Communities and social enterprises in the age of globalization

Berkes, Fikret; Davidson‐Hunt, Iain J.

doi:10.1108/17506200710779521

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“…Work in Mexico has begun to consider how a community-based enterprise intersects with the management of the commons . There is a rich literature emerging on indigenous and community-based enterprises Peredo and Chrisman 2006) and some initial attempts to create engagement between the two literatures (Berkes and Davidson-Hunt 2007). Cases in which there is overlapping membership between the commoners and the shareholders of the community-based enterprise, as is the case for San Juan and many indigenous enterprises in North America, seem to us to be particularly relevant to this scholarly dialogue.…”

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Community-based enterprises and the commons: The case of San Juan Nuevo Parangaricutiro, Mexico

Orozco-Quintero

Davidson‐Hunt

2009

Int J Commons

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What can we learn from an engagement between communitybased and indigenous enterprise, and commons literatures? That is what we set out to consider in this paper. Commons literature has tended to focus on the administration and use of the commons by individuals and households and less so on collective enterprises that extract, transform and market what they harvest from the commons. In the commons literature it has been cases of community forestry from Mexico which initiated an interest in understanding the linkages between commons and enterprises.In this paper, we consider a well known case in the community forestry and commons literature from Mexico. It provides an interesting case as the indigenous members that hold the rights for the commons are also the members of the enterprise that transforms and markets goods from the commons. We argue that the impetus for such a strategy is one way to confront internal and external pressures on a commons.We draw upon the transcripts of 40 interviews undertaken during 2006 which are analyzed using a framework developed from the social, community-based and indigenous enterprise literature. The framework we developed by reviewing this literature was used to understand what was known regarding the factors that increased chances of success for community enterprises. Our goal was to utilize this framework to analyze the San Juan Forest Enterprise and understand its emergence and formation as a long-standing community-based enterprise that intersects with a commons. In analyzing interview transcripts would we find that people involved in the enterprise reflected what enterprise scholars had found Community-based enterprises and the commons to be conditions that increased the chances of success of community-based enterprises?We found that by starting from the enterprise literature it was possible to consider the enterprise from the perspective of a regulatory framework rather than the poles of dependency and modernization theories in which much commons work has been based. Enterprise and commons intersect when both are guided by core cultural values and the enterprise can become a new site for the creation of social and cultural cohesion. We also found that there were a number of necessary conditions for commons-based community-enterprises to retain internal and external legitimacy, namely: (1) leadership representative of the broad social mission rooted in the customary institutions, values and norms of the community; (2) accountability of enterprise leaders to the memberships they represent; and (3) a close adherence to the political goals of the community as a whole.We conclude by noting that in the Americas there is a steady increase in the lands and waters being managed by Indigenous Peoples. An engagement between commons and community-based enterprise scholars could provide needed support for the emergence of community-based enterprises that sustainably manage commons and provide the means to relieve systemic poverty of indigenous communities.

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Community-based enterprises and the commons: The case of San Juan Nuevo Parangaricutiro, Mexico

Orozco-Quintero

Davidson‐Hunt

2009

Int J Commons

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“…It may also change over time to reflect political and social developments (Stollen et al 2009). Although scholarly thinking on 'communities' has changed from a focus on homogeneous entities to systems that are heterogeneous and complex (Agrawal and Gibson 1999;Guijt and Shah 1999), international policies and national management plans usually fail to reflect this new conceptualization as well as the diversity of interests that can be found among different community members (Berkes and Davidson-Hunt 2007).…”

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“…The relationships between rural communities and global actors can be mediated through social enterprises (Berkes and Davidson Hunt 2007). These businesses are set up to provide social dividends to community members such as self-determination, cultural revitalization, protection of watersheds and sacred sites, employment, capacity building, as well as a cash income (Berkes and Adhikari 2006).…”

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“…These businesses are set up to provide social dividends to community members such as self-determination, cultural revitalization, protection of watersheds and sacred sites, employment, capacity building, as well as a cash income (Berkes and Adhikari 2006). They often require a land and resource base, they operate in local, national and international markets, and require partnerships and networks to access knowledge, technology, capital and access to markets (Berkes and Davidson Hunt 2007).…”

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Vicuña conservation and poverty alleviation? Andean communities and international fibre markets

Lichtenstein

2009

Int J Commons

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Vicuna (Vicugna vicugna) fibre is produced by extremely low-income communities that inhabit the harsh environment of the Andes in Argentina, Chile, Peru and Bolivia. At the other end of the social scale, affluent consumers are willing to pay high prices for vicuna-made accessories and clothes. Vicuna management projects follow the logic of community-based wildlife management. The rationale for seeking to conserve vicuñas through sustainable use is that commercial utilization of the fibre (obtained from live-shorn animals) will generate sufficient economic benefits to outweigh the costs of conservation, and contribute to community development and poverty alleviation. However, although conservation efforts have been extremely successful with vicuñas having recovered from the brink of extinction, the socio-economic achievements have thus far proved modest. This paper explores multiple-objective projects that address vicuña conservation and poverty alleviation in Andean countries. In doing so, it analyses the tensions that exist between these objectives, as well as the factors that limit a more equitable distribution of benefits among stakeholders. Examples are drawn from vicuna management under common-property in Peru and Bolivia, and vicuna captive management under private property in Argentina. These case studies enable us to illustrate the complex relationship between local communities and the global market, and the importance of community enterprises and supportive government policy in managing a common pool resource.

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“…In Tianjin area has been built a Bonded Logistics Center or PLB located in the Northwest of Tianjin Economic Development with an area of 900.000 square meters with plans for a warehouse area of 220,000 square meters. (Peterson, 2016).…”

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Logistics Bonded Center as New Customs Facility Breakthrough for Reducing Logistics Time and Cost

Hidayat¹,

Firdaus²,

Lesmini³

et al. 2018

Proceedings of the Conference on Global Research on Sustainable Transport (GROST 2017)

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Communities and social enterprises in the age of globalization

Cited by 187 publications

References 25 publications

Community-based enterprises and the commons: The case of San Juan Nuevo Parangaricutiro, Mexico

Community-based enterprises and the commons: The case of San Juan Nuevo Parangaricutiro, Mexico

Vicuña conservation and poverty alleviation? Andean communities and international fibre markets

Logistics Bonded Center as New Customs Facility Breakthrough for Reducing Logistics Time and Cost

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