this form of education are proposed. The introduction outlines a number...

In this paper I employ three concepts of democracy, quot;electoral,quot; quot;civilquot; and quot;economic,quot; to look at recent events in Latin America. Specifically, I suggest that at least in certain circumstances the roots of significant social change may lie not primarily in electoral but...

With the advent of industrialization, indigenous people around the world have suffered greatly as a result of shifting economic forces, advancing technologies, encroaching population centres, social acculturation, and colonial expansion (Cardoso, 2001). Once self-reliant and socially cohesive,...

Indigenous populations throughout the world suffer from chronic poverty, lower education levels, and poor health. The 'second wave' of indigenous development, after direct economic assistance from outside, lies in indigenous efforts to rebuild their 'nations' and improve their lot through...

Many rural communities in the United States are economically depressed. However, while poor rural communities are geographically isolated and small, they are likely to be rich in social capital. We first argue that the nature of the social capital in such communities can either facilitate or...

The purpose of this paper is to offer an overview of the current study of indigenous entrepreneurship. First, while there is broad agreement on the application of the term quot;indigenous,quot; there are differences of emphasis and outright controversies about empirical description of indigenous...