Border Thinking in Action: Should Critical Management Studies Get Anything Done?

Faria, Alex

doi:10.1108/s2046-6072(2013)0000002018

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“…This feeds into the current gaps in CSR literature when it comes to Africa, its people, culture, markets, and the way that African businesses and governments organize themselves for responsible business with MNCs. All of this reinforces the current narrative made up of ethnocentric, epistemological claims and domesticated criticisms that constantly maintain hierarchical structures of truth [84]. By recognizing these critical caveats, we can build on, refine, and refute existing knowledge claims that are based on novel evidence and/or convincing logic.…”

Section: Distributive Injustice-government-firm Connivance As Originsmentioning

confidence: 67%

Institutional Voids and the Philanthropization of CSR Practices: Insights from Developing Economies

Ahen

Amankwah‐Amoah

2018

Sustainability

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Corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices and conceptions vary across sectors and nations. However, there is a general tendency among academics and practitioners to present CSR in Africa as activities characterized by philanthropy due to the existence of institutional voids. This review of the current literature demonstrates that weak institutions lead to weaker bargaining powers designed through the historical and geopolitical institutional frameworks of international business and global governance systems. Accordingly, multinational corporations (MNCs) take advantage of such weaknesses to define CSR on their own terms by replacing the ideal responsible and sustainable innovations with ad hoc philanthropy that diverts the attention from the negative consequences of neoliberal 'structures of accumulation'. This is akin to aid that hardly contributes to structural changes, but rather leads to complacency, corruption, dependency, boutique projects, disguised exploitation, and the misuse of corporate political power to achieve corporate bottom lines. The implications of the results are vast, and they are generalizable to all weaker institutional settings. Thus, weaker institutions create the necessary regulatory, political, economic, and governance climate that perpetuates a pattern of abuses and ethical violations that are then masked with philanthropy. It is argued that the fundamental institutional and geopolitical contexts within which MNCs interact with nation states cannot be ignored in any comprehensive analysis that seeks to meaningfully shed light on the comparative differences of CSR practices. The neglect of the web of contextual, historical, and geopolitical issues in which CSR is entrenched and framed diverts attention from the origins of the socio-economic and environmental questions to philanthropy as a final solution, which has hitherto been perpetuated with undesirable outcomes.

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Section: Distributive Injustice-government-firm Connivance As Originsmentioning

confidence: 67%

Institutional Voids and the Philanthropization of CSR Practices: Insights from Developing Economies

Ahen

Amankwah‐Amoah

2018

Sustainability

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“…De uma maneira geral, o border thinking representa um método decolonial de desenvolver pesquisas. No entanto ainda há poucos trabalhos que abordam tal perspectiva (Faria, 2013). O border thinking nos leva a questionamentos que devem ser comuns a qualquer tipo de pensamento a ser abordado.…”

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“…Para que possamos desenvolver a possibilidade de interseção entre o border thinking (Faria, 2013;Grosfoguel, 2009;Mignolo & Tlostanova, 2006), e as discussões teóricas elaboradas por Guerreiro Ramos (1958;1963) e Celso Furtado (1959;, apresentaremos uma síntese dos objetivos e principais pontos construídos pelos autores nos livros selecionados. Tais obras serão apresentadas em pares de acordo com a época de publicação.…”

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“…As similaridades dos dois conceitos são presenças fortes na proposição de um 'conhecimento outro' , independente, preocupado com romper barreiras estrangeiras para produzir impactos signicativos nas realidades locais. Falamos em realidades justamente por compartilhar a percepção de que existem muitos mundos e conhecimentos coexistindo (Faria, 2013). Guerreiro Ramos, por exemplo, se fundamentou nos constructos de Husserl e Heidegger, autores que não faziam parte da realidade brasileira e, portanto, não desenvolveram seus estudos para esse contexto.…”

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Decolonialidade, border thinking e organizações: as contribuições de Guerreiro Ramos e Celso Furtado

Bauer¹,

Silva²,

Wanderley³

2019

Cuad Adm.

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Este artigo busca contribuir com a opção decolonial para a compreensão da realidade organizacional na América Latina. O projeto Modernidade/Colonialidade/Decolonialidade (MCD) é promovido por autores latino-americanos, predominantemente de língua materna espanhola. Contudo, poucos são os autores do pensamento social brasileiro citados nos trabalhos elaborados a partir desta perspectiva. Diante disso, o objetivo do artigo é trazer a contribuição de dois autores brasileiros, o sociólogo Guerreiro Ramos e o economista Celso Furtado, que muito têm a contribuir com o projeto MCD, bem como para a melhor compreensão das organizações na América Latina. Logo, o artigo investiga, com base na perspectiva border thinking, quais as interseções das obras “A Redução Sociológica” (Ramos, 1958) e “Formação Econômica do Brasil” (Furtado, 1959); e “A Pré-Revolução Brasileira” (Furtado, 1962) e “Mito e Verdade da Revolução Brasileira” (Ramos, 1963).

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“…The Eurocentric approach to risk analysis is a limited and selfserving myopia that creates different forms of conflict due to its resource and rent-seeking strategy of doing business in the peripheries of Africa. Faria (2014) argues for a trans-modern pluriversal perspective that would allow for many worlds and many bodies of knowledge to co-exist to reflect the actual realities of today within the context of historical experience. The rent-seeking business strategies create risk both in the short-term and long-term objectives of international businesses within Africa.…”

Section: Theoretical and Conceptual Trends To Identify Riskmentioning

confidence: 99%

Critical perspectives on “manufactured” risks arising from Eurocentric business practices in Africa

Adams

Nayak

Koukpaki

2018

CPOIB

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Border Thinking in Action: Should Critical Management Studies Get Anything Done?

Cited by 35 publications

References 27 publications

Institutional Voids and the Philanthropization of CSR Practices: Insights from Developing Economies

Institutional Voids and the Philanthropization of CSR Practices: Insights from Developing Economies

Decolonialidade, border thinking e organizações: as contribuições de Guerreiro Ramos e Celso Furtado

Critical perspectives on “manufactured” risks arising from Eurocentric business practices in Africa

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