Reinventing the firm: from post-war relief to international humanitarian agency

Private Sector

“…The nature of the post-World War ii humanitarian aid from the United States to Europe was mostly dictated by the availability of food products and consumer goods from well-known American companies. This aid facilitated European integration into liberal capitalism and the introduction of consumerism to European societies (Wieters 2016). During the Cold War era, the Global South turned into a market space in which humanitarianism could dispose of Western agricultural and commodity surplus, and discipline so called Third World citizens as healthy labor force and customers for Western businesses (Sasson 2016;Wieters 2016).…”

“…This aid facilitated European integration into liberal capitalism and the introduction of consumerism to European societies (Wieters 2016). During the Cold War era, the Global South turned into a market space in which humanitarianism could dispose of Western agricultural and commodity surplus, and discipline so called Third World citizens as healthy labor force and customers for Western businesses (Sasson 2016;Wieters 2016). The second half of the Cold War era witnessed human rights activism that was concerned with growing business interests in the expanding humanitarian space, as well as the changing role of some humanitarian agencies in the business capitalization of emergency situations (Sasson 2016).…”

Cross-Sector Partnerships for Systemic Change: Systematized Literature Review and Agenda for Further Research

“…Azevedo et al 2004;Kubde and Bansod 2010) and two focus on transformation of a specific organization (e.g. Wieters 2016). The remaining 17 articles had less obvious scales; for example, they consider institutional change in the context of partnerships (e.g.…”