Community Development and Social Regeneration: How the Third Sector Addresses the Needs of BME Communities in Post-Industrial Cities

Wallace, James D.; Cornelius, Nelarine

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“…SE created by traditionally disadvantaged groups can also be considered as lesser: lacking the capacity to create robust, sustainable social and public goods. A CA-based study of such organizations showed clearly that these assumptions, themselves grounded in a “disadvantaged-as-less-capable” perspective, was misguided (Wallace & Cornelius, 2010 ).…”

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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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“…Further, although increasingly, academics and practitioners are becoming increasingly sensitive to the needs for SEs to be well run and governed (Cornelius et al , 2008; Wallace and Cornelius, 2010; Low, 2006; Mason et al , 2007) less attention has been made regarding the strictures that could be set by governments that choose to sub‐contract responsibility for social action to SEs. We suggest that there needs to be a clear agreement at the stage of contracting with government agencies.…”

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“…However, where established institutions have failed, third sector organisations such as SEs may be more effective (Cornelius and Wallace, 2011, 2012; Wallace and Cornelius, 2010; Spear and Bidet, 2005; Ridley‐Duff and Bull, 2011). For example, Jan‐Khan, 2003 praises the ethnic third sector, arguing that “a strong and vibrant black and minority ethnic voluntary sector which has served the specific needs of [these] communities in their own geographically based areas” (Jan‐Khan, 2003, p. 33).…”

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Capabilities, urban unrest and social enterprise

Cornelius

Wallace

2013

International Journal of Public Sector Management

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PurposeIn this article, the aim is to explore the rise of the role of the social enterprise as a “force for good” in the context of social and economic regeneration. Building on the growing importance of the third sector to central government as part of its agenda to diversify the delivery of public services, the paper seeks to question the veracity of the view that social enterprises invariably enable the communities in which they operate.Design/methodology/approachThe authors have developed this conceptual paper by building on the application of Amartya Sen's capabilities approach.FindingsIt is concluded that where social enterprises are contracted to provide services to communities, including those that would previously have been provided by the public sector (within a carefully crafted statutory framework), should have a demonstrable remit for community wide action, as this, it is argued, is more likely to facilitate community wide benefits. Part of any assessment should include, first, the sustainability of the contribution; and second, the extent to which they enable community members to exercise the choice to participate in the mainstream economy and society.Research limitations/implicationsThis theoretical account would benefit from empirical assessment.Practical implicationsThe article is of potential value to policy makers and researchers of social enterprise in urban, multicultural environments.Originality/valueThe article has attempted to use the capabilities approach to reconcile some of the tensions between the rhetoric and reality of social enterprise activity and its value in the context of the regeneration of communities.

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The Vulnerability and Strength Duality in Ethnic Business: A Model of Stakeholder Salience and Social Capital

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

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

Capabilities, urban unrest and social enterprise

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