Warner Woodworth
Biographic Data
| ID | 3533766 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Warner Woodworth |
| GIVEN NAMES | Warner |
| FAMILY NAME | Woodworth |
| SIGNATURE | WOODWORTH W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brigham Young University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Alleviating poverty through microfinance: Village banking outcomes in Central America
Our research reports on Brigham Young University (BYU) field studies carried out in Central America to assess the impacts of village banking on indigenous families. We first introduce the growing movement of microfinance institutions (MFIs), organizations that provide small loans as start-up capital for the unemployed poor in Central America. We briefly describe the native nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) that allocate their financial resourc…
Microcredit as a Grass‐Roots Policy for International Development
The failure of top‐down development policies in the Third World has given rise to a variety of grass‐roots, or bottom‐up, development strategies to combat the severe poverty that continues to plague developing countries. Among these grass‐roots approaches, microcredit has grown rapidly in popularity, scope, and impact over the last two decades. Microcredit provides financial capital for poor entrepreneurs who toil in the informal, poverty sectors…
Microcredit and Third World Development Policy
Industrial Democracy: Strategies for Community Revitalization
PART ONE: THE PROBLEM OF ECONOMIC DISLOCATION: AN OVERVIEW New Approaches to Industrial Development and Community Renewal - William Foote Whyte Problems of Industrial Plant Shutdowns - David Moberg Options for Reindustrialization - Staughton Lynd Brownfield Versus Greenfield Approaches Problems of Economic Deterioration - Bennett Harrison and Barry Bluestone Absentee Ownership, Industrial Decline, and Organizational Renewal - Christopher Meek and…
Tearing Down the Pyramids
Organization Development: A Closer Scrutiny
The central thrust of this paper argues the need to expand the critical literature on organization development (OD) in terms of theoretical assumptions and change strategies. Conceptual roots of OD theory are examined for their ideological bias, value problems confronting the OD practitioner are highlighted and resulting implications for the field are discussed
Forms of Employee Ownership and Workers' Control
Worker-owned enterprises may contribute to the development of a new system of productive relations in the United States. Various approaches to employee ownership are classified into two principal schemes. Type I methods include the Scanlon plan, Drucker's logic of "pension fund socialism," and Kelso's Employee Stock Ownership Plan. 7hese designs coalesce in efforts to preserve capitalism by broadening its rewards, retaining the traditional profit…
Microcredit as a Grass‐Roots Policy for International Development
The failure of top‐down development policies in the Third World has given rise to a variety of grass‐roots, or bottom‐up, development strategies to combat the severe poverty that continues to plague developing countries. Among these grass‐roots approaches, microcredit has grown rapidly in popularity, scope, and impact over the last two decades. Microcredit provides financial capital for poor entrepreneurs who toil in the informal, poverty sectors…
Alleviating poverty through microfinance: Village banking outcomes in Central America
Our research reports on Brigham Young University (BYU) field studies carried out in Central America to assess the impacts of village banking on indigenous families. We first introduce the growing movement of microfinance institutions (MFIs), organizations that provide small loans as start-up capital for the unemployed poor in Central America. We briefly describe the native nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) that allocate their financial resourc…
Organization Development: A Closer Scrutiny
The central thrust of this paper argues the need to expand the critical literature on organization development (OD) in terms of theoretical assumptions and change strategies. Conceptual roots of OD theory are examined for their ideological bias, value problems confronting the OD practitioner are highlighted and resulting implications for the field are discussed
Forms of Employee Ownership and Workers' Control
Worker-owned enterprises may contribute to the development of a new system of productive relations in the United States. Various approaches to employee ownership are classified into two principal schemes. Type I methods include the Scanlon plan, Drucker's logic of "pension fund socialism," and Kelso's Employee Stock Ownership Plan. 7hese designs coalesce in efforts to preserve capitalism by broadening its rewards, retaining the traditional profit…
Tearing Down the Pyramids
Organization Development: A Closer Scrutiny
The central thrust of this paper argues the need to expand the critical literature on organization development (OD) in terms of theoretical assumptions and change strategies. Conceptual roots of OD theory are examined for their ideological bias, value problems confronting the OD practitioner are highlighted and resulting implications for the field are discussed
Industrial Democracy: Strategies for Community Revitalization
PART ONE: THE PROBLEM OF ECONOMIC DISLOCATION: AN OVERVIEW New Approaches to Industrial Development and Community Renewal - William Foote Whyte Problems of Industrial Plant Shutdowns - David Moberg Options for Reindustrialization - Staughton Lynd Brownfield Versus Greenfield Approaches Problems of Economic Deterioration - Bennett Harrison and Barry Bluestone Absentee Ownership, Industrial Decline, and Organizational Renewal - Christopher Meek and…
Microcredit as a Grass‐Roots Policy for International Development
The failure of top‐down development policies in the Third World has given rise to a variety of grass‐roots, or bottom‐up, development strategies to combat the severe poverty that continues to plague developing countries. Among these grass‐roots approaches, microcredit has grown rapidly in popularity, scope, and impact over the last two decades. Microcredit provides financial capital for poor entrepreneurs who toil in the informal, poverty sectors…
Microcredit and Third World Development Policy
Alleviating poverty through microfinance: Village banking outcomes in Central America
Our research reports on Brigham Young University (BYU) field studies carried out in Central America to assess the impacts of village banking on indigenous families. We first introduce the growing movement of microfinance institutions (MFIs), organizations that provide small loans as start-up capital for the unemployed poor in Central America. We briefly describe the native nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) that allocate their financial resourc…
Political science (7 works) · Economics (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Economic growth (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Microfinance and Financial Inclusion (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Capital (architecture (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Cooperative Studies and Economics (2 works)