Expanding Workers’ ‘Moral Space’: A Liberal Critique of Corporate Capitalism

Blanc, Sandrine

doi:10.1007/s10551-013-2000-z

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“…Yet, this collective search is unlikely to be successful if our personal commitments and values are ignored, silenced, marginalised or suppressed. Instead, general normative principles for morally permissible organising will emerge from an expanded 'moral space' for workers (Blanc, 2014), and for stakeholders more broadly, 'to make their work part of their lived conception of the good' (ibid: 473), where value pluralism is maintained and protected as a vital resource for creating meaningfulness. This means that organisations seeking to develop their ethical capacity need to establish social practices which create opportunities for stakeholders to engage productively with value pluralism.…”

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Meaningfulness and Mutuality in a Critical Conception of the Corporation

Yeoman

2016

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This paper outlines a critical conception of the corporation which is grounded in respect for the intrinsic worth of stakeholders, and where the normative product of an organisation is assessed by the extent to which it promotes human dignity. The theoretical development relies upon an integration of meaningfulness and mutuality, where experiencing meaningfulness is a fundamental human need which is satisfied through our membership of organisations structured by the values and principles of mutuality. A critical theory of the corporation includes the following elements: a standard for evaluating organisations; a specific normative content for internal organising; an empirical grounding which connects to social realities; and an objective of human emancipation. Using a theoretical integration of meaningfulness and mutuality to provide normative substance, the standard is supplied by ethical capacity (understood as relational quality, deliberative voice and value pluralism); normative content by intrinsic worth; empirical validity by evidence of a fundamental need for meaning; and emancipatory objective by harnessing organisational purpose to the production of the common good. Respecting intrinsic worth is central to the activation of meaningfulness by mutual organisation, and is realised through voice practices which involve members in valuing, purposing and acting together.

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Meaningfulness and Mutuality in a Critical Conception of the Corporation

Yeoman

2016

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“…A first inherent tension in democratic capitalism is its tendency to centralize firms' monopolistic power, with governments attempting to break the monopolies from time to time. It has been a losing battle for democracy, and for some time, we have been talking about corporate capitalism and corporatocracy and their problems (Blanc 2014;Karadjov 2019). In these diverse forms of monopolistic capitalism, large firms control the economy, the politicians, the legislation, and indirectly, the people.…”

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Towards a New Form of Undemocratic Capitalism: Introducing Macro-Equity to Finance Development Post COVID-19 Crisis

Ashta

2021

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Sustainable Development Goal 16 talks about Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions, and goal 10 talks about reducing inequality. A major problem exposed by the COVID-19 crisis is that public deficits seem to be the normal state in the business cycle’s booms and downturns, limiting capacity for emergencies. Corporate capitalism has an incentive to perpetuate deficits to increase growth, provide risk-free interest income to financial institutions, and to increase inequalities and economic injustice. To counter this problem, the purpose of this communication is to suggest that countries need to issue equity capital, which we term macro-equity. This macro-equity will give dividends to its shareholders in times of public surplus and issue new shares in times of public deficits. The communication is written as a mind experiment, debating the issues that may arise. This proposal raises many questions of an ethical and moral nature that will lead to passionate debate. The use of macro-equity will reduce countries’ stress, created by high public debt. With appropriate incentives, it may create an entrepreneurial mindset in political leaders that may even reduce corruption and promote redistribution. The moral and ethical issues need to be weighed against the street violence in the absence of any change.

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“… 4 Nous pensons en particulier aux travaux de Nien-he Hsieh, Martin O'Neill, Samuel Arnold, Jeffrey Moriarty, Waheed Hussain ou Sandrine Blanc, qui datent tous globalement d'une même période (2008-2012). Voir par exemple Al-Amoudi et Blanc, 2013 ; Arnold, 2011 ; Blanc, 2014a, 2014b ; Hsieh, 2005 ; Hussain, 2009 ; Moriarty, 2009 ; O'Neill, 2008 ; O'Neill et Williamson, 2012b.…”

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Propriété et gestion des entreprises chez Rawls. L’ébauche rawlsienne des entreprises sous la démocratie de propriétaires et sous le socialisme démocratique

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2024

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Résumé John Rawls est souvent perçu comme un partisan de politiques redistributives visant à apaiser les conséquences d'une économie capitaliste qu'il ne remettrait pas en cause. Cet article montre qu'il s'agit là d'un préjugé et donne un aperçu de la transformation du paysage des entreprises qu'impliquerait une société juste aux yeux de Rawls. Nous commentons les régimes économiques qu'il esquisse dans son œuvre et rappelons que le libéralisme égalitaire a en vérité des implications profondes et souvent insoupçonnées en ce qui concerne la propriété et la gestion des entreprises. Pour Rawls, la démocratie de propriétaires implique que les citoyens possèdent tout au long de leur vie des parts sociales dans les entreprises tandis que le socialisme libéral suppose la nationalisation des moyens de production et la socialisation de leur gestion.

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Expanding Workers’ ‘Moral Space’: A Liberal Critique of Corporate Capitalism

Cited by 9 publications

References 26 publications

Meaningfulness and Mutuality in a Critical Conception of the Corporation

Meaningfulness and Mutuality in a Critical Conception of the Corporation

Towards a New Form of Undemocratic Capitalism: Introducing Macro-Equity to Finance Development Post COVID-19 Crisis

Propriété et gestion des entreprises chez Rawls. L’ébauche rawlsienne des entreprises sous la démocratie de propriétaires et sous le socialisme démocratique

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