Resources

Wainstall Partnership’s list of blog postings, presentations, research and other resources are listed below under the relevant categories:

Advisory and Research

  • Social Responsibility is Free
    It’s easy to say that organizations should behave ‘properly’, and in a socially responsible manner. But why should they? How does social responsibility fit with a capitalist ethos? Can organizations, small and large, ‘do well, by doing good’?
  • Emergent strategy
    It has often been said that a business without strategy is a business without direction. But exactly how important is clear strategic focus for today’s organizations? How have strategies had to adapt to today’s fast moving, dynamic and challenging business environment?

Anglo-China Publishing

  • Hofstede and National Culture: a guest viewpoint by Charles Hampden-Turner
    A Dutch colleague of ours, Geert Hofstede, measures national cultures. He found that China thinks very long-termbut Britain and the USA think very short-term. Likewise China is high in self-control while the UK and USA are much higher in self-indulgence, being much more related to consumption than production.
  • Guilt and Shame: a guest viewpoint by Charles Hampden-Turner
    A common distinction made by anthropologists is between a guilt culture common in the West, and a shame culture, typical of China. In a guilt culture, the individual breaks a universal law or rule, and feels guilty as a result. Any regret tends to be private and the pressures are not strong.
  • COVID-19: a guest viewpoint by Charles Hampden-Turner
    China has dealt with COVID-19 incredibly better than the USA. It has suffered 3 deaths per million while the US has suffered 424 deaths per million at the latest count, so the PRC has less than 1% of America’s death toll. Why is this, when the US had so much more warning?
  • Conflict vs Unity: a guest viewpoint by Charles Hampden-Turner
    China is the mirror image of much of the West. When we look in the mirror this switches any mark or spot on our faces from one side to the other. The West sees government as conflict leading to unity We say rude things about each other and then ask hearers to vote on who made the best argument.
  • The UN Sustainable Development Goals – how to fix the world
    The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were launched as a 15-year programme, 2016 – 2030, to try to mobilise individuals, businesses and governments to fix some of the world’s most pressing issues – including climate change, urbanization, poverty, hunger, education.
  • Belt and Road – an invitation for authors
    The Belt and Road initiative, (yi dai yi lu, One Belt One Road) has been called a ‘21st century Silk Road’, connecting Asia, Africa and Europe. Championed by Chinese President Xi Jinping, the initiative is expected to exceed $1 trillion in construction and contracts alone, and it has helped China to become the world’s largest lender of development finance, surpassing the World Bank in 2019.
  • Anglo China Publishing sign a partnership agreement with China National Publishing Import Export Corporation (CNPIEC)
    Anglo China Publishing (ACP), the publishing division of Wainstalls Holdings in the UK, have concluded a distribution agreement with the state-owned publisher and distributor CNPIEC.

Community Development and Community Asset Transfer

  • Community Asset Transfer in England: A summary of findings and conclusions
    This research was undertaken towards a PhD at the University of Manchester. It aimed to establish whether Community Asset Transfer (CAT) could work as a tool for the empowerment of local communities by enabling them to provide facilities and services, on a neighbourhood level, that local authorities and other official bodies were unable to offer.
  • Community Asset Transfer in England 2010 to 2018 – enabling innovation for positive social change or perpetuating entrenched social inequalities?
    This research sets out to evaluate whether Community Asset Transfer (CAT), a mechanism for disposing of public property assets by selling, leasing or giving them to community organisations at less than market value, has any effect in reducing place-based inequalities. The use of CATs by local authorities has increased since the passing of the Localism Act in 2011 and they are portrayed as forming part of the localism agenda adopted by the British Coalition government at that time. Given the rhetoric of community empowerment surrounding this agenda, it is considered legitimate to evaluate asset transfers in these terms.

Learning & Development

Sustainability, PRME and the United Nations Global Compact

  • The UN Sustainable Development Goals – how to fix the world
    The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were launched as a 15-year programme, 2016 – 2030, to try to mobilise individuals, businesses and governments to fix some of the world’s most pressing issues – including climate change, urbanization, poverty, hunger, education.
  • Social Responsibility is Free
    It’s easy to say that organizations should behave ‘properly’, and in a socially responsible manner. But why should they? How does social responsibility fit with a capitalist ethos? Can organizations, small and large, ‘do well, by doing good’?
  • Sustainability, PRME and the United Nations Global Compact
    What it is, why it’s valuable, how to register, and how to stay registered.

Other Resources