Mapping Concepts and Issues in the Ethics of the Commons: Introduction to the Special Issue
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Mapping Concepts and Issues in the Ethics of the Commons: Introduction to the Special Issue Ana María Peredo1 · Helen M. Haugh2 · Marek Hudon3 · Camille Meyer4 Received: 25 May 2020 / Accepted: 16 July 2020 © Springer Nature B.V. 2020
Abstract We introduce the papers in this special issue by providing an overarching perspective on the variety in kinds of commons and the ethical issues stemming from their diversity. Despite a long history of local commons management, recent decades have witnessed a surge of scholarly interest in the concept of “the commons,” including a growing management literature. This swell was impelled especially by Garrett Hardin’s paper of 1968, and the body of work generated by Elinor Ostrom and her colleagues. However, the term itself has come to be used in a variety of ways. To contextualize its ethical dimensions, we map a number of commons-related concepts such as common-pool resources, common property regime, excludability and subtractability, common-pool resource types and commons or “commoning” as a source of production. Following a brief summary of papers in this special issue, the essay concludes with an identification of implications for research, practice and policy. Keywords Commons · Ethics · Common property regime · Common-pool resources · Collective organizing
Introduction While the literature in management and organizational studies regarding the concept of the commons is still slim, there has been a growing interest in the concept. For example, * Ana María Peredo [email protected] Helen M. Haugh [email protected] Marek Hudon [email protected] Camille Meyer [email protected] 1
Political Ecology, School of Environmental Studies, University of Victoria, P.O. Box 3060 STN CSC, Victoria, BC V8W 2Y2, Canada
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Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1AG, UK
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Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Av. F.D. Roosevelt, 42, 1050 Brussels, Belgium
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Graduate School of Business, University of Cape Town, 9 Portswood Rd, Victoria & Alfred Waterfront, Cape Town 8002, South Africa
the analysis of the tragedy of the commons and common good has been used in relation to ethical practices within corporations (Hartman 1994; Melé 2009; O’Brien 2009; Sison et al. 2012; Solomon 1994), in relation to reputation of firms (Jonsen et al. 2013) or industry sectors (Fauchart and Cowan 2014). The term has also been used by organizational scholars to address global societal challenges such as poverty and climate change (Albareda and Waddock 2018; Ansari et al. 2013; Bowen et al. 2018; Haugh 2007; Meyer 2020; Meyer and Hudon 2017; Peredo et al. 2018; Tedmanson et al. 2015). This special issue and its introduction aim to enlarge these conversations, partly by bringing discussions arising in business and management into contact with wider exchanges on the subject of commons. Particularly, our goal in this introduction is to develop a framework for engaging with discussions
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