Who Speaks for the Trees? Invoking an Ethic of Care to Give Voice to the Silent Stakeholder

Sama, Linda M.; Welcomer, Stephanie A.; Gerde, Virginia W.

doi:10.4337/9781845423629.00013

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“…In producing economic well-being, wise organizations seek to add value not only to their products and services but also to all relationships and processes. Therefore, to be wise and truly responsive to the environment, the inner voice or conscience must permeate an organization's processes and be incorporated as a part or extension of itself (Sama et al 2004).…”

Section: Analysis and Implications For Future Researchmentioning

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Wise Up: Creating Organizational Wisdom Through an Ethic of Kaitiakitanga

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Organizations are searching for innovative business approaches that deliver profits and create shared value for all stakeholders. We show what can be learned from the relational wisdom approach of Indigenous Māori and reframe the prevailing economic argument that has seen companies profit and prosper at the expense of communities and ecologies. We develop an ethic of kaitiakitanga model premised on Māori values which holds the potential to enrich and further humanize our understanding of business. The Māori economy is a globally connected, prosperous, and profitable sector of the New Zealand economy. By drawing on Māori values, we present a wisdom position through an ethic of kaitiakitanga or stewardship to emphasize and illustrate the interconnectedness of life in a woven universe. Through practicing kaitiakitanga, organizations can build businesses where wisdom is consciously created through reciprocal relationships. In this worldview of business, humans are stewards endowed with a mandate to use the agency of their mana (spiritual power, authority, and sovereignty) to create mauri ora (conscious well-being) for humans and ecosystems-and this commitment extends to organizations.

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Wise Up: Creating Organizational Wisdom Through an Ethic of Kaitiakitanga

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“…Some work has been done in this direction though failed thus far to be picked up substantially by the mainstream. For example, the ethic of care has been applied to corporate governance (Machold, Ahmed, & Farquhar, 2008), environmental sustainability (Sama, Welcomer, & Gerde, 2004), and corporate citizenship (Dion, 2001). Furthering these initial analyses, and augmenting them with other business and society concepts such as corporate philanthropy and corporate community involvement, could be of great value.…”

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“…The revised versions of CSR theory could also usefully be tested for their relevance in other empirical contexts. Stakeholder theory and care has already received some treatment as previously noted in terms of the environment as a stakeholder (Sama et al, 2004), the Maori culture (Spiller et al, 2011), and with reference to employee rights (Burton & Dunn, 1996a). It would be interesting to assess whether there is any special alignment to the so-called "feminine" cultures such as in Denmark, or "masculine" cultures such as Japan.…”

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Small Business Social Responsibility

2014

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This article seeks to expand business and society research in a number of ways. Its primary purpose is to redraw two core corporate social responsibility (CSR) theories (stakeholder theory and Carroll's CSR pyramid), enhancing their relevance for small business. This redrawing is done by the application of the ethic of care, informed by the value of feminist perspectives and the extant empirical research on small business social responsibility. It is proposed that the expanded versions of core theory have wider relevance, value, and implications beyond the small firm context. The theorization of small business social responsibility enables engagement with the mainstream of CSR research as well as making a contribution to small business studies in scholarly, policy, and practice terms.

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“…maximizing the outcomes for the whole system rather than the individual parts. While further research is required to develop these new structures, stakeholder networks (Sama et al, 2004;Sharma and Starik, 2004;Windsor, 2004) and industrial ecosystems (Korhonen and Snakin, 2005;Shrivastava, 1995;Tibbs, 1993) may provide building blocks.…”

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An ecological modernist interpretation of sustainability: the case of Interface Inc.

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Cocklin

2006

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This article seeks to extend understanding of how sustainability is operationalized in firms by considering the example of Interface Inc. In particular, we assess the sustainability policy and strategies of Interface Inc. within the frame recourse of an ecological modernization (EM) perspective of sustainability. One question of particular interest is whether organizations are able to implement an EM-aligned worldview through their own internal capabilities or whether changes to the wider socio-economic system are required. The analysis of Interface's experiences suggests that, at this stage, an organization cannot fully adhere to an EM perspective of sustainability; its success is also dependent on changes to the wider socio-economic system in which the firm operates. The critical factors in implementing sustainability that emerged from the Interface case study are discussed.

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Who Speaks for the Trees? Invoking an Ethic of Care to Give Voice to the Silent Stakeholder

Cited by 12 publications

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Wise Up: Creating Organizational Wisdom Through an Ethic of Kaitiakitanga

Wise Up: Creating Organizational Wisdom Through an Ethic of Kaitiakitanga

Small Business Social Responsibility

An ecological modernist interpretation of sustainability: the case of Interface Inc.

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