Participatory Development: An Analysis of Ostrom's Framework of Seven Design Principles in the Context of Social Enterprises in India

Dixit, Anukriti (2024). Participatory Development: An Analysis of Ostrom's Framework of Seven Design Principles in the Context of Social Enterprises in India. In: Manimala, Mathew; Thomas, Princy; Mahadev, Neetha (eds.) Business and Society: Issues and Cases in the Indian Context. Business and Society: Vol. 2 (pp. 97-114). Singapore: World Scientific 10.1142/9789811286674_0004

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Social enterprises have intense interaction with their local communities and “are explicitly committed to generating social value in perpetuity” (Katz & Page, 2010). They bring cohesiveness and trust to their host communities and they are the civil society’s way of becoming the “primary stakehold- ers” (Cornwall, 2003) in development agendas. These are the aspects of societal living that Ostrom (2008) demonstrates through her research on local self-reliance and the development of a concerned civil society, which takes initiative for the management of its own resources. The analysis done in this chapter demonstrates the interplay of the social enterprise and public policy. Ostrom’s (2008) framework of seven design principles, which provide a normative reference for local self-governance initiatives, is mapped onto four social enterprise cases, selected for their extent of community engagement and self-regulation. This chapter follows a case- based methodology, with an analysis of four diverse types of social enter- prises, within the Indian context. A discussion of the design principles, within the social enterprise framework, is followed by the analysis of these cases. Each of the enterprises has a different level and style of commu- nity engagement and we use the design principles to demonstrate the effec- tiveness of their community participation. The case analysis demonstrates a way for policymakers to integrate and support the social enterprise as a crucial part of participatory development. Moreover, it aids entrepreneurs in evaluating the degree to which their host communities are invested in a truly participatory experience.

Item Type:

Book Section (Book Chapter)

Division/Institute:

09 Interdisciplinary Units > Interdisciplinary Centre for Gender Studies (ICFG)

Graduate School:

Graduate School Gender Studies

UniBE Contributor:

Dixit, Anukriti

Subjects:

300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology

ISBN:

978-981-12-8667-4

Series:

Business and Society

Publisher:

World Scientific

Language:

English

Submitter:

Anukriti Dixit

Date Deposited:

15 Apr 2024 13:09

Last Modified:

15 Apr 2024 13:09

Publisher DOI:

10.1142/9789811286674_0004

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/195584

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