TY - JOUR
T1 - Philanthropy and the Making of a New Moral Order
T2 - A History of Developing Community
AU - Kumar, Arun
N1 - Funding Information:
India formally launched a large-scale community development programme in 1952 (see Thorner, for an early history of the programme). Initially launched on a pilot basis in Etawah district in Uttar Pradesh, it was soon extended to 410,000 villages across the whole country (Sackley, ). The programme found ready support from the Ford Foundation, which ostensibly supported the programme’s fundamental and mutual reinforcing values of democracy, development, and self-help (Staples, ). Even as the Ford Foundation funded the involvement of US technical experts, especially in the areas of scientific agriculture, it is worth bearing in mind that US interest in the programme were shaped by contemporary Cold War geo-politics, whose central actors believed that the war between capitalism and communism will be won by those that deliver the “greatest benefits to the peoples of the world” (Ekbladh, , p. 102; also see Sackley, ; Sunil, ).
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PY - 2022/5
Y1 - 2022/5
N2 - Community development, or the socio-economic transformation of local communities, has been a significant focus of organizational ethics. Such community development programmes—whether led by state, civil society, or businesses—are animated by modernization and have involved, I argue, the production of a new moral order. As part of which, communities were imagined in particular ways, historically. Drawing on a periodization of history of philanthropy of the Tata Group (India’s leading multinational conglomerate) from the 1860s onwards, I outline the four stages involved in the production of this new moral order—each with a distinct formulation of community—as part of India’s development. The shifts in imaginaries of community, I conclude, were justified and legitimized by the elites as part of the wider nation-building efforts.
AB - Community development, or the socio-economic transformation of local communities, has been a significant focus of organizational ethics. Such community development programmes—whether led by state, civil society, or businesses—are animated by modernization and have involved, I argue, the production of a new moral order. As part of which, communities were imagined in particular ways, historically. Drawing on a periodization of history of philanthropy of the Tata Group (India’s leading multinational conglomerate) from the 1860s onwards, I outline the four stages involved in the production of this new moral order—each with a distinct formulation of community—as part of India’s development. The shifts in imaginaries of community, I conclude, were justified and legitimized by the elites as part of the wider nation-building efforts.
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U2 - 10.1007/s10551-022-05094-1
DO - 10.1007/s10551-022-05094-1
M3 - Article
SN - 0167-4544
VL - 177
SP - 729
EP - 741
JO - JOURNAL OF BUSINESS ETHICS
JF - JOURNAL OF BUSINESS ETHICS
IS - 4
ER -
