Disability Management and ‘Glocalization’ for an Inclusive Society

Many Nations recently recorded two new phenomena which must be studied in sociology and economics: the glocalization of society and economy and the increase of people with disabilities who require more rights, especially an active role in economy. The ‘glocal’ model mediates characteristics of globalization with those of more deep rooted localism, seems to be flourishing. Governed by its own principles, it is radically changing the logics of social life and business management. Evaluating people with disabilities is not easy, considering that the concept of disability includes a variety of aspects that are differently considered in various countries. Approximately, people with disabilities are about 650 million in the world, 10% of the population, in Europe about 80 million, around 37 in the European Union. Disabled people have developed a common consciousness and rightly demand that their rights of people are respected, even in production processes. This paper wants to answer some of main questions: may the economic and social model defined ‘glocalized’, encourage the disabled people engagement in the economy and may contribute to build participatory and inclusive society? What management models can be used to encourage disabled people acceptance? This objective will be achieved by studing some theoretical considerations, based on literature review conceptualization, and by analyzing some case studies. This paper, therefore, does not propose the results of a specific quantitative or qualitative research, but wants to propose a number of critical considerations taking into accout the latest developments, described by the best international bibliography.