The chapter on "Corporate Social Responsibility" in Transforming the Legacy, Vol. II (2009) provides a four-step methodology (via juxtaposing the social process and corporate process triangles) for performing a CSR corporate audit, which any company could use to align its operations more effectively with country social needs/issues.
Working with a representative group of company personnel via a once-a-week workshop over a 2-3 month period, I think anyone trained in ICA workshop methods could design and facilitate a company CSR audit and assist the company to better align the dynamics of its operations, so as to generate positive effects on the immediate community and society-at-large without substantial costs. For instance, employing and training local talent and helping to organize and work with local organizations on various issues can be of great value to a community and its environment. Clancy
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Subject: Re: Question about the social process triangles . . .
Hello Jim.
Have this friend look for Clancy Mann's book, Borderless Business:
Managing the Far-Flung Enterprise (Mann & Goetz, Westport, Conn., Praeger Publishing, 2006) chapter 7 in which he lays out the Social Process Triangle as a basis for Managing Country Risk. Clancy's chapter in Bending History II is also a good "promotion of its use."
I currently teach a graduate business course through University of Maryland University College in which the SPT is presented and used as a basic method for analyzing a country. You could say that I use it at least weekly, and have for the past 10 years. Roughly 350 students have taken the course and they generally love it as a comprehensive tool for analyzing a country's business environment. It's far better than Porter's Diamond, which is the standard business method for the purpose.
John
At 08:10 PM 11/3/2012, James Wiegel wrote:
>I got this question from a fellow I know who is intrigued with the
>Social Process triangles. Any responses??
>
>He said: I think there are very few people who currently care about
>the Social Process Triangle as a tool to be used for social
>transformation. Can you point me to someone is promotes it's use,
>trains others on at least an biannual basis using it, or has tried to
>implement it in a recognizable or tangible manner other than the
>Jenkins? Short mentions in books on other topics is, for my purposes,
>great, but is there anyone you know using it daily, weekly, or monthly
>to train or manage something or anything?
>
>Jim Wiegel
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