Newsflash – Two New Initiatives on Enterprise Solutions to Poverty

Transforming Business is pleased to announce two exciting new initiatives that are closely tied to its focus on enterprise solutions to poverty:

New research initiative

We will soon be launching a cross-cultural research inititative on the impact of entrepreneurship on poverty alleviation. We are in the final stages of bringing together a strong international group of dedicated researchers and business practicioners who are in support of the vision of Transforming Business. They will study and report on how genuine, commercially viable, businesses are contributing to human development in their regions of the world and we'll be making some of their initial findings available via the TB website later this year.

New journal

We're also planning to launch a peer-reviewed international journal. Cruicial to the high impact we plan for it to have, is not only its publisher but the calibre of its associates. We are putting together, therefore, a top-tier, internationally acclaimed, group of researchers, writers, editors, advisors and practitioners who, having caught the vision of Transforming Business, want to make this journal a leader in what is a rapidly emerging field. The working title of the journal reflects its alignment with TB's focus and that it forms an integral part of its dissemination strategy: Transforming Business: International Journal of Enterprise Solutions to Poverty.

Naturally, we hope that the results of the new research initiative will be among the things that feature in the journal. We plan, in any event, for the journal to carry contributions from entrepreneurs, as business leaders make up a key part of our target audience.

These two ventures represent one more step in the efforts Transforming Business has been making to inquire into, inform of, innovate in and inspire for the fight against poverty through business, paying particular attention the role of social capital (including its institutional, relational, moral and spiritual dimensions).

In fulfilling this mission, both the research initiative and the journal will become the backbone of a pioneering new programme we are planning to set up at the Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning at the Judge Business School at Cambridge University. More on that initiative will follow in due course. In the meantime, keep abreast with developments by clicking on the 'Stay Informed' button on the homepage of Transforming Business.