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\"Since the earliest development of states, groups of people escaped or were exiled. As capitalism developed, people tried to escape capitalist constraints connected with state control. This powerful book gives voice to three communities living at the edges of capitalism: Cossacks on the Don River in Russia; Zapatistas in Chiapas, Mexico; and prisoners in long-term isolation since the 1970s. Inspired by their experiences visiting Cossacks, living with the Zapatistas, and developing connections and relationships with prisoners and ex-prisoners, Andrej Grubacic and Denis O'Hearn present a uniquely sweeping, historical, and systematic study of exilic communities engaged in mutual aid. Following the tradition of Peter Kropotkin, Pierre Clastres, James Scott, Fernand Braudel and Imanuel Wallerstein, this study examines the full historical and contemporary possibilities for establishing self-governing communities at the edges of the capitalist world-system, considering the historical forces that often militate against those who try to practice mutual aid in the face of state power and capitalist incursion\"--Provided by publisher.

Many U.S. corporations and the goods they produce negatively impact our society without breaking any laws. We are all too familiar with the tobacco industry's effect on public health and health care costs for smokers and nonsmokers, as well as the role of profit in the pharmaceutical industry's research priorities. It's Legal but It Ain't Right tackles these issues, plus the ethical ambiguities of legalized gambling, the firearms trade, the fast food industry, the pesticide industry, private security companies, and more. Aiming to identify industries and goods that undermine our societal values and to hold them accountable for their actions, this collection makes a valuable contribution to the ongoing discussion of ethics in our time. This accessible exploration of corporate legitimacy and crime will be important reading for advocates, journalists, students, and anyone interested in the dichotomy between law and legitimacy.

Many U.S. corporations and the goods they produce negatively impact our society without breaking any laws. We are all too familiar with the tobacco industry's effect on public health and health care costs for smokers and nonsmokers, as well as the role of profit in the pharmaceutical industry's research priorities. It's Legal but It Ain't Right tackles these issues, plus the ethical ambiguities of legalized gambling, the firearms trade, the fast food industry, the pesticide industry, private security companies, and more. Aiming to identify industries and goods that undermine our societal values and to hold them accountable for their actions, this collection makes a valuable contribution to the ongoing discussion of ethics in our time. This accessible exploration of corporate legitimacy and crime will be important reading for advocates, journalists, students, and anyone interested in the dichotomy between law and legitimacy.

Muhammad Yunus, the practical visionary who pioneered microcredit and, with his Grameen Bank, won the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize, has developed a new dimension for capitalism which he calls \"social business.\" The social business model has been adopted by corporations, entrepreneurs, and social activists across the globe. Its goal is to create self-supporting, viable commercial enterprises that generate economic growth as they produce goods and services to fulfill human needs. InBuilding Social Business, Yunus shows how social business can be put into practice and explains why it holds the potential to redeem the failed promise of free-market enterprise.

A new brand of entrepreneurs has arrived on the business scene, carrying with them a whole new set of values. They possess a sense of mission – to be socially responsible, protect the planet, and do the right thing for all of their stakeholders. Rather than focus exclusively on financial gain, they aim to achieve a balance between profits and one or more causes of their choosing. In fact, they view for-profit entrepreneurship as a vehicle for social change. The authors call these pioneers \"values-centered\" entrepreneurs. Some of the values-centered entrepreneurs have been around a few decades. In recent years, however, the numbers have proliferated and the nascent movement has started to make a true impact. These entrepreneurs’ approach to management questions our basic assumptions about how businesses should be run and what their role should be in society. Several of these entrepreneurs have attained high visibility. Yvon Chouinard of sportswear manufacturer Patagoina has been a role model for integrating environmental protection to every aspect of Patagonia’s business operation. Howard Schultz of Starbucks has been able to build one of the strongest brands in the world while being the first retailer to offer comprehensive health benefits and stock options to its part-time employees. Paul Newman, legendary actor and racecar driver as well as a leading maker of salad dressings, gives 100% of Newman’s Own brand’s profits to charity. This book explores how these highly unorthodox leaders have built their profitable and socially responsible business enterprises, and what lessons can be learned for the next generation of entrepreneurs. The authors examine a group of over 40 entrepreneurial companies and how each balanced the profit objective with social responsibility in key aspects of their business operation – from their initial company formation, through growth, to exit – to build successful triple bottom-line companies. Choi and Gray particularly focus on how these firms’ commitment to values affected their company missions, hiring and organizational policies, marketing strategies, financial practices, exit options, and giving programs, and vice versa. In some cases, the authors find that the entrepreneurs’ social objectives have actually strengthened, not weakened, their business enterprises. Based on their extensive studies of these companies, he authors have distilled a set of commonalities. The book presents ten of the most dominant and interesting of these commonalities with a focus on those policies and decisions that appeared to depart from conventional business practice. In addition to devoting chapters to each of the core principles learned from these companies, the authors also include in-depth case studies of four of the ventures featured in their study. Preface Introduction PART I: The Values Centered Entrepreneur 1. Toward a New Model of Entrepreneurship PART II: Lessons/Guidelines 2. Commit to a Purpose 3. Be Circumspect about Raising Institutional Capital 4. Hire Employees with Shared Values 5. Promote Your Company’s Values 6. Build a Strong (Value-Centered) Organizational Culture 7. Make Money, But Then Also Make Exceptions 8. Do No Harm 9. Stay With It For The Long Haul 10. Give Back a Lot (Commit to a Giving Program) 11. Be a Role Model for Others 12. Conclusion Part III: Case Studies 13. Timothy Haahs Engineering 14. Stoneyfield Farm 15. Migros 16. Chris King Precision Equipment Part IV: Appendix: Table of Socially Responsible Companies David Y Choi , Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship and an Associate Director of the Hilton Center for Entrepreneurship at Loyola Marymount University. Edmund R. Gray is Professor of Management at Loyola Marymount University.

Although sustainability efforts in business are still a work in progress, it is increasingly clear that key elements of a new generation of enterprises will be radically different from those of our contemporary modern industrial economy. The core distinctions between what currently exists and what is being created are communicated in this book through the compelling metaphor of Ants, Galileo, and Gandhi. This collection, developed from The Natural Step's conference on Sustainability and Innovation in 2002, provides radical ideas for generating a new perspective on the dynamics of business systems. \"Ants\" symbolise the lessons to be learned from nature and the dependence of individual beings on broader, complex systems. \"Galileo\" embodies brilliance in perceiving and proving that the current paradigm is flawed. 'Gandhi' exemplifies exceptional compassion in fighting for fundamental change. All of these attributes are increasingly relevant in a world where, globally, we are experiencing both a steady decline in life-supporting resources and rising demands. Recognition of these challenges is sparking innovation within the private sector where the first glimmers of systemic change can be seen. The book examines the emergence of 21st-century enterprises that recognise their reliance on broad social and ecological systems (\"ants\"), incorporate sparks of genius rooted in rigorous analyses (\"Galileo\"), and acknowledge the importance of compassion and determination within any endeavour (\"Gandhi\"). With contributions from Ray Anderson, Gretchen Daily, Karl-Henrik Rob In Ants, Galileo & Gandhi ... Sissel Waage ... and her preeminent group of contributors have carefully and persuasively found a balance capturing the essence of sustainability while at the same time identifying and assessing important lessons to be learned from their experience ... Anyone or any business seeking to begin, refine, or implement their sustainability-related business practices should have this book in their library. - Corporate Environmental Strategy Vol. 10 Issue 10, 2003 - Don Smith | | These are smart, detailed, in-the-trenches case studies of how companies align sustainability with business success, along with the scientific and societal rationale that amplify these initiatives' importance. Mainstream managers will find both guidance and inspiration. - The Green Business Letter, November 2003 Preface1. Introduction: envisioning the prototypical company of the 21st centuryRay Anderson, Interface Inc., Atlanta, GA, USAPart 1: The transition to sustainability-oriented enterprises2. Understanding nature's services to societiesGretchen Daily, Stanford University, California, USA, and Katherine Ellison, Investigative Journalist, California, USA3. Reconsidering business from a systems perspective: the paradigm shift to sustainability-oriented enterprises and financial servicesSissel Waage, The Natural Step, California, USA4. Integrating sustainability into business strategy and operations: applying The Natural Step approach and framework and backcasting from principles of sustainabilityKarl-Henrik Robèrt, Blekinge Technical University and The Natural Step, SwedenPart 2: Case studies of evolving business initiatives5. Sustainability and dematerialisation at Hewlett PackardDavid Hudson, Consultant to Hewlett Packard, USA, and Lynelle Preston, Sustainability Manager, Hewlett Packard, USA6. Engaging in change management: transformation through sustainability strategy at Norm Thompson OutfittersDerek Smith, Norm Thompson Outfitters, Oregon, USA7. Recreating natural-resource-based businesses: sustaining the land and communities in the US New NorthwestCecilia Danks, University of Vermont, USA, and Martin Goebel and Karen Steer, Sustainable Northwest, Oregon, USA8. Growing a sustainable business: establishing and financing new ecologically and socially restorative venturesMatthew A. Klein, Verdant Power, Washington, DC, USAPart 3: Case studies from the financial services sector9. Screening for sustainability: a case study of the Dow Jones Sustainability IndexAlois Flatz, SAM Sustainable Asset Management, Switzerland10. Banking on sustainability: A case study of Shorebank Enterprise PacificJennifer Sokolove, University of California at Berkeley, USAPart 4: Reporting and accountability11. Improving sustainability disclosure: the Global Reporting Initiative GuidelinesAllen L. White, Special Advisor to the Global Reporting Initiative, USAPart 5: Pathways forward to organisational and societal change12. Organisational change for sustainability within enterprises and financial servicesSissel Waage, The Natural Step, California, USA, and Juli Torok, Independent Consultant, Berkeley, California, USA13. Catalysing action and organisational change: the role of personal and group (re)vitalisation in sustainability initiativesHilary Bradbury, Case Western Reserve University, Ohio, USA14. Conclusion: a shift toward sustainability within companies and the financial services sectorSissel Waage, The Natural Step, California, USA

Ethnographic research has established the centrality of markets to Andean rural livelihoods, but understandings of fairness and different market actors' power relations in these markets are less clear. Using ten months of ethnographic research in Bolivia's Altiplano, this case study reveals strategies and moral narratives of peasant producers and market traders in an emerging pea market. While traders attempt to deceive producers, the latter have their own means of exploiting competition between traders and advancing their own moral narratives about how the market should operate. Thus, the market is an economic field and a moral one, and traders can be punished for excessively prioritizing profit maximization. The moral nature of the pea trade should be viewed not as a quirk of Andean culture but as an illustration of the embeddedness of all markets and the need for critical examination of the moral economies of market interactions across the capitalist world.

The first edition of this book looked at the emergence of 'ecopreneurs' - environmental entrepreneurs gaining competitive advantage for their firms through understanding and utilising green issues. These green entrepreneurs have led the way in enabling market forces to generate economic growth whilst protecting the environment and encouraging sustainability. This new edition continues the examination of what distinguishes these green entrepreneurs from others. It draws on a diverse range of case studies embracing examples of both successful and unsuccessful ecopreneurial ventures on at least four continents. Contributions have been updated and a number of entirely new chapters describe sustainable business projects in places ranging from the USA , India, western Europe, UK, Australia, central America and New Zealand. Making Ecopreneurs, second edition, charts recent developments and remains highly relevant to researchers in the fields of sustainable business development and entrepreneurship, to policymakers within governments and NGOs, and to those running businesses.

Provides a coherent approach to global business responsibility and ethics based on the research, theory, and practice. Incorporating numerous real world examples, this book focuses on the strategic alignment and change management process for implementing business citizenship principles and practices.