Solidarity and Organization: Toward New Avenues for Management

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Solidarity is an ‘unthought’ in the fields of organizational theory and management sciences. However, it is an increasingly important feature in the management of organizations. The contemporary world suffers from a double unsustainability: the abusive exploitation of natural resources endangers the balance of the climate and biodiversity, while growing inequalities condemn our ability to maintain a balanced society. These unsustainabilities are mutually reinforcing and call for the affirmation of a double solidarity, which unites humans among themselves, and links humans and nonhumans. Such an effort cannot be decreed. It must be organized.

Based on numerous grassroots initiatives and citizens’ experimentations that are being invented every day around the world and on a historical and anthropological approach, this book explores different ways of combining solidarity and organization. Solidarity-based management, governance of the commons, and Buen Vivir approaches are some of the perspectives analyzed in the context of a North-South dialogue in order to formulate the conceptual framework and practical steps of a social and environmental transition. It offers both theoretical background and living examples to students, professors and researchers to better understand and better teach new avenues for management.

Author(s): Philippe Eynaud, Genauto Carvalho de França Filho
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2023

Language: English
Pages: 262
City: Cham

Foreword
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
1: A Double Unsustainability
1.1 A Need for Solidarity
1.2 Management at the Heart of Contemporary Problems
1.3 From Solidarity Economy to Solidarity Management
References
2: Solidarity: An Unthought in Organizational Theory?
2.1 Solidarity and the History of Management: Missed Appointments
2.1.1 The Prevalence of Anglo-Saxon Literature and Its Consequences
2.1.2 The Truncated Reading of the Work of the Initiators of the Discipline
2.1.3 Nonsolidarity American Pioneers
2.1.4 Can the Managerial Revolution Be Mutually Supportive?
2.1.5 The Firm as an Institution
2.1.6 The Firm as a Social Business
2.1.7 Forgetting Solidarity and Its Consequences
2.2 From History to Counter-History
2.2.1 Solidarity and Organization Are Compatible
2.2.2 Solidarity Is Based on a Quasi-contract
2.2.3 Solidarity and Self-interest Rightly Understood
2.2.4 Solidarity at the Heart of Organizational Thinking
2.2.5 Solidarity and Rationality
2.2.6 The Emergence of Social Economy
2.2.7 The Organizational Innovation of the Social Economy
2.2.8 The Managerial Professionalization of Cooperatives
2.2.9 Management and Recognition
2.2.10 Managing the Good Life and Anti-colonial Thinking
2.2.11 Management and Popular Economy
2.2.12 From Practice to Ideals: Solidarity in Brazilian Critical Thinking
2.3 Remaking the History of Management from a Solidarity Perspective
References
3: (Re)organizing Solidarity
3.1 Organizing Solidarity by Rethinking Its Economy
3.1.1 The Economy Is Not Reduced to the Market
3.1.2 The Proposal of a Substantive Economy
3.1.3 The Question of Fictitious Goods
3.1.4 The Implications of Substantive Economics for Organizational Theory
3.2 Organizing Solidarity by Rethinking Its Rationality: The Contribution of Guerreiro Ramos
3.2.1 Power and Conditioning of Formal Organizations
3.2.2 The Behavioral Syndrome Induced by the Formal Organization
3.2.3 The Instrumental Reason of Formal Organizations
3.2.4 In Praise of Substantive Rationality
3.2.5 The Concept of Para-economy
3.2.6 Phenonomy
3.2.7 Isonomy
3.2.8 Towards a Multicentric Society
3.2.9 Toward a New Science of Organizations
3.3 Organizing Solidarity Through the Search for Pluralism
3.3.1 The Convergence of the Conceptual Frameworks of Polanyi and Guerreiro Ramos
3.3.2 The Research Perspectives Offered by This Convergence
References
4: (Re)Solidarizing Organizations
4.1 Through the Search for Democratic Governance
4.1.1 The Governance of Nonprofit Organizations and Associations
4.1.2 Multi-stakeholder Governance
4.1.3 Inclusive Governance
4.1.4 Democratic Governance
4.2 Networking on the Territory
4.2.1 Alliances and Groupings
4.2.2 Solidarity-Based Territorial Development and Related Public Policies
Thinking Differently to Conceive a Solidarity Management of Territorial Development
How to Redefine the Role and Meaning of the Economy in Territorial Management?
Territorial Management and Plural Economy
Draft Policy of Solidarity Management of the Territories
4.3 By Reconciling the Economic and the Social
4.3.1 Reconciling the Economic and the Social: A Polanyian Interpretation
4.3.2 Proposal of an Analytical Grid
4.3.3 The Relationship Between the Economy and the Social in Social Business
4.3.4 The Relationship Between the Economy and the Social in the Third Sector
4.3.5 The Relationship Between the Economy and the Social in the Social Economy
4.3.6 The Relationship Between the Economy and the Social in the Solidarity Economy
4.3.7 The Conditions for Reconciliation
4.4 Reentering the Fictitious Goods
4.4.1 Cooperative Activity and Demarketing of Work
4.4.2 Social Money and Demarketing of Money
Back to the Anthropological Approach to Money
A Plurality of Currencies: Parallel, Complementary, Local, Social
What Is the Relationship Between Social, Parallel, Complementary, and Local Currencies?
Social Currencies and BCD in Brazil
The Territorial Embedding of BCDs
From Social Currencies to Electronic Social Currencies
4.4.3 Solidarity Incubator and Demarketing of Nature
Fundamental Differences: From the Object to the Incubation Method
From the Incubation of Initiatives to the Incubation of Territories
An Emblematic Example: Matarandiba
4.5 Through Social Innovation
4.5.1 Technological Innovation and Social Innovation: Genealogy of a Concept
4.5.2 Understanding Innovation as Social Innovation
4.5.3 From the Trivialization of Social Innovation to Its Revival
4.5.4 On the Relationship Between Science, Technology, and Innovation
4.5.5 Characteristics of Innovation in the Solidarity Economy
References
5: In Search of Another Type of Management
5.1 The Brazilian School of Gestão Social
5.1.1 The Gestão Social and the Public Space
5.1.2 The Gestão Social and the Public Action
5.1.3 The Gestão Social and the Governance
5.2 Management and Governance of the Commons
5.2.1 Third Sector and Shared Resources
5.2.2 Social Economy and Common Property Regime
5.2.3 Solidarity Economy and the New Commons
5.2.4 Toward a Pluralist Synthesis
5.3 Epistemology and Methodologies for a Different Management
5.3.1 Epistemology for the Other Management
5.3.2 The Contribution of Anthropology to the Other Management
5.3.3 Ethno-accounting
5.3.4 The Instruments and Tools of Alternative Management
5.3.5 Another Idea of Action: Toward a Pragmatic Approach to Management
5.3.6 Perspectives for the Other Management
References
6: Managing for Solidarity, Sustainability, and the Commons
References
Bibliography
Index