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| Title |
Gender, Power and Post-structuralism in Corporate
Citizenship. A Personal Perspective on Theory and Change |
| Author |
Coleman, G. |
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March 2002 |
| Publisher |
Greenleaf Publishing |
| Donor |
nEW Academy of Business, UK |
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Short Summary |
There has been a remarkable spread of initiatives
and standards relating to the concept of “corporate citizenship” in
recent years, both in the North and the South. Much of this activity
has focused on trying to create legislative and policy responses to
address problems of inequity and exclusion. Yet there has been little
overt discussion of power. The corporate citizenship debate has been
framed as practical, strategic or possibly ethical, but not as political.
This paper draws on theories of gender to argue that unless those
engaged in corporate citizenship pay more attention to the dynamics
of socially constructed power relations and to the ways in which their
own interventions may bring about alternatives, the potential of the
new practices of corporate citizenship to bring about social change
will be limited. Why, for example, are the voices of women so often
missing from the corporate citizenship debate? The paper appeals for
a greater degree of theoretical sophistication on the part of those
engaged in this work and suggests that debates about corporate citizenship
should increasingly and explicitly engage with questions of power,
diversity and 'voice'. |
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