Critical Analysis of Organizations Driving Positive Social Change

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Critical Analysis
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1CRITICAL ANALYSIS
Article- Organizations Driving Positive Social Change: A Review and an Integrative
Framework of Change Processes
Rationale and Overview:
The rationale of choosing this article is to re-explore the topic of how the market based
organizations can drive the positive social change (PSC). It has been found that the importance
of this topic is growing rapidly and this particular paper demonstrates the way the organizations
are related to the society. The article integrates the research on certain projects which stimulates
the positive social change. The article further elaborates the positive social change as a
transformational process in order to advance the well-being of the society. The article of
Stephan et al(2016) fragments the essential concerns at every level of the article. The article is a
well document that clarifies the nature of PSC as a process and further develop an integrative
framework which specifies two different strategies of PSC. The study outlines the opportunities
for the future research and also draws a conceptual framework in order to differentiate between
the deep –level and surface level strategies. The findings of the study are reliable as it has a
concrete base for the integration and advancement of the knowledge on the corporate social
responsibility, social entrepreneurship and many others.
Critical evaluation of the arguments:
The existing literature regarding organizations driving positive social change suggests
that the societies are constantly facing growing challenges in certain areas such as education,
public health, social inequality and the environmental pollution. The market based organizations
play an important role while addressing such issues. There are few popular concepts related to
PSC such as “the shared value”, “inclusive growth”, “base of the pyramid” and others. Most of