Institutional work - Article Susler, Lohmeyer and Ashwin we can't compete human rights
4 important questions on Institutional work - Article Susler, Lohmeyer and Ashwin we can't compete human rights
What is the key take away from the article of Schusler, Lohmeyer and Ashwin; competing human rights?
This is a multi-level, contested approach.
What is the tension described in the article competing human rights and what is the role of market-protected spaces regarding these tensions?
The role of market protected spaces is that it can resolve this tension using binding regulative spaces that enforce to prioritize responsible management. It is basically the path to institutionalize responsible management in the global economy.
The three different approaches on responding to responsible management demands discussed by Schusler, Lohmeyer and Ashwin are: prioritizing market logic, accommodating responsible management in market logic and prioritizing responsible management in market protected spaces. What's the difference between those approaches regarding;
- Discursive representation
- The firm level actions
- The field level actions
- Discursive repres; Deflecting (afketsen) responsible issues
- Firm level; baseline of CSR standards
- Field level; avoid commitments on field level
accommodating responsible management in market logic
- Discursive repres; acknowledge responsibility
- Firm level; formalizing CSR procedures
- Field level; supporting voluntary industry standards
prioritizing responsible management in market protected spaces
- Discursive repres; shaping a new meaning of responsible management
- Firm level; shaping new core business practices by aligning resp. Management demands with core business functions.
- Field level; developing a binding regulative infrastructure.
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How are the market-protected spaces constructed according to the article of Schusler et al.,?
The core mechanisms; new meaning, binding regulations and change in core business are developed.
3 kinds of institutional work:
- Restraining (ontwrichten) the market logic; disruptive
- Maintaining market protected spaces; in the face of resistance and pushback from dominant market logic.
- Infusing responsible management with non-market elements; institution creating
Consequences; resistance and pushbacks
- Suspension (opschorting) of market logic
- Prioritize responsible management logic
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