Dignity and the Process of Social Innovation: Lessons from Social Entrepreneurship and Transformative Services for Humanistic Management

Pirson, Michael; Vázquez-Maguirre, Mario; Corus, Canan; Steckler, Erica; Wicks, Andrew C.

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“…Humanistic management is centrally concerned with improving the conditions of life on earth [15], the protection of dignity, human flourishing, and the promotion of well-being [2,7]. Dignity and freedom were initially vital principles in market-based and agency models.…”

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“…Dignity and freedom were initially vital principles in market-based and agency models. However, successive models of organizing through the Industrial Revolution and the twentieth century shifted away from assumptions of inherent human worth toward profit maximization and efficiency measures [7]. As a consequence, human worth started to be valued as an asset or resource defined by the price mechanism [16].…”

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“…The 2019 International Labour Conference [21] connects dignity protection with providing basic income security and social security access, and it presents these practices in terms of individual rights associated with the United Nations' SDGs. Pirson et al mention that scholars are still exploring how to better identify and prioritize dignity in organizing and value generation, which represent a promising research topic for humanistic management, one that will shed light on how to better design human-centered organizations [7].…”

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“…Societies are also demanding different metrics of well-being, more related to happiness and protection of human rights than economic growth or financial performance [6]. In this sense, different types of productive organizations have emerged seeking more humane and life-conducive organizing that prioritize positive stakeholder impacts instead of profit maximization [7].…”

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Building Sustainable Rural Communities through Indigenous Social Enterprises: A Humanistic Approach

Vázquez-Maguirre

2020

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This article follows a humanistic management approach to analyze how indigenous social enterprises contribute to building sustainable rural communities. To this end, I first explore the process of how these entities were formed and developed the necessary capabilities to generate such outcomes. Then, I examine the strategies indigenous social enterprises create to engage in value creation activities with the community and their main outcomes. Such outcomes are finally classified by the problems they addressed according to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), since one of the gaps in the literature indicates a lack of studies that relate specific SDGs with the outcomes of social enterprises in developing countries. This article follows a qualitative approach, a case study research strategy, and uses semi-structured interviews as the main data collection instrument. Evidence from four cases of indigenous social enterprises in Latin America suggests that these entities originate as a result of a major crisis that affects the dignity of the individuals and compromises the socio-economic dynamics of the communities. Second, local leadership urges a response that takes the form of a social enterprise that follows local principles and governance and pursues dignity protection, sustainability, and cultural reaffirmation. As a result, the communities have increased their levels of well-being and sustainability, linked to SDGs such as good health, decent work, reduced inequalities, public infrastructure, sustainable communities, and partnerships for the goals. This article also sheds light on how a humanistic management approach can contribute to a better understanding of the dynamics of social enterprises, as these humanistic principles and practices seem to be naturally promoted by social entrepreneurs.

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“…In the first paper, Pirson et al (2019) examine dignity and its role in the process of social innovation. The authors are particularly looking at lessons from the domains of Social Entrepreneurship and Transformative Services to highlight how the concept of dignity can help shape the process of social innovation.…”

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Social Innovation and the Future of Business and Business Education

2019

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We are witnessing the fracturing of the traditional business system. Global governments demand business to not only focus on financial outcomes but rather advance progress towards the sustainable development goals. Customers of all ages but especially of the millenial and younger cohorts are pressuring companies towards more ethical business practices. Investors like Larry Fink demand long term oriented management. The business roundtable in the United States feels it needs to revoke the tenets of shareholder value maximization and reuissues their statement on the purpose of the corporation to be stakeholder value creation. While these trends are occuring at the surface level and many observers remain very cynical we argue that there is a deeper shift occuring. Some observers call it a shift in consciousness and argue that we witness a new paradigm emerge. In the Fall of 2018 a number of thought and action leaders gathered in Tarrytown, NY at the invitation of the Gabelli School of Business to explore the deeper shifts occuring. The concept of social innovation provided the brackets and organizing focus of the conference. Five subcontexts were explored in separate tracks by teams of 5-6 participants. The first track focused on the notion of dignity as an central concept to explain the paradigm shift occuring. Dignity is often used as a casual termwithstanding its potential power as a foundational organizing principle. Scholars have argued that dignity can be as foundational a concept as utility has been to think about organizing economic and political affairs. The track explored this proposition and discussed the notion of human dignity as cornerstone of innovative efforts. Dignity understood as that which is beyond price and intrinsically valuable challenges traditional and dominant theories of organizing, including innovation. Some of the questions this track explored were related to how we can manage to protect dignity and what kind of innovation processes do managers need to engage with to foster social innovation that honors, protects, promotes and restores dignity. Michael Pirson was joined by Erica Steckler of the

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Dignity and the Process of Social Innovation: Lessons from Social Entrepreneurship and Transformative Services for Humanistic Management

Cited by 26 publications

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Building Sustainable Rural Communities through Indigenous Social Enterprises: A Humanistic Approach

Building Sustainable Rural Communities through Indigenous Social Enterprises: A Humanistic Approach

Social Innovation and the Future of Business and Business Education

Relational Goods and Organization Change in 4.0 Era

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