Faith-Based Socially Responsible Enterprises: Selected Philippine Cases

Faith-based organizations (FBOs) have long played a role in international development and are increasingly involved in sustainability initiatives. Since they are motivated by a distinctive set of values, have particular modes of operation and governance, and hold a unique place within communities and the larger society, these organizations are poised to be distinctively successful and sustainable. In the case of the Philippines, the situation is unique in the sense that there are a large number of Christian business leaders and entrepreneurs who put their faith “to the plow.” Based on a review of the literature on faith-based social enterprises as well as on an in-depth descriptive analysis of three sample ventures from the Philippines, this study proposes a descriptive framework for their success a

Sustainable Entrepreneurship in Asia: A Proposed Theoretical Framework Based on Literature Review

Entrepreneurship is increasingly being recognized as a significant conduit for bringing about a transformation towards sustainable products and processes. Emerging literature on ethical entrepreneurship has developed a new model of entrepreneurship as a calling to endow resources with new value; it is the ethical aspect that would make such a construct authentic sustainable entrepreneurship. One of the first steps in entrepreneurial training and maturity in the area of sustainability is to develop models for sustainability communication and reporting. This article presents a revised assessment model for sustainable entrepreneurship in Asia, which consists of five domains, namely: economic, social, ecological, cultural, and ethical. The insistence on the inclusion of ethics is motivated by the fact that it is the obligation of businesses to be accountable for their environment and for their stakeholders in such a way that ethics forms one of the legs on which entrepreneurship, if it is to be sustainable, stands

Pace Digital Commons in the Open Frontiers

...beyond showcasing faculty and student works, the repository, popularly referred to as the Digital Commons, really is a tool to preserve in digital format, the various digital artifacts that are being produced nowadays in many university campuses. Many of these digital materials are being produced with no standardized way of compiling, preserving, and indexing them. At times they are produced and remain undiscovered because they remain in a sort of digital flotsam due to lack of a proper venue where they can be highlighted, or where, in the company of similar works, they can be made to appeal to a bigger audience. In most cases, there are disparate departmental sites where a given department may have a quonset area where faculty or student publications are listed and accessible digitally but it is often buried several layers below the surface of a departmental or institutional website. These are then institutional resources that sometimes remain undiscovered, or get bypassed by researchers and yet, local and native resources as they are, they have values that go beyond what is available generally in libraries or university bookstores. In fact, as institutional resources, they are paramount sources of information from local experts who can easily be reached, communicated with and consulted personally for follow-up research. They are the intellectual, sometimes artistic, products of local faculty, resident specialists, or the university students themselves for that matter. It used to be that they were not also readily available outside of the immediate university community where some counterpart printed copies of their work may probably be languishing, undiscovered, in some shelves in the library

Sustainable Entrepreneurship in Asia: A Proposed Theoretical Framework Based on Literature Review

Entrepreneurship is increasingly being recognized as a significant conduit for bringing about a transformation towards sustainable products and processes. Emerging literature on ethical entrepreneurship has developed a new model of entrepreneurship as a calling to endow resources with new value; it is the ethical aspect that would make such a construct authentic sustainable entrepreneurship. One of the first steps in entrepreneurial training and maturity in the area of sustainability is to develop models for sustainability communication and reporting. This article presents a revised assessment model for sustainable entrepreneurship in Asia, which consists of five domains, namely: economic, social, ecological, cultural, and ethical. The insistence on the inclusion of ethics is motivated by the fact that it is the obligation of businesses to be accountable for their environment and for their stakeholders in such a way that ethics forms one of the legs on which entrepreneurship, if it is to be sustainable, stands

The Work of Memory: Justice for the Indonesian Genocide of 1965-1966

HonorsInternational StudiesUniversity of Michiganhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/162608/1/cracelis.pd

Faith-Based Socially Responsible Enterprises: Selected Philippine Cases

Faith-based organizations (FBOs) have long played a role in international development and are increasingly involved in sustainability initiatives. Since they are motivated by a distinctive set of values, have particular modes of operation and governance, and hold a unique place within communities and the larger society, these organizations are poised to be distinctively successful and sustainable. In the case of the Philippines, the situation is unique in the sense that there are a large number of Christian business leaders and entrepreneurs who put their faith “to the plow.” Based on a review of the literature on faith-based social enterprises as well as on an in-depth descriptive analysis of three sample ventures from the Philippines, this study proposes a descriptive framework for their success and sustainability which consists primarily of two elements: a) Christian social capital and b) spiritual leadership

The Business Leader\u27s Vocation to Social Purpose and Sustainability

The document “The Vocation of the Business Leader: A Reflection” (VBL) facilitates the understanding of the Christian leader’s role in these times characterized by serious economic disturbances and growing inequality. VBL points to new movements and programs that have emerged, such as economy of solidarity initiatives, which are examples of economic activity marked by gratuitousness and communion. We seek to integrate the leadership requirements of solidarity economy enterprises with those based on Catholic Social Thought (CST) and the VBL to come up with a more complete set of factors for a construct that can be called “Christian business leadership.” This paper has found that the Christian business leader can add participation and cooperation, as well as a sharp focus on sustainability, to his or her leadership arsenal. The business leader should strive, above all, for personal sustainability which requires, among others, constant reflective work and the exercise of important moral virtues

Analysis of Urbanization and Climate Change Effects on Community Resilience in the Rio Grande Valley, South Texas

Disruptive development events have tested and will continue to test community resilience as people work to balance healthy living, economic growth, and environmental quality. Aspects of urbanization, if not designed and guided by healthy living strategies, convert natural areas into built environments, thus reducing the diversity of plant and animal species that are the foundation of resilience in communities. In this study, we attempted to answer the following question: What are the most effective ways to ensure that ongoing urbanization and climate change do not negatively affect ecological services and community resilience in the Rio Grande Valley (RGV)? The region is experiencing a high urban growth rate and is also one of the poorest regions in Texas. Thus, it has an inadequate capacity to prevent or mitigate climate change-related threats and take advantage of opportunities associated with urbanization. Using qualitative analysis, we consulted existing literature to identify relevant leverage points that can help foster regional resilience capacity. The findings show that there are very strong leverage points that can produce cumulative desired resilience outcomes, but these have not been incorporated into policy and natural systems in the RGV

Civic agriculture in review: Then, now, and future directions

Civic agriculture, a term first coined by rural sociologist Thomas Lyson, refers to forms of agriculture that occur on a local level, from production to consumption, and are linked to a community\u27s social and economic development. Sixteen years since its original articulation, the term civic agriculture has taken on greater significance in research, political activism, and community organizing. Grown from the roots of civic community theory, civic agriculture functions as a new branch of civic community theory that is ripe for theorization. In revisiting the foundations of the term, this review paper seeks to consolidate current and future research in the field of civic agriculture with a focus on its link to social welfare. This begins by reviewing the foundations of civic community theory and discussing how they influence research related to civic agriculture. As we report in this paper, there remain considerable gaps in understanding of how civic agriculture can be fomented by-or is related to-indicators such as demographics, concentration of power, community cohesion, and civic engagement. Consequently, the assumed links between local food systems and social welfare must continue to be studied to determine correlation and causality. This understanding is particularly important during this time of global pandemic, when the flaws and inequities of global supply chains are exposed and where, in many cases, civic agriculture met the increasing interest in local food. The COVID-19 pandemic has amply demonstrated the fragility and instability of global food supply chains, making the need for local food systems more significant and more relevant to communities across the world

Attraction, Repellence, and Predation: Role of Companion Plants in Regulating Myzus persicae (Sulzer) (Hemiptera: Aphidae) in Organic Kale Systems of South Texas

Annual outbreaks of green peach aphid, Myzus persicae (Sulzer), limit commercial production of brassica crops, especially in organic systems in subtropical areas such as South Texas. We assessed the influence of companion plants that emit attractant, repellent, and natural enemy-attractant stimuli (i.e., insectary plants) on abundance of green peach aphid in organic kale (Brassica oleracaea L. var. acephala) fields in South Texas. We also monitored the assemblage of arthropod predators and parasitoids on kale and evaluated the response of numerically dominant species to companion plants. Indian mustard (Brassica juncea (L.) Vassiliĭ Matveievitch Czernajew; attractant), dill (Anethum graveolens L.; repellent), fennel (Foeniculum vulgare Mill.; repellent), and buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum Moench; insectary) were interplanted in 0.4-ha fields of organic kale varieties ‘Lacinato’ and ‘Vates’. Manual, sticky-trap, and pitfall sampling were used to repeatedly assess green peach aphids and arthropod natural enemies on kale immediately neighboring test companion plants. Numerically dominant (more than 60% of all individuals) natural enemies were Pterostichus sp. in pitfall samples, and larval and adult convergent lady beetle, Hippodamia convergens (Guérin-Méneville), in manual, sticky trap, and pitfall samples. The presence of nearby attractant, repellent, insectary plants did not significantly alter abundance of green peach aphid or numerically dominant natural enemy species on kale plants. Our findings might indicate limited potential of companion plants in regulating aphids in South Texas, but we make recommendations for future research that considers spatial relationships between crops and companion plants and effects on aphids and natural enemies