Eco-Social Enterprises

Johanisova, Nadia; Fraňková, Eva

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“…Degrowth focuses intensely on the forms on production, including proposing a wide variety of such forms. Those forms may include household and artisanal producers (Trainer and Alexander, 2019), small firms (Schumacher, 1993;Leonhardt et al, 2017;Trainer and Alexander, 2019), alternative business models (Leonhardt et al, 2017), social enterprises (Johanisova and Frankova, 2017). What remains essential is understanding how these forms of production can be and can produce in different locations, how place sensitivity can be manifested alongside the realization and honoring of being part of nature and the cosmos.…”

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Being in the World Locally: Degrowth Business, Critical Realism, and Humanistic Geography

Nesterova

2022

Front. Sustain.

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It has been argued that to achieve a genuinely sustainable society, our mode of being in the world needs to change. Understanding macro visions such as the desirable size of our economies remains essential, but concrete ways of being in the world which unite such aspects of our existence as the self, being with others (humans and non-humans) and being in and with nature deserve a much closer attention. Hence, I propose focusing our attention on being once again. But rather than contemplating being as an abstract philosophical category, this paper looks at being in the world in this dual sense: we are part of the cosmos, of the web of existence and at the same time we are in the world locally, in concrete places and locations characterized by particular cultural attributes, political-economic systems, climate and landscape. This nature of being applies to individual humans and human organizations. This paper focuses specifically on business as one type of organizations. I employ the concept of degrowth business, the philosophy of critical realism and humanistic geography as lenses to enhance and deepen our understanding of what it could mean and look like for a business to be in the world locally and more sustainably. To understand what it could mean and look like in reality, I offer a case of a firm from Northern Sweden specializing in vertical hydroponic agriculture.

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Being in the World Locally: Degrowth Business, Critical Realism, and Humanistic Geography

Nesterova

2022

Front. Sustain.

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“…These goals may be recorded in the founding documents, legal charter, or vision statement. While contributions with a focus on social enterprises stress the explicit aim to benefit the community and to foster societal wellbeing (Bacq & Janssen, 2011; Johanisova & Fraňková, 2017), post‐growth scholars also emphasize environmental goals (e.g. Hankammer et al., 2021; Nesterova, 2020a; Nesterova, 2021; Schmid, 2018).…”

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Transformative enterprises: Characteristics and a definition

2022

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This paper contributes to an emerging discussion about transformative enterprises, which are increasingly seen as change agents in sustainability transformations. Some scholars have hitherto described them as pioneering enterprises that strive for fundamental changes towards sustainability at different scales. Economic geography has, however, so far glossed over a micro-perspective on such enterprises. In this paper, we define transformative enterprises in detail by systematically identifying and elaborating their characteristics and actions. We ask: What operationalizable characteristics that refer to transformative enterprises are discussed in the literature? How can we define transformative enterprises?Starting from a comprehensive literature review, we identify nine key dimensions of transformative enterprises that we specify with a set of indicators, and we then synthesize our finding with a definition. With this contribution, we further develop the concept of transformative enterprise in economic geography and show how it complements current conceptualizations of firm-level agency and system-level agency.

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“…Some of these-e.g. so-called eco-social enterprises 102 or environmental social enterprises (ESE) 103 -try to balance the three imperatives of the economic, the social as well as the environmental. This balancing is, however, demanding as potential trade-offs between these aims represent a continuous challenge and the survival of these organizations 'is often achieved by having an imbalance in value exchanges that is compensated elsewhere in the business model'.…”

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What does sustainability demand? An institutionalist analysis with applications to China

Tan

Vatn

2021

Journal of Chinese Governance

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In this paper we discuss if existing political and economic institutions can ensure sustainable futures. We do so by combining a global outlook with more specifically examining the situation in China. Present institutions foster growth, they are however weak at motivating actions that keep economies within an environmentally safe and socially just space. We especially note the challenges that strong focus on growth combined with ex post environmental regulations create for natural systems with tippingpoints. In this situation, there is a need to change institutions to ensure strong emphasis on long-term sustainability as opposed to short term economic surplus. Regarding political decision-making, we discuss ways to break short-termism through strengthening public deliberation as well as formalizing political responsibility for the future. Regarding economic institutions, we emphasize the need to widen the goals of firms including responsibilities for environmental qualities. The latter may demand changes in ownership structures.

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Eco-Social Enterprises

Cited by 8 publications

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Being in the World Locally: Degrowth Business, Critical Realism, and Humanistic Geography

Being in the World Locally: Degrowth Business, Critical Realism, and Humanistic Geography

Transformative enterprises: Characteristics and a definition

What does sustainability demand? An institutionalist analysis with applications to China

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