How Does Triple Bottom Line Management Affect Human Behavior?

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1 Triple Bottom Line Management Practices in Co-ops Keith Taylor, PhD Candidate, University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign

2 Overview The corporate economy Can we govern ourselves? Triple Bottom Line & Cooperatives

3 Why Are You Interested In This Topic?

4 Corporate Behavior Pros: What are the standard features of a modern day corporation?

5 Problems Corporate Behavior

6 Pro-Corporate Public Policy Problem: People Need Jobs Lack of leadership Problem of idle hands Limited entrepreneurial skills Policy Empower the JOB CREATORS! Those poor folks can work for us!

7 Pro-Corporate Public Policy Job Creators to the rescue! External aid to local populations Echoes of William Rostow s Stages of [Economic] Growth Traditional society Preconditions for take-off Take-off Drive to maturity Age of High mass consumption

Stages of [Economic] Growth Traditional society Preconditions

8 The Natural State of Humanity

9 The Natural State of Humanity

10 The Natural State of Humanity

11 The Natural State of Humanity

12 The Corporatist Economic Vision Where does this popular line of thinking get us? Are we treating people like property? When this is public policy, how does this impact human behavior? What does this do to our community? Do we want to live in such a society?

When this is public policy, how does this impact human behavior?

13 The Corporatist Economic Vision The CEO of BP? The Democrats? Wal-Mart s Director of Corporate Social Responsibility? The Republicans?

14 The Wisdom of the Classics All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind. -Adam Smith

15 Governing Ourselves

16 Governing Ourselves

17 The Triple Bottom Line Profits People Planet to engage in economic, social and environmental practices that achieve a sustainable, yet profitable, business. Looking from the outside, it can seem that the commitments to environment, society and growth can be in conflict with one another. But rather than imposing restrictions on our business, looking through the lens of sustainability allows us to fire on many cylinders: conserving resources (both natural and financial), steadily expanding our business year after year through the combined contributions of an engaged staff, and reinvesting our company s earnings in local economies and organizations -

But rather than imposing restrictions on our business, looking through the lens of sustainability allows us to fire on many cylinders: conserving resources (both natural and

18 The Triple Bottom Line Institutional design matters! Build self-reliant workforce The stronger the individual, the stronger the group Cannot spare the individual the trouble of thinking and the pain of living Tocqueville

individual, the stronger the group Cannot spare the

19 The Triple Bottom Line Institutional design matters! Incubate democratic principles Meaningful participation generates Shared knowledge A sense of shared decision-making Inclusivity or belonging Community concern» Environmental ethos TBL makes for a dynamic bottom line

Shared knowledge A sense of shared decision-making Inclusivity or

20 The Triple Bottom Line How Do We Do Social Change Through TBL? Cooperatives! Capacity of the co-operative model A democratic enterprise owned by those who use it Mondragon in Spain» $24 billion/yr in revenue» 100k+ worker-owned» Grocery to microchips Ostrom and Irrigation in India

Capacity of the co-operative model A democratic enterprise owned by

21 Governing Ourselves Co-operatives in the USA 30k cooperatives $600 billion/yr in revenue 150 million Americans are member-owners of cooperatives Agrifoods / Energy / Finance / Utilities / Retail [Cooperatives and TBL = Force Multiplier]

22 Governing Ourselves The Co-operatives principles Open membership Democratic control Member economic participation Independence Education Cooperation among cooperatives Concern for community The Triple Bottom Line People Profit Planet

23 The Job Creator Mentality

24 An ACTUAL Vision For Civil Society? Where does this line of thinking get us? What are the implications for human development? When this is public policy, how does this impact human behavior? Do we want to live in such a society?

25 An ACTUAL Vision For Democracy? Lessons We do have options Not destined to be dependent Collective action trumps patriarchy TBL builds capacity through democracy but democracy ain t easy

26 Thank you Questions?

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