B Corps: A Socioeconomic Approach for the COVID-19 Post-crisis

Sáiz-Álvarez, José Manuel; Vega-Muñoz, Alejandro; Acevedo-Duque, Ángel; Castillo, Dante

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01867

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“…The ancient literature on economic development and environmental protection has given way to a broader perspective of this concept that focuses on human development and people's values and objectives. Adopting a psychological point of view, References [95,96] consider sustainability not only in terms of ecological and social environments but also in terms of promoting the well-being of all people. In this regard [97,98] they proclaim that new human well-being measures are needed to replace the classic indicator of gross domestic product (GDP) as the main development objective at the country level.…”

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Contributions of Subjective Well-Being and Good Living to the Contemporary Development of the Notion of Sustainable Human Development

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The article analyzes the contributions of the notions of Good Living attributable to epistemologies, traditions, and subjective well-being at work, given the current changes in the working context, to enrich the concept of human development. The article is developed with an analytical-descriptive and synthetic approach, reconstructing the concept of Good Living through a theoretical-economic, ontological, and epistemological comparison and its dimensional axes. Methodologically, a systematic review of human development literature is used in Latin America through the Web of Science (WOS), comparing the UNDP Technical Notes (HDI) with the various approaches to Good Living published between 2010 and 2020. These documents were subjected to semantic contrast, with reference to the various dimensions and positions of human development as a generator of subjective well-being for the configuration of public labor policies. The main findings refer to the disagreement points evidenced in the two-axes dimensions of the Good Living measurement systems (mobility and safety, and cultural satisfaction within territories), an important factor being the sumak kawsay, the concept of Good Living. Sumak is fullness, the sublime, excellent, magnificent, beautiful, superior. Kawsay is life, being. However, it is dynamic, changing, and is not a passive question, and is thus not considered by the different evolutionary changes of the HDI.

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“…Among the empirical articles that refer to the theoretical framework used, the stakeholder theory mainly stands out [52,55,62,75]. Some articles are also based on the social identity theory [49], grounded theory [76] or business model theory [17,58].…”

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“…Within the empirical articles, two types of articles stand out depending on their methodology for data collection: those that conduct surveys [56,[58][59][60][61]63,65,[77][78][79] and those that use secondary databases as a source of information [22,25,46,49,50,52,53,62,64,66,76,80,81], among which B Lab particularly stands out. In some cases, they use data from both sources, that is, they conduct surveys, but also use information from secondary databases [54,55,57,[82][83][84][85][86].…”

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The B Corp Movement: A Systematic Literature Review

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This work develops a systematic literature review on the B Corp movement. Fifty articles were identified in the Web of Science and Scopus databases until 2020. Results show that it is an incipient field with great potential. There are two topics repeatedly addressed in the analyzed publications: the motivations of companies to be certified, and the economic and social effects that occur after certification. Sustainability is currently the reference journal in the field, since it has published a total of five articles. Finally, several lines of future work are proposed, such as the contribution of B Corp companies to the SDGs; the development of case studies on the certification process itself; and the development of methods for measuring social impact.

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“…Job quality has been defined along three dimensions; regularity, protection and autonomy [33], which seem to be appropriate at least for the analysis of formal job quality. The definition of job quality may differ between regions and nations, as well as between individuals, and in turn may vary over time according to their age or stage of life [26,[34][35][36]. The I.T.O.…”

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Latin American Microentrepreneurs: Trajectories and Meanings about Informal Work

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Latin America has suffered for many years deep economic, political, and social problems that have led to high levels of unemployment. Therefore, microentrepreneurship has been a way out of these precarious economic systems. This research presents an interpretative hermeneutic analysis of the meaning of work for microentrepreneurs in the metropolitan region of Lima, Peru. The qualitative naturalistic methodology was used and data were obtained through 24 interviews with microentrepreneurs according to inclusion criteria such as: located in the metropolitan region of Lima (divided into 4 regions: A, B, C, and D), more than 5 years of experience, more than 25 years of age, university level of study and having had a formal job. The data were processed through ATLAS.ti9, which allowed us to analyze the discourses of the microentrepreneurs. The main findings show the following emerging categories: Motivation for entrepreneurship, Advantages of self-employment, relationship with stakeholders or interest groups, and family involvement in the business. It is concluded that Latin American microentrepreneurs associate entrepreneurship as an opportunity to improve their quality of life and establish relationships with stakeholders, with the family playing a key role in the success or failure of the business.

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B Corps: A Socioeconomic Approach for the COVID-19 Post-crisis

Cited by 38 publications

References 54 publications

Contributions of Subjective Well-Being and Good Living to the Contemporary Development of the Notion of Sustainable Human Development

Contributions of Subjective Well-Being and Good Living to the Contemporary Development of the Notion of Sustainable Human Development

The B Corp Movement: A Systematic Literature Review

Latin American Microentrepreneurs: Trajectories and Meanings about Informal Work

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