Jeenbaeva, Jamilia I. | Kyrgyz Republic

Jamilia I. Jeenbaeva is a doctoral candidate at the School of Social Sciences of the University of Trento, Italy. She studies the transformation of organizations as a result of the use of social entrepreneurship, cooperative and sustainability principles and technologies for reporting carbon emissions in China and EU countries. This research stems from Jamilia’s earlier interest in carrying capacity of Earth and population studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science (graduated with MSc in Population and Development), and from more than seven years of working in international development projects in Kyrgyzstan on local governance, environmental conventions implementation, and youth development.

Project at IAS-STS: Organizational structures and cultures that are conducive to climate-smart consumption and footprint moderation.

This study aims to establish the factors influencing and shaping the networked structure of product and service life-cycles of different types of organizations that involves large clients and various suppliers and partner organizations. Organizations introducing certain technologies that support two objectives: 1) developing the labour force into the sustainable and climate-smart human capital through the use of these technologies; and 2) helping the management team and the labour force to manage the footprint through moderated consumption and reflexive metabolism.

While most of the literature agrees that small business and corporations have a large role to play in rectifying climate change yet the field demonstrates that the way the incentives are structured today becomes an obstacle in introducing and implementing sustainable practices. Perhaps market mechanisms cannot provide all the solutions for environmental governance dilemmas. As a counterweight social entrepreneurship and cooperative ethos become relevant to activate the resources and the energies towards measuring, managing, and reporting the footprint before the tipping point is reached in the biocapacity consumption (Global Footprint Network and the WWF).

While there is also a trend among corporations to transform by becoming more socially orientated (i.e., through introducing CSR policies and environmental accounting and reporting tools) they respond to various regulations and attempt to comply. Yet, there is a growing trend of organizations’ transforming under the pressure from inside out by entrepreneurial leaders who uphold and reflexively apply cooperative, social entrepreneurial, and green principles, attitudes, lifestyles, and actions. How exactly this voluntary “greening” is happening in the organizations?

 
Selected Publications

Jeenbaeva, J. (2008) Intersectoral Policy Making In Creating the New Middle Class: A Case Study of Internal Migrants of Bishkek Engaged in Informal Sector; Kyrgyzstan Today: Policy Briefs on Civil Society, Migration, Islam, and Corruption, Social Research Center (SRC) – AUCA, Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic, November 2008

Jeenbaeva, J (2005a) Interregional Alliances - AGOCA: Bottom-up approaches to Village Development in Central Asia, Jeenbaeva J., Kasymov U., Imhof R. June 2005, Aga Khan International Conference Papers, Dushanbe, Tajikistan

Jeenbaeva, J (2005b) Cross-sectional Analysis of the Key National Stakeholders in the Implementation of the 3 Global Environmental Conventions, January 2005, Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic. UNDP/GEF funded research of the national capacity for the implementation of the 3 global environmental conventions in the Kyrgyz Republic.