A conceptual framework for social entrepreneurship and social innovation in Mexico
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.59057/iberoleon.20075316.201933102Keywords:
México, marco conceptual, emprendimiento social, innovación social, industria del henequénAbstract
In order for social entrepreneurship and social innovation to take off for real in Mexico, two major inhibitors on structural level needs to be addressed and eliminated/reduced. One inhibitor is material and the other is discursive in nature. The material inhibitor is the lingering power of old money, old elites, old solutions, old thinking, and old ways of organizing economic activity that still dominates economic and social life in Mexico. Inter-twinned with this material inhibitor is the discursive inhibitor; the skills of old power representatives in using “new and fresh vocabulary” to discursively obscure, blur and distort that their activities still are based on the aforementioned old power logic. The purpose of this article is to contribute to remedy the problem with the discursive inhibitor, via proposing an actionable conceptual framework for social entrepreneurs and social innovators in Mexico. If achieving some success on the discursive arenas, gains and wins therefrom can be used to take on the material inhibitor on the political-legal arenas. The henequen industry in Yucatan is used as an illustrative case to support the purpose.
Downloads
References
Alston, L., Mattiace, S., & Nonnenmacher, T. (March, 2008). Coercion, Culture and Debt Contracts: The Henequen Industry in Yucatan, Mexico, 1870-1915. National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). Working Paper No. 13852. Retrieved February 21, 2019 from https://www.nber.org/papers/w13852.pdf.
Andrews, A. P., Burgos Villanueva, R., & Millet Cámara, L. (March, 2012). The Henequen Ports of Yucatan’s Gilded Age. International Journal of Historical Archaeology, 16(1), pp. 25-46. Doi: 10.1007/s10761-012-0168-z.
Brannon, J., & Baklanoff, E. N. (1987). Agrarian Reform and Public Enterprise in Mexico: The Political Economy of Yucatan’s Henequen Industry. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press.
Can Tec, M. (2019). Fábrica lleva cinco años sin operar. Diario de Yucatán. Retrieved February 21, 2019 from https://www.yucatan.com.mx/yucatan/fabrica-lleva-cinco-anos-sin-operar.
Chamberlain, R. S. (September, 1939). Spanish Methods of Conquest and Colonization in Yucatan, 1527-1550. I. The Scientific Monthly, 49(3), pp. 227-244. Retrieved February 21, 2019 from www.jstor.org/stable/17057.
Farrow, K., Hurley, S., & Sturrock, R. (2015). Grand Alibis: How Declining Public Sector Capability Affects Services for the Disadvantaged. Sydney: Centre for Policy Development. Retrieved January 14, 2020 from https://cpd.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Grand-Alibis-Final.pdf.
García de Fuentes, A., & Morales, J. (February, 2000). Dinámica Regional de Yucatán 1980-2000. Investigaciones Geográficas, 42, pp. 157–172. Retrieved January 14, 2020 from http://www.scielo.org.mx/pdf/igeo/n42/n42a10.pdf.
Hall, D. (2014). Why Public-Private Partnership Don’t Work. The Many Advantages of the Public Alternative. London: University of Greenwich, Public Services International Research Unit. Retrieved January 14, 2020 from http://biblioteca.semarnat.gob.mx/janium/Documentos/Ciga/Libros2013/CD0029713.pdf.
Hodge, B., & Coronado, G. (July, 2006). Mexico Inc.? Discourse Analysis and the Triumph of Managerialism. Organization, 13(4), pp. 529-547. Doi: 1350508406065104
Iglesias, E. (April, 2014). Travesías del Desarrollo en Yucatan. Problemas del Desarrollo. Revista Latinoamericana de Economía, 45(177), pp. 169-192. Retrieved January 14, 2020 from https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301703614708673.
Joseph, G. M., & Wells, A. (1982). Corporate Control of a Monocrop Economy: International Harvester and Yucatan’s Henequen Industry during the Porfiriato. Latin American Research Review, 17(1), pp. 69-99. Retrieved January 14, 2020 from www.jstor.org/stable/2503029.
Lanoue, D. B. (August, 1999). A Historical Analysis of the International Business Perspectives of Mexican Industrial Groups. Journal of Management History, 5(5), pp. 252-268. Doi: 13552529910282240.
Lanoue, D. B. (December, 2001). The Role of Big Business in the Economic Integration of Latin America. International Journal of Organization Theory and Behaviour, 4, pp. 57-73. Doi: OTB-100103035.
Lubberink, R., Blok, V., van Ophem, J., van der Velde, G., & Omta, O. (December, 2018). Innovation for Society: Towards a Typology of Developing Innovations by Social Entrepreneurs. Journal of Social Entrepreneurship, 9, pp. 52-78. Doi: 19420676.2017.1410212.
Lundberg. H., & Ramírez-Pasillas, E. (2017). Contextualizing Entrepreneurship as an Antidote to Institutional Evangelizing: Diezmo and Informal Contract Commissions in Mexico. In Brundin, E., Markowska, M. & Ramírez-Pasillas, M. (Eds.), Contextualizing Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies and Developing Countries (pp. 80-91). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Lundberg, H., & Ramírez-Pasillas, M. (2020). The Other Within as Entrepreneurial Agency for Subsistence Entrepreneurs. In Ratten, V. (Ed.), Entrepreneurship and the Community. Contributions to Management Science(pp. 7-27). Cham: Springer Nature.
Lundberg, H., Ramírez-Pasillas, M., Dana, L-P., & Evansluong, Q. (2019). Social Enterprising for Immigrant Inclusion: An Organizing Context Approach. Conference Paper presented at the Organizing Migration and Integration in Contemporary Societies Conference. Gothenburg University, Sweden.
Macke, J., Rubim, J. A., Domeneghini, J., & da Silva, K. A. (February, 2018). Where do we go from Now? Research Framework for Social Entrepreneurship. Journal of Cleaner Production, 183, pp. 677-685. Doi: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.02.017.
Mair, J., Battilana, J., & Cardenas, J. (August, 2012). Organizing for Society: A Typology of Social Entrepreneuring Models. Journal of Business Ethics, 111(3), pp. 353-373. Doi: s10551-012-1414-3.
Oulhaj, L. (Ed.). (2016). Avanzar en la Inclusión Financiera. Mexico City: Universidad Iberoamericana.
Oulhaj, L., & Gallegos, X. (Coords.). (2017). Economía Social y Solidaria, Migración y Género: Hacía la Búsqueda de Alternativas de “Desarrollo”. Una Reflexión Interdisciplinaria desde México. Mexico City: Universidad Iberoamericana.
Oulhaj, L., & Lévesque, B. (Coords.). (2015). Las Finanzas Solidarias en Algunos Países de América: ¿Hacia un Sistema y un Ecosistema de Economía Social y Solidaria? Mexico City: Universidad Iberoamericana.
Peredo, A. M., & McLean, M. (July, 2006). Social Entrepreneurship: A Critical Review of the Concept. Journal of World Business, 41(1), pp. 56-65. Doi: 10.1016/j.jwb.2005.10.007.
Powell, T. G. (February, 1968). Mexican Intellectuals and the Indian Question, 1876-1911. The Hispanic American Historical Review, 48(1), pp. 19-36. Doi: 10.2307/2511398
Ramírez, L. A. (August, 1994). La Política del Desarrollo Regional en Yucatán. Descentralización Administrativa y Empresariado. Estudios Demográficos y Urbanos, 9(2), pp. 381-393. Retrieved January 14, 2020, from https://estudiosdemograficosyurbanos.colmex.mx/index.php/edu/article/view/914/907.
Ramírez-Pasillas, M., & Lundberg, H. (2019). Corporate Social Venturing: An Agenda for Researching the Social Dimension of Corporate Venturing by Family-Owned Businesses. In Saiz-Alvarez, J. M. & Palma-Ruiz, J. M. (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurial Leadership and Competitive Strategy in Family Business (pp. 173-192). Hershey: IGI Global. Doi: 978-1-5225-8012-6.
Ramírez-Pasillas, M., Lundberg, H., & Nordqvist, M. (July, 2018). Everyday Practices of Corporate Venturing. Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings,1, pp. 1-40. Doi: AMBPP.2018.18120abstract.
Ramírez-Pasillas, M., Waldkirch, M., Dana, L-P., & Lundberg, H. (2019). Mexican Spirit(s): A Study of Indigenous Family Entrepreneurship. Conference Paper presented at the International Family Enterprise Research Academy Annual Conference. Bergamo, Italy.
The World Bank Group. (2013). Corruption and PPPs: Challenges and Solutions. Washington DC: The World Bank Group. Retrieved January 14, 2020 from http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTDOII/Resources/Corruption_and_PPPs_backgrounder.pdf.
Wells, A. (May, 1982). Family Elites in a Boom-and-Bust Economy: The Molinas and Peóns of Porfirian Yucatán. The Hispanic American Historical Review, 62(2), pp. 224-253. Doi: 10.2307/2514979.
Wells, A. (May, 1992). All in the Family: Railroads and Henequen Monoculture in Porfirian Yucatán. The Hispanic American Historical Review,72(2), pp. 159-209. Doi:10.2307/2515554.
Yoder, M. S. (1993). The Latin American Plantation Economy and the World-Economy: The Case of the Yucatecan Henequen Industry. Review (Fernand Braudel Center) , 16(3), pp. 319-337. Retrieved January 20, 2020 from www.jstor.org/stable/40241261.
Zahra, S. A., Gedajlovic, E., Neubaum, D. O., & Shulman, J. M. (September, 2009). A Typology of Social Entrepreneurs: Motives, Search Processes and Ethical Challenges. Journal of Business Venturing, 24(5), pp. 519-532. Doi: j.jbusvent.2008.04.007.
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2019 Entretextos
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
