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Journal of Business Ethics
Published in: Journal of Business Ethics 4/2018

03-03-2018 | Original Paper

Made in Carcere: Integral Human Development in Extreme Conditions

Authors: Luca Mongelli, Pietro Versari, Francesco Rullani, Antonino Vaccaro

Published in: Journal of Business Ethics | Issue 4/2018

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This paper analyzes the case of Made in Carcere, an innovative social enterprise providing jobs to one of the most marginalized groups in society: convicted women. Relying on an extensive database that covers 8 years of activity, we propose a micro-level analysis of the processes adopted by Made in Carcere to foster the integral human development of convicted women, its target stakeholders. We show that this complex effort has successfully unfolded through two macro-processes: creating a safe space for experimentation and allowing convicted women to bridge their experience to the outside reality. Our work provides evidence of an organization that successfully confronts the restrictive and dehumanizing setting of prisons by means of market mechanisms that can foster convicted women’s integral human development.
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Metadata
Title
Made in Carcere: Integral Human Development in Extreme Conditions
Authors
Luca Mongelli
Pietro Versari
Francesco Rullani
Antonino Vaccaro
Publication date
03-03-2018
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Published in
Journal of Business Ethics / Issue 4/2018
Print ISSN: 0167-4544
Electronic ISSN: 1573-0697
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-018-3821-6

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