Philanthropy and the Making of a New Moral Order: A History of Developing Community

Arun Kumar

doi:10.1007/s10551-022-05094-1

Philanthropy and the Making of a New Moral Order: A History of Developing Community

Arun Kumar

The York Management School

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Abstract

Community development, or the socio-economic transformations of local communities, has been a significant focus of organizational ethics. As part of development, community development programmes—whether led by state, civil society, or businesses—are animated by modernization. Building on extant criticisms of development as modernization, I present an ethics of modernization in this article, which involved the production of a new moral order as part of which communities were imagined in particular ways. 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 as part of India’s development. The shifts in imaginaries of community, I conclude, were justified and legitimized as part of the wider nation-building efforts.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	729–741
Journal	Journal of Business Ethics
Volume	177
Early online date	7 Apr 2022
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-022-05094-1
Publication status	Published - May 2022

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