Social Enterprises as Agents of Social Justice: A Rawlsian Perspective on Institutional Capacity

IF 4.9 1区管理学 Q1 MANAGEMENT

Organization Studies Pub Date : 2024-05-31 DOI:10.1177/01708406241261435

Theodore M. Lechterman, Johanna Mair

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Abstract

Many scholars of organizations see social enterprise as a promising approach to advancing social justice but neglect to scrutinize the normative foundations and limitations of this optimism. This article draws on Rawlsian political philosophy to investigate whether and how social enterprises can support social justice. We propose that this perspective assigns organizations a duty to foster institutional capacity, a concept we define and elaborate. We investigate how this duty might apply specifically to social enterprises, given their characteristic features. We theorize six different mechanisms through which social enterprises might successfully discharge this duty. These results affirm the value of conversation between organizational studies and political philosophy and shed new light on debates regarding social enterprise, institutional theory, and several other topics.

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Organization Studies MANAGEMENT-

CiteScore

11.50

自引率

16.70%

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