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Publication date: 21 June 2013

Stephen Graham Saunders and Ralph Borland

The purpose of this paper is to investigate, through a comparative historical analysis, the impact of a shift to a marketing‐driven (business‐oriented) philanthropic funding…

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to investigate, through a comparative historical analysis, the impact of a shift to a marketing‐driven (business‐oriented) philanthropic funding structure on NGOs, international businesses that fund charities, and the recipients of the funding for a water pump system in southern Africa.

Design/methodology/approach

The study deconstructs and dissects the introduction and acceptance of the PlayPumps water pump system by generating four historical funding‐structure models that typified the philanthropic funding at the time. Each time period is critically examined to investigate how changes toward marketing‐driven philanthropy affected the viability of the project.

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The key finding is that by shifting to a marketing‐driven (business‐oriented) philanthropic funding structure, NGOs risk fundamentally disconnecting the funders and the recipients of the funding. Serious concerns arise regarding the role of businesses in driving the “overcommercialisation” of marketing‐driven philanthropy.

Research limitations/implications

The funding‐structure models highlight some of the hidden costs of marketing‐driven philanthropic funding, but do not show what funding structure would be most efficient in better connecting international businesses and consumers with the charities they are supporting.

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This analysis examines the underexplored intersection of business, marketing, consumerism and philanthropy.

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European Business Review, vol. 25 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0955-534X

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Publication date: 21 June 2013

Goran Svensson

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European Business Review, vol. 25 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0955-534X

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Publication date: 18 September 2023

John Quin

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ISBN: 978-1-83753-756-3

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Publication date: 1 July 1988

On June 2, IBM introduced a new top‐of‐the‐line computer system, enhancements to an older machine, and price cuts on several of its more expensive models.

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On June 2, IBM introduced a new top‐of‐the‐line computer system, enhancements to an older machine, and price cuts on several of its more expensive models.

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Library Workstation and PC Report, vol. 5 no. 7
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0894-9158

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Publication date: 1 August 1988

Library Workstation and PC Report, founded in 1984 as M300 and PC Report, was the brainchild of Allan Pratt, then at the University of Arizona. Pratt, the founding editor of Small

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Library Workstation and PC Report, founded in 1984 as M300 and PC Report, was the brainchild of Allan Pratt, then at the University of Arizona. Pratt, the founding editor of Small Computers in Libraries, had a hunch that OCLC's introduction of the M300 workstation was going to call for much hand‐holding and specialist advice and information for librarians. He was right. M300 and PC Report had a subscribership well before the first issue was mailed to readers. And it remains a growing publication to this day.

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Library Workstation and PC Report, vol. 5 no. 8
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0894-9158

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Publication date: 1 February 1982

Ronald Burt De Waal

This is a comprehensive list of books, some pamphlets, and a few sound recordings about or by Ronald (and Nancy) Reagan. Collections of photographs and cartoons as well as…

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This is a comprehensive list of books, some pamphlets, and a few sound recordings about or by Ronald (and Nancy) Reagan. Collections of photographs and cartoons as well as biographies, political commentary, speeches, quotations and even recipes are represented. Omitted are books in which there is only brief mention of him. The bibliography was compiled in connection with a major exhibit on Ronald Reagan at the Colorado State University Library. It is the author's intention to continue to collect Reagan materials.

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Reference Services Review, vol. 10 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0090-7324

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Publication date: 18 September 2023

John Quin

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Publication date: 16 July 2024

Oswald A. J. Mascarenhas, Munish Thakur and Payal Kumar

Any credible agenda that seeks to eradicate global poverty must seek to correct the structural injustices and inequities that cause and perpetuate endemic poverty. Such an agenda…

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Any credible agenda that seeks to eradicate global poverty must seek to correct the structural injustices and inequities that cause and perpetuate endemic poverty. Such an agenda must aim not merely to aid the poor with grants, welfare, and subsidies (that indirectly perpetuate poverty) but seek to enhance self-sufficiency and productive skills of the poor by ensuring them comparable access to opportunities of the market economies to participate, on more equitable terms, in the dynamic process of overall economic growth. In this context, we apply critical thinking to identify and recognize the structured injustices of the market system, which not only cause poverty but also compromise human dignity via social inequalities and inequities arguably caused by the free market and corporate capital systems of the world. Global poverty that affects more than a quarter of the human population is a pernicious self-serving system connected to the injustices of the business and political systems of the world. The persistent nature of poverty is in direct proportion to our inability to eradicate it as a whole in the cosmic system. Eradication of global desperate poverty and its unjust structural causes can be achieved, we submit, by tracing the roots of global poverty to corporate and free enterprise capital systems and their unexamined structures of social injustice and social inequalities.

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A Primer on Critical Thinking and Business Ethics
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ISBN: 978-1-83753-346-6

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Publication date: 8 February 2011

Stan Paliwoda, Keith Crosier and Maciej Rydel

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Marketing Intelligence & Planning, vol. 29 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0263-4503

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Publication date: 1 August 1995

Thornton A. May

Argues that the personal computer is dead as a workplacephenomenon. Suggests that the financial pay‐off associated with usingpersonal computers to increase knowledge and worker…

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Argues that the personal computer is dead as a workplace phenomenon. Suggests that the financial pay‐off associated with using personal computers to increase knowledge and worker productivity is no longer viable; and that leading‐edge organizations are in transition between the close of the PC era and the accession of the new age of value‐on‐demand interpersonal computing. Highlights failings of the personal computer paradigm including points such as: focus on the individual and the desktop is misplaced; and the PC paradigm is flawed because the world which spawned such thinking no longer exists. Concludes by providing an action plan for conquering the interpersonal computer interregnum.

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Information Management & Computer Security, vol. 3 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0968-5227

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