Chowdhury, Rashedur (2021) Self-Representation of Marginalized Groups: A New Way of Thinking through W. E. B. Du Bois. Business Ethics Quarterly, 31 (4). pp. 524-548. DOI https://doi.org/10.1017/beq.2021.5
Chowdhury, Rashedur (2021) Self-Representation of Marginalized Groups: A New Way of Thinking through W. E. B. Du Bois. Business Ethics Quarterly, 31 (4). pp. 524-548. DOI https://doi.org/10.1017/beq.2021.5
Chowdhury, Rashedur (2021) Self-Representation of Marginalized Groups: A New Way of Thinking through W. E. B. Du Bois. Business Ethics Quarterly, 31 (4). pp. 524-548. DOI https://doi.org/10.1017/beq.2021.5
Abstract
I address an interesting puzzle of how marginalized groups gain self-representation and influence firms’ strategies. Accordingly, I examine the case of access to low-cost HIV/AIDS drugs in South Africa by integrating W. E. B. Du Bois’s work into stakeholder theory. Du Bois’s scholarly work, most notably his founding contribution to Black scholarship, has profound significance in the humanities and social sciences disciplines and vast potential to inspire a new way of thinking and doing research in the management and organization fields, including business ethics research. By drawing on Du Bois’s works, I argue that through reconstruction of their selves—knowing their souls—marginalized groups know their capabilities better, enabling them to overcome their political and strategic limitations and ensure their true self-representation. They are also empowered to use political imagination and strategies of resistance against more powerful opponents. This influences powerful actors to accept the demands of marginalized groups.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | stakeholder theory; Black scholarship; self-consciousness; social movements and resistance; marginalized stakeholders |
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences Faculty of Social Sciences > Essex Business School |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 31 Jan 2023 17:23 |
Last Modified: | 16 May 2024 21:24 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/34749 |
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