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Sustainability of a Social Business: A Case Study on Grameen Danone Foods Limited

Asian Business Review

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Title Sustainability of a Social Business: A Case Study on Grameen Danone Foods Limited
 
Creator Yasmin, Nur Nahar; Lecturer, Department of Management, University of Dhaka, Dhaka-1000, BANGLADESH
 
Subject Sustainable development, social business, Grameen Danone Foods Limited, Shakti Doi, poverty, malnutrition
 
Description Achieving sustainability in the context of economic, social and environmental aspects has been one of the main focuses of modern times. The aim is to create the world that will facilitate the upcoming generations to lead a safe and sound life. Social business is a relatively new concept that assists in the creation of such a sustainable world by promoting and following the notion of “no-loss, no-dividend” business instead of conventional profit-maximizing business. The purpose of this paper is to show whether a social business can become a sustainable business and achieve the sustainable development goals set by United Nations. To scrutinize this theory of social business for sustainable development the author has selected Grameen-Danone Foods Limited (GDFL) as a case study. The endeavor of this paper is to elaborate the relationship between social business and sustainable development, describe GDFL as a social business and analyze the success (or failure) of GDFL as a sustainable social business. Finally, it tries to showcase a comparison of few of the sustainable development goals and the outcomes of the analysis of the business and social goals of GDFL. JEL Classifications: M 10 Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11903/abr.v6n3.6
 
Publisher Asian Business Consortium
 
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Date 2016-12-18
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://journals.abc.us.org/index.php/abr/article/view/887
 
Source Asian Business Review; Vol 6, No 3 (2016): 15th Issue; 167-174
2305-8730
2304-2613
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://journals.abc.us.org/index.php/abr/article/view/887/720
 
Rights Copyright (c) 2016 Nur Nahar Yasmin
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