Caring for the other amidst a competitive economic environment: the case of psychosocial handicap

Yannick Fronda () and Marie-Astrid Le Theule ()
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Yannick Fronda: IMT-BS - DEFI - Département Droit, Économie et Finances - TEM - Télécom Ecole de Management - IMT - Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris] - IMT-BS - Institut Mines-Télécom Business School - IMT - Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris], CEMANTIC - Centre d'Études et de recherches en Management et TIC - TEM - Télécom Ecole de Management - IMT - Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris]
Marie-Astrid Le Theule: GREG - CRC - Groupe de recherche en économie et en gestion - Centre de recherche en comptabilité - CNAM - Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers [CNAM]

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Abstract: Purpose - Dealing with psycho‐sociological handicaps is a hidden problem of capitalism, which targets full‐employment societies. However, taking educational and social costs into account, it is easily seen that getting rid of these fragile persons is a huge waste for a society as a whole. The aim of this paper is to sketch the possibilities of integrating the work of psycho‐sociologically handicapped as a positive outcome for both economy and society.Design/methodology/approach - Drawing on the case of France, the paper points out that no easy solution exists. Integration at any price may generate huge suffering; positive discrimination raises problems of justice between employees; putting these people aside from workplaces and granting them some kind of subvention, all these "solutions" have obvious drawbacks.Findings - The paper considers the possibilities of "semi‐competitive" sectors, as they still exist in France – even tough hardly attacked by ultra‐liberal ideology – as an acceptable and balanced solution to the problem of economical and social integration of psycho‐sociological handicapped people.Originality/value - Originality comes from the crossing of psycho‐analytic, sociologic and care literatures on a matter (psychosocial handicap) that is too seldom taken into account in business and society studies.

Keywords: Mentally handicapped people; France; Social care; Social alienation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009-02-06
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Published in Society and Business Review, 2009, 4 (1), pp.69-80. ⟨10.1108/17465680910932487⟩

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DOI: 10.1108/17465680910932487

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