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Prosocial Organizing and the Distance Between Core and Community Work

  • Research on prosocial organising has made great strides in understanding how organisations foster durable social change through core work directly targeting specific beneficiaries (e.g. work integration), and also through community work to obtain the cooperation of key stakeholders. Yet, extant research tends to focus on community work that is closely related – or proximal – to core work and is thus weakly equipped to explain how seemingly unrelated, distal community work unfolds. To address this puzzle, we study an Italian work integration social enterprise that engaged in anti-Mafia work to support its core work of reintegrating people with mental health issues. We unveiled the process whereby it came to engage in this distal community work, how this work facilitated the destigmatisation of the beneficiaries and, ultimately, their reintegration in the community. We contribute to the literature on prosocial organising by providing a more complex and nuanced view of the relationship between core and community work, as well as how to manage stigma.

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Document Type:Article
Language:English
Author(s):Valeria Cavotta, Sébastien MenaORCiD
Parent Title (English):Organization Studies
Publication year:2022
Publishing Institution:Hertie School
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1177/01708406221099696
Release Date:2022/05/23
AY 21/22:AY 21/22
Licence of document (German):Metadaten / metadata
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