Engaging Fringe Stakeholders in Business and Society Research: Applying Visual Participatory Research Methods

McCarthy, Lauren; Muthuri, Judy N.

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“…Grosser and Moon's identification of the broad contributions of feminist theory to organizational research sets the stage for our introduction of Smith's () feminist sociology of knowledge. We agree with Grosser and Moon that the production of knowledge is a feminist issue, as do McCarthy and Muthuri (, p. 3) in their research on “fringe stakeholders”—women and other marginalized participants in a project reconceptualizing CSR usage. The problem McCarthy and Muthuri identify is that these (non‐salient) stakeholders’ knowledge will be excluded from the potential benefits of the pending redesign of CSR strategies.…”

Section: Locating the Human Subjects Of Development Relationssupporting

confidence: 72%

“…Both analyses are concerned with power and its implications. We understand McCarthy and Muthuri () to be taking the standpoint of the women to make their knowledge available for pending CSR decisions . In contrast, an institutional ethnographer would examine the social relations in which CSR is a solution to an institutional problem; to be discovered is how the development project characterizes its subjects, their experiences and needs, and how it responds to them , if at all.…”

Section: Locating the Human Subjects Of Development Relationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The (missing) subjects of research on gender and global governance: Toward inquiry into the ruling relations of development

Campbell

Kim²

2018

Business Ethics: A Eur Rev

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Responding to the Special Issue's call for “new thinking” on gender and governance in developing societies, we introduce our research on the social organization of development knowledge and its ethical implications. Our feminist‐based approach, institutional ethnography, analyses the ruling relations of development and the standpoints represented in knowledge about development and its governance. Our paper offers an alternative to what we see as “the institutional standpoint” prevailing, but taken for granted, in business and society scholarship addressing development. Instead of theorizing development relationships between institutions and their “stakeholders,” we illustrate what can be learned about the social relations of development beginning from the experiences of local subjects. Our analysis of an environmental research and development project in Uzbekistan shows that being missed is knowledge about development subjects that could have revealed what is locally relevant and needed. Instead, we discover gender inequality being constituted, unknowingly, within this project's institutionally generated knowledge and the activities it authorizes.

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Section: Locating the Human Subjects Of Development Relationssupporting

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Section: Locating the Human Subjects Of Development Relationsmentioning

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The (missing) subjects of research on gender and global governance: Toward inquiry into the ruling relations of development

Campbell

Kim²

2018

Business Ethics: A Eur Rev

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“…Participatory and visual methods were hence utilized to empower the participants to participate meaningfully and to treat them as 'agents' and 'participants' rather than passive subjects of research (e.g. McCarthy & Muthuri, 2016;Gough, Langevang and Namatovu, 2014). For example, throughout the discussions, participants were encouraged to make use of symbolic objects such as coins to reference money, books to correspond to education, and band aids to refer to health.…”

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Cross-Sector Partnerships as Capitalism’s New Development Agents: Reconceiving Impact as Empowerment

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Cross-sector partnerships are currently praised as capitalism’s key governance instrument to address development challenges. Although some concern has been raised about the effectiveness of such partnerships, little is known about their actual impact. Often it is assumed that partnership outputs transform straightforwardly into societal impact such as poverty alleviation. This article problematizes this assumption. Employing a critical micro-level study, which draws on a qualitative case study of a nongovernmental organization (NGO)–business partnership in Ghana, we examine how outputs provided by a partnership are put to use and perceived as beneficial from the point of view of its beneficiaries. The findings show that the partnership results in what we term “competences without agency” since it provides new resources and knowledge to the beneficiaries but fails to generate the conditions for these to be transformed into significant changes in their lives. Drawing on the concept of empowerment, we propose a new framework, which conceptualizes “impact as empowerment” and highlights currently unrecognized dynamics, which contribute to shaping the ability of a partnership to serve as a development agent.

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“…The larger research project from which my data is taken explored the gendered CSR elements of the company's CSR activities (see McCarthy & Moon, ). In this paper, I focus on two: women farmers’ leadership training, and “alternative” livelihood training, such as batik‐printing, soap‐making, and jewellery making.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“There is no time for rest”: Gendered CSR, sustainable development and the unpaid care work governance gap

McCarthy

2018

Business Ethics: A Eur Rev

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Unpaid care work, including child care, elder care, and housework, is unremunerated work essential to human survival and flourishing. Worldwide, women disproportionally carry out this work, impacting upon their ability to engage in other activities, such as education, employment, or leisure. Despite a growing number of businesses engaging in “gendered CSR,” in the form of women's empowerment projects, attention to unpaid care work remains little discussed in the literature, despite its importance to sustainable development. Applying Diane Elson's feminist economic framework for alleviating unpaid care work inequality to a case study of gendered CSR in Ghana, I find that at present unpaid care work is (a) unrecognised in business’ CSR, (b) may be both reduced or exacerbated by CSR efforts, and (c) remains conceptualised as relevant only to the private sphere, therefore, missing a unique opportunity for business to contribute to gender equality and sustainable development. Connecting unpaid care work and business responsibility contributes to a more expansive understanding of what CSR may be.

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Engaging Fringe Stakeholders in Business and Society Research: Applying Visual Participatory Research Methods

Cited by 49 publications

References 109 publications

The (missing) subjects of research on gender and global governance: Toward inquiry into the ruling relations of development

The (missing) subjects of research on gender and global governance: Toward inquiry into the ruling relations of development

Cross-Sector Partnerships as Capitalism’s New Development Agents: Reconceiving Impact as Empowerment

“There is no time for rest”: Gendered CSR, sustainable development and the unpaid care work governance gap

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