Economy of Mutuality: Equipping the Executive Mindset for Sustainable Business

Kevin Jackson

Chapter 15 in Managing Sustainable Business, 2019, pp 293-315 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Economy of mutuality provides a higher-order frame of reference for understanding what business is for and the values it presupposes and creates. This chapter equips executives and managers with a broadened perspective on business, encompassing not just market economy, but social enterprise and social economy. A spectrum of archetypes of business enterprise are considered in light of higher ends of economic life. The highest end-state of business encompassing all such archetypes, it is argued, is that of reciprocity and integral human development. The chapter concludes that, compared to market economy per se, economy of mutuality provides business executives and managers a more comprehensive conceptual framework for undertaking challenges of financial and social sustainability.

Keywords: Integral Human Development; Social Enterprise; Homo Reciprocans; Microfinance Institutions (MFIs); Social Business (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-94-024-1144-7_15

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.springer.com/9789402411447

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-024-1144-7_15

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Springer Books from Springer
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().