Abstract
Within this paper, we adopt a qualitative process approach to explore how ethical judgments are influenced by spatio-cultural meanings applied to social entrepreneurship in the context of Mozambique. We analyse how such ethical judgments emerged using data gathered over a 4 year period in Maputo. Our findings illustrate three modes used to inform ethical judgments: embracing, rejecting and integrating. These describe how ethical judgments transpire as participants evaluate social entrepreneurship drawing upon related global normative meanings and those embedded within the local context. This analysis offers a critical contribution regarding how ethical judgments regarding social entrepreneurship evolve from negotiation and interaction within a context of multiple spatio-cultural meanings.
Highlights
As Sparks and Pan (2010) note, it is difficult to define what constitutes an ethical judgment; this presents a challenge to those attempting to analyse and investigate this issue
We develop a conceptual framework to study the influence of spatio-cultural meanings on ethical judgments by first; drawing upon the onto-epistemology of process theory (Tsoukas and Chia 2002; Langley and Tsoukas 2016) to study how ethical decisions are constructed within the moral texture of practice (Tsoukas 2018)
We suggest that the ethical content, used to recognise what is good or acceptable (Sayer 2011) and deontological evaluations used to reduce cognitive burden (Sparks and Pan 2010) are both influenced by the degree to which language used in interactions is connected to local and/or globalised spatiocultural meanings
Summary
As Sparks and Pan (2010) note, it is difficult to define what constitutes an ethical judgment; this presents a challenge to those attempting to analyse and investigate this issue. How ‘deontological evaluations’ are used as individuals draw upon laws, rules, codes and norms to reduce the cognitive burden involved in ethical judgments. Both of these areas draw upon notions of context and how it informs the processes that produce ethical judgments. To contribute to this emerging debate, we explore how ethical judgments regarding social entrepreneurship (SE) are influenced by spatiocultural meanings within the context of Maputo, the capital city of Mozambique
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