Social movement organizations agency for sustainable organizing

Etchanchu, Helen; Bakker, Frank C.; Delmestri, Giuseppe

doi:10.4337/9781789906035.00019

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“…They function as watchdogs for the national economy and politics, providing spaces for social and political exchange outside and above the institutionalized political arenas, and contribute to the proper functioning of the public sphere by supporting citizens in exercising their public and/or collective responsibilities (Habermas, 1962(Habermas, /1989. This applies particularly to juveniles who earn their first merits in political engagement, as the Fridays for Future movement has impressively shown (Etchanchu, de Bakker, & Delmestri, 2021). Aside from well-known global NGOs with a broader social or environmental agenda, such as Greenpeace, Amnesty International, and Human Rights Watch, some NGOs have focused on the challenges of digitalization.…”

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Guest Editors’ Introduction: New Challenges to the Enlightenment: How Twenty-First-Century Sociotechnological Systems Facilitate Organized Immaturity and How to Counteract It

2023

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Organized immaturity, the reduction of individual capacities for public use of reason constrained by sociotechnological systems, constitutes a significant pushback against the project of Enlightenment. Forms of immaturity have long been a concern for philosophers and social theorists, such as Kant, Arendt, Fromm, Marcuse, and Foucault. Recently, Zuboff’s concept of “surveillance capitalism” describes how advancements in digital technologies lead to new, increasingly sophisticated forms of organized immaturity in democratic societies. We discuss how sociotechnological systems initially designed to meet human needs can inhibit the multidimensional development of individuals as mature citizens. To counteract these trends, we suggest two mechanisms: disorganizing immaturity as a way to safeguard individuals’ and collectives’ negative freedoms (freedoms from), and organizing maturity as a way to strengthen positive freedoms (freedoms to). Finally, we provide an outlook on the five further articles that constitute the Business Ethics Quarterly Special Issue “Sociotechnological Conditions of Organized Immaturity in the Twenty-First Century.”

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Guest Editors’ Introduction: New Challenges to the Enlightenment: How Twenty-First-Century Sociotechnological Systems Facilitate Organized Immaturity and How to Counteract It

2023

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“…Employee activism has also led to companies establishing a climate action plans and net‐zero commitments. The last few years have seen heightening awareness and attention to environmental and social issues, mobilizing internal and external stakeholders through social movements or activism, and who seek to generate disruptive change (Etchanchu et al., 2021). Companies must then be able to learn from the evolving context and integrate changing expectations into the way they do business.…”

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Managing corporate social responsibility through social learning

Castillo

2022

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Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in the Mexican financial sector is constructed through a social learning process in which four CSR dimensions: influencers; motivations; issues; and outcomes interact, influence each other, and adjust within the boundaries of the Mexican institutional context. By looking at the case of the Mexican financial sector, this paper aims to study how firms engage in the process of managing their corporate social responsibility strategies to generate sustained competitive advantage. It posits that many organizations already consider the different dimensions, but they do so in a siloed way, and that CSR management can be more efficient by engaging in a structured double learning loop that allows firms to adapt their strategy and help them create long‐term value for the firm and its stakeholders. Successfully engaging in social learning can also enhance the firm's legitimacy, but doing so requires strong coordination between different teams and leadership and the capacity to set shared objectives. This research contributes to CSR literature by proposing a model for understanding CSR as a social learning process, and by providing empirical evidence for the understanding of CSR from an emerging country context.

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Social movement organizations agency for sustainable organizing

Cited by 2 publications

References 63 publications

Guest Editors’ Introduction: New Challenges to the Enlightenment: How Twenty-First-Century Sociotechnological Systems Facilitate Organized Immaturity and How to Counteract It

Guest Editors’ Introduction: New Challenges to the Enlightenment: How Twenty-First-Century Sociotechnological Systems Facilitate Organized Immaturity and How to Counteract It

Managing corporate social responsibility through social learning

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