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Empowering the Other in a Globalizing World by Targeting Humanistic Aims of Creativity, Work and Sustainable Community via Pedagogies in Action

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Humanistic Perspectives on International Business and Management

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How does one empower “the Other” in an era of globalization? Specifically, how does one empower the Other in the process of negotiating new business, or continuing established commerce while respecting and fostering the culture, dignity and well-being of the Other? Answering the question of how one empowers the Other requires specific humanistic aims leading to transformational results via three interrelated practices adapted from Volf and Bass (2002):

  • A deep comprehension of the Others’ fundamental human needs.

  • Continuous socially improvising negotiations.

  • Counter-intuitive and inefficient risk-taking, at odds with conventional short-term market imperatives.

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Mesa, W., Usrey, K.B. (2014). Empowering the Other in a Globalizing World by Targeting Humanistic Aims of Creativity, Work and Sustainable Community via Pedagogies in Action. In: Lupton, N.C., Pirson, M. (eds) Humanistic Perspectives on International Business and Management. Humanism in Business Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137471628_8

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