Resumen de Parsing Dignity for Organizations
This chapter addresses the question: What form of business enterprise promotes human dignity best? A four-step analysis is used to answer this question. Since dignity can be understood in multiple ways, the first step considers diverse sources of reflection about dignity: from propositional (scientific) knowledge to personal individual experience, presentational knowledge (art), and practical knowledge. The second step analyses how these different kinds of knowing are reflected in several approaches to dignity found in the business literature. The presented approaches are examined in the third step, resulting in ten elements of dignity necessary to scrutinize different forms of enterprise. Lastly, we explore how family businesses, limited liability companies (LLCs), public companies, and cooperatives meet the dignity criteria when it comes to governance and decision-making in organizations more broadly.
