Social Enterprise and Re-Civilization of Human Endeavors:Resocializing the Market Metaphor or Encroaching Colonization of the Lifeworld?
Year: 2005
Type: article
Abstract: An implicit normalization of the capitalist market model-in both the facilitation of human endeavors and our relationship to the earth-is clearly evident in the work of J. Gregory Dees, as it is in much organizational theory and education.To better understand the effects of this market mentality, a more critical approach to Social Entrepreneurship is required.In this article, we re-conceive Dees's characterization of Social Entrepreneurs as potentially achievable by all human beings and as a part of all their activity.This re-conception transforms what is possible in the human.We advocate for the elaboration of a relational ethic as the means to achieve Habermas' "communicative action" in order to counter the instrumental logic of "the system" that, we argue, puts all at risk.
Authors: Maria Humphries, Suzanne Grant
Institution: University of Waikato
Language: English
Subfield: Management of Technology and Innovation
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W37035728