Theorizing Discursive Resistance to Organizational Ethics of Care Through a Multi-stakeholder Perspective on Disability Inclusion Practices

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“…It is worth reiterating that our paper deliberately focused on the different “doings” of disability produced by social enterprises. Although this choice has yielded granular insights into the different ways in which social enterprises produce disability as a performative effect (Williams and Mavin, 2012), we see value in future research that looks at how disabled people themselves variously avoid, resist, or appropriate the discourses of disability to which they are subjected (Jammaers, 2022; Mitchell and Snyder, 2015). It is essential to include disabled people’s own views on their capacities, potential and ideals of work on the one hand and their reflections on the inner workings of social entrepreneurial interventions on the other (Chandra, 2018; Mauksch, 2021).…”

Section: Concluding Discussionmentioning

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“…It is not as if the founders were oblivious to these gender differences. In fact, a quota rule requiring that half of the staff be women was introduced to ensure equal opportunity (Jammaers, 2022), and Magic Fingers also took active steps to protect female therapists from sexual harassment. However, Magic Fingers' requirement that therapists be able to converse easily with clients indicates that its conception of equality was sometimes insensitive to culturally different conceptions of gender.…”

Section: Evaluating Therapists' Performance: Producing the Supercripmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, our empirical investigation of Magic Fingers will show that the SMD approach—when executed by social enterprises—involves the production of new attributions of value, ability, job aptitude, and performance (Bend and Priola, 2021; Holmqvist, 2009; Maravelias, 2022a). Unlike other SMD-inspired interventions and offers that aim to make accommodations to the physical and mental limitations of people with disabilities (Blanck, 2020), such as wheelchair ramps, quota regulations, or the availability of sign language interpreting (Jammaers, 2022), social entrepreneurial endeavors create new forms of employment that draw on the perceived capacities of disabled people (Chandra, 2018; Chui et al, 2021; Gidron, 2014; Ho and Chan, 2010; Hockerts, 2015). As social enterprise scholars have argued, the particularity of these enterprises consists precisely of creating better “matches” between what disabled people are perceived as capable of doing and what markets demand (Hockerts, 2015; Maravelias, 2022a).…”

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Treating disability as an asset (not a limitation): A critical examination of disability inclusion through social entrepreneurship

Mauksch

Dey

2023

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Social enterprises play an increasing role in providing employment opportunities for disabled people. This paper examines the implications of social enterprises’ market-based approach to disability inclusion, which is characterized by viewing disability as an asset rather than a limitation. Taking our inspiration from critical disability scholars who have pointed out that inclusion agendas produce disability as a distinct social reality, we use a performative lens to examine how social enterprises variously “do disability,” for instance, by defining where the potentials of disabled people lie and how best to promote them. Drawing on an ethnographic study of Magic Fingers, a Nepal-based enterprise that employs blind people as massage therapists, we identify entrepreneurial “doings” of disability that were guided by ideals of empowerment but that ultimately produced new and subtle forms of exclusion. By closely examining the case organization’s founding phase, as well as its practices of advertising, recruitment, and day-to-day management, we show how Magic Fingers commodified disability in novel ways, reinforced the notion of disability as a negative condition that must be “overcome” through work, and introduced new market-oriented evaluative distinctions between “more able” and “less able” disabled individuals. By exploring and evaluating these effects, this paper draws attention to the ways in which social enterprises, while challenging deficit-oriented representations of disability, can paradoxically solidify disability as something profoundly “other.”

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Section: Critical Disability Studies and The Performative Production ...mentioning

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Treating disability as an asset (not a limitation): A critical examination of disability inclusion through social entrepreneurship

Mauksch

Dey

2023

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“…Le organizzazioni svolgono un ruolo decisivo nell'inclusione delle persone con disabilità, come sottolineato da un recente filone di letteratura. 33 Le tecnologie, invece, si trovano in una posizione di confine: sono considerate strumenti indispensabili per l'accessibilità e l'empowerment delle persone con disabilità 34 ; tuttavia, la letteratura ha sottolineato come la tecnologia da sola non sia sufficiente a produrre un'adeguata inclusione e a garantire una vita indipendente alle persone con disabilità 35 , in quanto parte di una complessa rete di interdipendenze che comprende istituzioni pubbliche, produttori e aziende tecnologiche, servizi di dati e manutenzione, nonché quadro normativo 36 .…”

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Vulnerabilità e sostenibilità: primi spunti per uno studio dell'impatto sulle persone con disabilità e sulle future generazioni dei dispositivi [neuro]tecnologici

Mollo

Napolitano

Sicca

2023

European Journal of Privacy Law &Amp; Technologies

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Assistive technologies, as most recently enhanced by artificial intelligence, are increasingly used by persons with disabilities to express their will. However, the current legal framework does not always allow the use of technological tools for the conclusion of valid legal transactions. More specifically, in this contribution, attention will be focused on the analysis of the rules governing succession law in order to show how the rigid testamentary formalism that characterizes our legal system is an obstacle to the finalization of a valid will by those who can only express themselves by means of technological devices. The social repercussions, from the perspective of organizational studies, of the contradictions arising from the lack of coordination between technological development, the legal framework and the specific needs of people with disabilities will also be examined.

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“…The knowledge and approaches developed in diversity management provide complementary as well as new inspirations, especially with works touching on inclusion. In theorizing inclusion, utilitarianism appears to be resisted, for example, but the multiple facets of the ethics of justice are explored (Jammaers, 2022 ). This has not yet been the case in research on ethics in international management.…”

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Ethics at the Centre of Global and Local Challenges: Thoughts on the Future of Business Ethics

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To commemorate 40 years since the founding of the Journal of Business Ethics, the editors in chief of the journal have invited the editors to provide commentaries on the future of business ethics. This essay comprises a selection of commentaries aimed at creating dialogue around the theme Ethics at the centre of global and local challenges. For much of the history of the Journal of Business Ethics, ethics was seen within the academy as a peripheral aspect of business. However, in recent years, the stakes have risen dramatically, with global and local worlds destabilized by financial crisis, climate change, internet technologies and artificial intelligence, and global health crises. The authors of these commentaries address these grand challenges by placing business ethics at their centre. What if all grand challenges were framed as grand ethical challenges? Tanusree Jain, Arno Kourula and Suhaib Riaz posit that an ethical lens allows for a humble response, in which those with greater capacity take greater responsibility but remain inclusive and cognizant of different voices and experiences. Focussing on business ethics in connection to the grand(est) challenge of environmental emergencies, Steffen Böhm introduces the deceptively simple yet radical position that business is nature, and nature is business. His quick but profound side-step from arguments against human–nature dualism to an ontological undoing of the business–nature dichotomy should have all business ethics scholars rethinking their “business and society” assumptions. Also, singularly concerned with the climate emergency, Boudewijn de Bruin posits a scenario where, 40 years from now, our field will be evaluated by its ability to have helped humanity emerge from this emergency. He contends that Milieudefensie (Friends of the Earth) v. Royal Dutch Shell illustrates how human rights take centre stage in climate change litigation, and how business ethics enters the courtroom. From a consumer ethics perspective, Deirdre Shaw, Michal Carrington and Louise Hassan argue that ecologically sustainable and socially just marketplace systems demand cultural change, a reconsideration of future interpretations of “consumer society”, a challenge to the dominant “growth logic” and stimulation of alternative ways to address our consumption needs. Still concerned with global issues, but turning attention to social inequalities, Nelarine Cornelius links the capability approach (CA) to global and corporate governance, arguing that CA will continue to lie at the foundation of human development policy, and, increasingly, CSR and corporate governance. Continuing debate on the grand challenges associated with justice and equality, Laurence Romani identifies a significant shift in the centrality of business ethics in debates on managing (cultural) differences, positing that dialogue between diversity management and international management can ground future debate in business ethics. Finally, the essay concludes with a commentary by Charlotte Karam and Michelle Greenwood on the possibilities of feminist-inspired theories, methods, and positionality for many spheres of business ethics, not least stakeholder theory, to broaden and deepen its capacity for nuance, responsiveness, and transformation. In the words of our commentators, grand challenges must be addressed urgently, and the Journal of Business Ethics should be at the forefront of tackling them.

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Theorizing Discursive Resistance to Organizational Ethics of Care Through a Multi-stakeholder Perspective on Disability Inclusion Practices

Cited by 18 publications

References 73 publications

Treating disability as an asset (not a limitation): A critical examination of disability inclusion through social entrepreneurship

Treating disability as an asset (not a limitation): A critical examination of disability inclusion through social entrepreneurship

Vulnerabilità e sostenibilità: primi spunti per uno studio dell'impatto sulle persone con disabilità e sulle future generazioni dei dispositivi [neuro]tecnologici

Ethics at the Centre of Global and Local Challenges: Thoughts on the Future of Business Ethics

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