Join the Network - Researchers
The Economic Self-Reliance Center encourages academicians to conduct research that helps further the purposes of the center. Research facilitates growing knowledge and understanding of how to best create and maintain economic self-reliance. The following research categories involving the ESR Center exist:
1. Student research assistants are funded by the ESR Center.
2. Faculty advisors oversee and give direction to these students.
3. Faculty take on joint projects with the ESR Center.
4. Classes involving Economic Self-Reliance and Social Entrepreneurship are taught by qualified faculty and funded by the ESR Center.
5. Faculty use data collected by the ESR Center to do their own research projects.
The ESR Center has a Research Agenda which is a method for establishing best practices through continual feedback and improvement that will facilitate the economic self-reliance for millions of families around the world.
Research Agenda
- Create an Economic Self-Reliance Model
Our goal is to create an economic self-reliance model to provide our partners with a model that can help each organization most effectively accomplish its mission. - Enhance the Effectiveness of Practitioner Organizations
Because ESR Center is housed in the Marriott School of Management at Brigham Young University, we have both experience with and access to practitioners. - Promote Interventions with Best ESR Impacts
We have experience with numerous forms of interventions including microenterprise, microfranchising, education, and best business practices. We seek to promote those interventions that will provide the greatest impact on the greatest number. - Measure Success At Family Level
There is ample anecdotal evidence that shows the effectiveness of various forms of interventions. We are researching measurement tools for these outcomes that will allow us to constantly improve our economic self-reliance model (through this feedback loop) and will continually allow us to increase the impact we can have on economically vulnerable families.
Contact Information:
Academic DirectorGibb Dyerw_dyer@byu.edu 801.422.2666 |
