Business Integrity in Practice

Chapter 5

Faith, Hope, and Care

Integrity and Poverty Alleviation Through Enterprise

Kathryn Pavlovich

Introduction

Integrity is the developing currency of the twenty-first century. Integrity, organizational sustainability, and social responsibility are words now consistently seen in contemporary scholarship. Indeed, the concept of caring for each other becomes dominant in this relational, interdependent world. This is particularly evident in the growing interest in enterprise development which is now seen as the most successful mechanism for alleviating poverty in emerging economies.¹ The term creating social wealth has been introduced to distinguish this phenomenon from solely commercial enterprise. Creating social wealth embraces longer ...