Ethics, Faith, and Profit: Exploring the Motives of the U.S. Fair Trade Social Entrepreneurs

Cater, John James; Collins, Lorna; Beal, Brent D.

doi:10.1007/s10551-015-2934-4

Cited by 26 publications

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“…The reason for this is that the respondents perceive CN as clearly preferred to ISO 14001 in environmental terms while the advantage of ISO 14001 over CN in economic-strategic terms is not so pronounced. This conclusion is in line with previous studies in the literature reporting that ethical and environmental concerns beyond purely economic motivations are becoming increasingly relevant in corporate decision-making; see e.g., [42,44,50,58,61,63,73].…”

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Becoming Carbon Neutral in Costa Rica to Be More Sustainable: An AHP Approach

André

Valenciano-Salazar

2020

Sustainability

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We propose addressing an organization’s adoption of an environmental certification as a multicriteria problem considering environmental sustainability as well as economic and strategic aspects. Our methodological approach uses the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP), which we use in an empirical application to analyze the adoption decision of several Costa Rican firms and institutions. Firstly, we select a set of economic, strategic, and environmental criteria that seem relevant for the organization’s direction. We select these criteria according to our literature review and a series of face-to-face interviews with scholars and companies’ managers. As an environmental certification, we focus on Carbon Neutral (CN), which is a domestic certification aimed at reducing or offsetting carbon emissions. For the sake of comparison, we also consider ISO 14001, which is a well-known international standard aimed at compliance with environmental norms. We conduct the AHP analysis using the answers given by 24 companies and institutions, which in aggregate terms, give CN a higher score than ISO 14001. This result is mainly due to the fact that CN ranks above ISO 14001 when attending to environmental sustainability, although ISO 14001 tends to be preferred in economic and strategic terms.

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Section: Alternativessupporting

confidence: 91%

Becoming Carbon Neutral in Costa Rica to Be More Sustainable: An AHP Approach

André

Valenciano-Salazar

2020

Sustainability

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“…We test our framework with data from more than 15,000 entrepreneurs located in 43 countries. Social entrepreneurship is a suitable context in which to explore prosociality given the burgeoning attention of scholarship at the intersection of ethics and entrepreneurship (Bacq and Eddleston 2018;Cater et al 2017;Dey and Lehner 2017;Fowler et al 2017). We examine two ecological effects in two steps: In a first step, we show that the four human empowerment components-action resources, emancipative values, social movement activity, and civic entitlements-jointly lift entrepreneurs' inclination to adopt a social orientation for their business.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Since female entrepreneurs in more emancipatory climates are better able to live out their prosocial values, human empowerment strengthens the gender effect on social value creation goals. Previous research highlights the lack of theoretical contributions for helping better understand patterns in social entrepreneurship (Bacq and Eddleston 2018;Cater et al 2017;Dey and Lehner 2017;Fowler et al 2017). There is also still a research gap in terms of the impact of contextual variables on female entrepreneurs' value creation goals (Hechavarría et al 2017) and how environmental conditions moderate the influence of individual-level variables, such as gender, on social entrepreneurship (Stephan et al 2015).…”

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confidence: 99%

Prosociality in Business: A Human Empowerment Framework

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This study introduces a human empowerment framework to better understand why some businesses are more socially oriented than others in their policies and activities. Building on Welzel's theory of emancipation, we argue that human empowerment-comprised of four components: action resources, emancipative values, social movement activity, and civic entitlements-enables, motivates, and entitles individuals to pursue social goals for their businesses. Using a sample of over 15,000 entrepreneurs from 43 countries, we report strong empirical evidence for two ecological effects of the framework components on prosociality. We find that human empowerment (1) lifts entrepreneurs' willingness to choose a social orientation for their business, and (2) reinforces the gender effect on prosociality in business activity. We discuss the human empowerment framework's added value in understanding how modernization processes fully leverage the potential of social business activities for societies.

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“…Habilidad para desarrollar redes de contacto: se refiere a la capacidad para mantener relaciones positivas, formales o informales con personas del entorno (Ovais & Li, 2016) para acceder a recursos, capital financiero, clientes potenciales e información (Pollack et al, 2016) y expandir los alcances del emprendimiento (Bikse, Rivza, & Riemere, 2015;Sesen, 2013). Son claves la reputación, la confianza y la credibilidad que el emprendedor social cultiva entre sus contactos, dada la calidad y permanencia de sus relaciones a lo largo de su trayectoria (Abhi, 2017;Carter, Collins, & Beal, 2017;Gurrieri, 2013). Las redes reducen la incertidumbre, impulsan el espíritu emprendedor y previenen conflictos (Carter et al, 2017;Kristiansen & Ryen, 2002).…”

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“…Son claves la reputación, la confianza y la credibilidad que el emprendedor social cultiva entre sus contactos, dada la calidad y permanencia de sus relaciones a lo largo de su trayectoria (Abhi, 2017;Carter, Collins, & Beal, 2017;Gurrieri, 2013). Las redes reducen la incertidumbre, impulsan el espíritu emprendedor y previenen conflictos (Carter et al, 2017;Kristiansen & Ryen, 2002).…”

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