Alternative enterprises, local economies, and social justice: why smaller is still more beautiful

Parker, Martin

doi:10.3917/mana.204.0418

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“…In this contemporary debate, however, little attention has been given to how governments can create and implement development policies in ways that are likely to produce alternatives to the capitalist economy. Particularly in the Northern countries, this debate is still -to some extentpartially interdicted (Parker, forthcoming 2018).…”

Section: Organizing Alternatives As Relations With Governmentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Next steps in organizing alternatives to capitalism: toward a relational research agenda

Cruz¹,

Alves²,

Delbridge³

2017

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In the last ten years, the latest acute economic crisis of global capitalism has put in check most of the institutional pillars of the post-Keynesian consensus: globalization, free trade, free movement of capital and labor, and so on. Status quo response to the crisis was the enforcement of austerity economic models, cutting public budgets and curbing public services. Those economic models remain the dominant ways of thinking in the post-2008 crisis (Davis, 2009). Austerity was not only prescribed to the indebted economies of the Global South, but also to the gigantic powers of the North: Western Europe and North America. It was not by chance that various movements of anti-capitalism and neoliberal policies erupted, such as "Occupy Wall Street" in the United States and the "15-M Outraged Movement" in Spain, bringing together a group of actors who demanded a radical transformation of order, the end of economic austerity programs, and the reduction of social inequalities. Attention and interest in the movements contesting the capitalist order grew not only among the general public, but also within the academic circuit, not least in the area of business management. After a sustained and deep criticism of the inability of conventional literature to transcend traditional models of capitalist organizations responsible for deepening inequalities and maintaining the economic crisis, it seems that there is a movement to search for alternative ways of organizing capitalism in a more humane way, with greater attention to social, economic and environmental sustainability of organizations. As a consequence, literature around the topic of organizing alternatives to capitalism has gained traction among scholars in business and organizational theory. One expression of that is the recent spread of different organizational models and legal structures over the world, portraying diverse labels, such as social entrepreneurship (Dacin, Dacin &

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Section: Organizing Alternatives As Relations With Governmentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Next steps in organizing alternatives to capitalism: toward a relational research agenda

Cruz¹,

Alves²,

Delbridge³

2017

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“…Healy, 2009; Kokkinidis, 2015; Parker, 2017). In his discussion of different forms of alternative enterprises, Parker (2017, p. 425) highlights the element of altered ownership in community interest companies, social enterprises or worker cooperatives. He argues that collective ownership incentivises a form of organisation that “work [s] for them, and therefore for others” (ibid).…”

Section: Processes Of Socioecological Transformations and The Role Of Labourmentioning

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Transformative perspectives on labour geographies – The role of labour agency in processes of socioecological transformations

Grenzdörffer

2021

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Both geographical research on socioecological transformations and labour geography see decisive deficiencies in current capitalist structures centred around growth. To highlight possibilities of economic pluralism, both fields analyse diverse economic spaces within, next to and beyond capitalist structures. A basic assumption in transformation perspectives is that economic structures are not fixed, but can be transformed by people as economic actors. This corresponds to the concept of 'labour agency' from labour geography, i.e. that workers as active agents are able to (re)shape the structures they are embedded in.Despite those common perspectives, these threads of research coexist without having been intertwined. With a focus on wage labour, this paper addresses the potential for an integrative perspective illustrated by the example of companies owned/managed by workers. In charge of their own skills, time and resources, workers can actively break with prevalent market logics, which incentivise trading (human) resources at the lowest price possible. By rejecting core dynamics of capitalist structures, these companies illustrate the workers' potential key role in processes of socioecological transformations. Thus, the derived objectives of this paper are (1) to analyse and accentuateThis is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.

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“…Of course, studies have investigated specific environmental characteristics that may support or inhibit social innovation. For instance, a localized small business system may be more resilient to economic shocks and amenable to the development of environmentally sustainable social innovations (Parker, 2017). Certain communities respond more proactively to emergent problems (Dutta, 2017) and may have more cultural competence for novelty because of past trajectories of civic engagement (Clemens, 1997).…”

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Poisedness for social innovation: The genesis and propagation of community-based palliative care in Kerala (India)

Vijay¹,

Monin²

2018

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When and where do social innovations emerge? We address this question using comparative and historical analyses of organizing for palliative care in India. Although palliative care made inroads into different parts of India in the 1980s, it evolved as a vibrant sector only in the state of Kerala, through a novel community-based approach. By examining historical and social conditions, we reveal how poisedness, and particularly political poisedness, of time and place manifests in the genesis and propagation of a social innovation. We contribute to the literature on macro-foundations of social innovations by illustrating how an array of organizations and individuals create the very conditions of poisedness that are thereafter leveraged by institutional actors for the construction of novelty and propagation. Moreover, we specify the conditions of poisedness that are conducive to propagation, thereby contributing to conversations on distinct phases of emergence.

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Alternative enterprises, local economies, and social justice: why smaller is still more beautiful

Cited by 18 publications

References 14 publications

Next steps in organizing alternatives to capitalism: toward a relational research agenda

Next steps in organizing alternatives to capitalism: toward a relational research agenda

Transformative perspectives on labour geographies – The role of labour agency in processes of socioecological transformations

Poisedness for social innovation: The genesis and propagation of community-based palliative care in Kerala (India)

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