EGOS 2022 - Sub-theme 62: The Organization of Society: Meta-, Macro-, and Partial Organization9/21/2021 Convenors:
Nils Brunsson Uppsala University, Sweden [email protected] Héloïse Berkowitz Aix-Marseille University, France [email protected] Sanne Bor LUT University, Finland [email protected] Call for Papers There is a long and strong tradition in organization theory to study formal organizations under the explicit or implicit assumption that the phenomenon of organization is concentrated to these formal organizations, whereas their environment is not organized and therefore must be analysed by other concepts than organization. In contrast to that perspective, in this subtheme we are interested in describing and analysing all the organization that happens outside of and among formal organizations. Such organization is often needed for social systems to adapt to new challenges, though we still understand relatively little about its dynamics. We build on a definition of organization as a decided order (Ahrne & Brunsson, 2011). The emphasis on decision as the common feature of organization offers a way out of the deep existential crisis organization theory has been diagnosed with (Grothe-Hammer & Kohl, 2020). This forms the background to the suggestion to expand organization theory (Ahrne et al., 2016; Ahrne & Brunsson, 2008, 2019) by combining the classical notion of formal organization with the notions of meta-organization, partial organization, and macro-organization. Meta-organizations are formal organizations with other organizations as members, often only partially organized (Berkowitz et. al., 2020) Macro-organizations have been defined as complex, partially organized systems of a multitude of interconnected formal organizations (Brunsson et al., 2018). These concepts provide a new understanding of a broad variety of modern organizational phenomena and their manifold facets. Using them, scholars have, for instance, analysed market organization (Brunsson & Jutterström, 2018; Ossandón, 2019), the European Union (Kerwer, 2013), clusters (Lupova-Henry et al., 2021), partnerships (Cropper & Bor, 2018), transnational actors and governance (Fumasoli et al., 2018), corporate social responsibility and sustainability (Berkowitz et al., 2020; Rasche et al., 2013), social movements (Laamanen et al., 2020), or organization without actorhood (Grothe-Hammer, 2019). The purpose of this sub-theme is to investigate the pros and cons of expanding the concept of organization to areas outside and among formal organizations. We invite papers that discuss the dynamics of social collectives through the lens of meta-macro, and partial organization in order to develop these alternative approaches of organization theory. We welcome submissions on aspects of meta-organization, macro-organization or partial organization, or an integration of all three. Papers can be theoretical, empirical, or methodological and may investigate:
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Nils Brunsson is Professor of Management and affiliated with Uppsala University, Sweden, and SCORE. He is currently studying organization outside formal organizations as well as the roots and consequences of competition in social life. Nils has published 30 books, including most recently these edited volumes: “Competition. What it is and why it happens” (Oxford University Press, 2021), “Organization outside Organizations: The Abundance of Partial Organization in Social Life” (Cambridge University Press, 2019), and “Organizing and Reorganizing Markets” (Oxford University Press, 2018). Héloïse Berkowitz is a permanent researcher at CNRS (LEST, Aix-Marseille University), France. Her research deals with industry transitions to sustainability, focusing on sectoral governance and meta-organizations, in several empirical settings from natural resources to collaborative economy or ocean sustainability. Héloïse’s work has been published in ‘Academy of Management Review’, ‘Journal of Business Ethics’, and ‘European Management Review’. Sanne Bor is a post-doctoral researcher at LUT University, Finland. Her research deals with collaboration among organizations, in particular meta-organizations, in different settings. In her current work, Sanne focuses on the relations among organizations in the transition toward sustainable food packaging.
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Atelier Les ateliers de l’Axe 3 / Atelier Méta-organiser la transition écologique
Lundi 5 juillet 2021 10:30 - 12:30LEST, Salle 1 Nous faisons face à une urgence socio-environnementale sans précédent dans l’histoire humaine. Les dégâts sur l’environnement sont tels que le dépassement de certaines limites planétaires, au premier rang desquels la concentration de CO2, fait peser un risque existentiel sur l’humanité (Rockström et al., 2009; Xu & Ramanathan, 2017). Les risques d’effondrements sociaux, économiques et environnementaux sont réels, globaux et interconnectés (Servigne & Stevens, 2015). Dans un contexte de dérèglements climatiques, de surexploitation des ressources naturelles et plus généralement de destruction systématisée du vivant qui caractérisent la « grande crise de l’anthropocène », la place et les contributions des sciences (notamment sociales) sont de plus en plus fréquemment examinées à l’aune de leur capacité à apporter des réponses aux grands enjeux sociétaux, voire à nourrir directement des innovations ou solutions concrètes, le plus souvent technologiques. Cette vision de la recherche « orientée mission » (mission-oriented), établie comme priorité de la politique européenne dans la lignée des travaux de Mazzucato (2018), nous interroge collectivement et au sein de chaque discipline sur les défis que posent pour les sciences, une ou des transitions écologiques et sociales qui soient justes et durables. Cette grande crise de l’anthropocène a donc des effets dramatiques sur l’environnement et sur les sociétés, mais nous enjoint également à réorienter d’urgence les sciences, leurs objets, leurs motivations et leurs méthodologies. Cet impératif scientifique inouï invite à un examen critique des sciences, à une « épistémologie de transition », c’est-à-dire une analyse des effets spécifiques de l’anthropocène sur la production de savoir scientifique. En amorçant une conversation interdisciplinaire, nous souhaitons aborder ces réflexions autour de quelques grandes questions : 1) comment penser le rapport au vivant, à l’espace et au temps dans la production de connaissances pour la transition ? 2) cette crise affecte-elle nos modes d’enquête et de production de connaissance et doivent-ils évoluer ? 3) quelle est la place des sciences sociales dans le cadrage des controverses au sujet des grands enjeux socio-environnementaux comme la transition ? 4) La crise sanitaire COVID-19, présentée comme une crise « mineure » au regard des risques d’effondrement globaux, nous invite enfin à repenser notre rapport au réel ainsi que le monde d’après, alors comment les sciences sociales peuvent-elles y contribuer ? A travers les regards croisés de trois disciplines (histoire des sciences, philosophie et gestion) et de toutes celles des participant-es, nous explorerons ensemble quelques grands enjeux que soulèvent les crises de l’anthropocène pour les sciences sociales. Participant-es
Références Mazzucato, M. (2018). Mission-oriented research & innovation in the European Union: A problem-solving approach to fuel innovation-led growth. Publications Office of the European Union. Rockström, J., Steffen, W., Noone, K., Persson, A., Chapin III, F. S., Lambin, E., Lenton, T. M., Scheffer, M., Folke, C., & Schellnhuber, H. J. (2009). Planetary boundaries: Exploring the safe operating space for humanity. Ecology and Society, 14(2). Servigne, P., & Stevens, R. (2015). Comment tout peut s’effondrer. Petit manuel de collapsologie à l’usage des générations présentes. Le Seuil. Xu, Y., & Ramanathan, V. (2017). Well below 2° C: Mitigation strategies for avoiding dangerous to catastrophic climate changes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 201618481. Depuis le 1er octobre 2020, j'ai eu l'immense joie de commencer une nouvelle période de ma vie de chercheuse avec changement d'affectation. J'ai en effet rejoint le LEST, le Laboratoire d'Economie et de Sociologie du Travail, à Aix en Provence (UMR7317), Aix Marseille Université.
Intégrée dans l'axe 3 Territoires, Modèles productifs et formes de régulation, je poursuivrai mes travaux sur la gouvernance, avec un ancrage marqué sur les territoires. Je suis reconnaissante à TSM-R et tou-tes les membres de mon ancienne unité pour ces trois belles années ! Retrouvez mon portrait sur le site du laboratoire: http://lest.fr/fr/articles/2020/09/portrait-nouvelle-chercheuse-au-lest-heloise-berkowitzlest.fr/fr/articles/2020/09/portrait-nouvelle-chercheuse-au-lest-heloise-berkowitz Les chercheuses en gestion Héloïse Berkowitz et Isabelle Bouty racontent dans une tribune au « Monde » leur expérience, positive, de colloque scientifique tenu à distance en raison de l’épidémie de Covid-19.
Article à lire ici With my co-authors we are proud to announce our latest publication in Marine Policy on meta-organization and ocean governance.
Meta-organizations (MO, i.e. organizations of organizations) are increasingly set up and used to tackle contemporary environmental or social problems. The primary focus of this novel concept has been traditional industries and cases of MO made of one single type of members, e.g. firms, often in the same industry. Little research has examined cross-sectoral or multi-stakeholder MO and their roles in the governance of economic activities, especially in the oceans, which face severe and complex grand challenges. Here we investigate the forms and conditions under which MO can effectively facilitate the joint governance of ocean problems. Our paper develops a conceptualization of ‘governing MO’ as a category of MO dedicated to sustainability and organizations’ practices self-governance. We then conduct a comparative study of ocean governance devices through the MO lens and highlight broad variations in the use of MO characteristics. Lastly, we define idealtypical dimensions and boundary conditions for a MO model of ocean governance. Héloïse Berkowitz, Larry Crowder and Cassandra Brooks Access the paper here Après un an, comment analyser l'organisation collective des gilets jaunes?
Retrouvez mon intervention dans L'Express, interviewée par Olivier Philippe-Viela https://www.lexpress.fr/actualite/societe/chez-les-gilets-jaunes-un-catalyseur-de-colere-nomme-facebook_2107209.html Call for Papers EGOS 2020 in Hamburg, July 2–4 2020 Sub-theme 55: Tackling Societal Grand Challenges through Unconventional Forms of Organization Deadline for submission of short papers is Monday, January 14, 2019, 23:59 CET. Convenors: Héloïse Berkowitz CNRS, Toulouse School of Management, France [email protected] Michael Grothe-Hammer Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg, Germany, & Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway [email protected] Annachiara Longoni ESADE Business School, Spain [email protected] Our society faces multiple global challenges such as climate change, digital workforce, algorithmization, datafication, exploitive labor, extreme poverty, gender inequality, mass migration, aging populations, or increasing disaster risks. Scholars have named such problems “grand challenges”, i.e. “specific critical barrier(s) that, if removed, would help solve an important societal problem with a high likelihood of global impact through widespread implementation” (George et al., 2016: 1881). Grand challenges are characterized by wide constellations of interrelated systems and stakeholders, either directly involved or indirectly affected. This deep interconnectedness makes it increasingly difficult to forecast grand challenges’ future developments (Ferraro et al., 2015). Therefore, grand challenges confront society with enormous complexities and uncertainties that call for more adaptive collective action forms to provide solutions. Organizations are related to grand challenges in two crucial respects. First, organizat ions are more often than not directly affected by those challenges and have to cope with them (Vaara & Durand, 2012). For instance, organizations have to deal with natural disasters, manage migration, and implement digital transformations. Second, organizations are fundamental when it comes to tackling grand challenges (Ferraro et al., 2015). Due to their unmatched capabilit ies, organizations can fight poverty and gender inequality, shape digital changes, and ensure decent work environments (cf. Ahrne et al., 2016; Apelt et al., 2017). Therefore, it comes as no surprise that grand challenges are an issue of growing importance in organization studies. Scholars have, for example, investigated organizational responses to issues like climate change (Chaudhury et al., 2016; Schneider et al., 2017; Schüssler et al., 2014), underwater noise pollution and sustainable innovation (Berkowitz, 2018), societal effects of “datification” (Newell & Marabelli, 2015), disaster risk (Grothe-Hammer & Berthod, 2017), sustainability of supply chain (Acquier et al., 2015; Longoni et al., 2014), extreme poverty (Besio & Meyer, 2015), aging societies (Schirmer & Michailakis, 2016), refugee crises (Kornberger et al., 2017), or digital and exploitative labor (Bartley, 2007; Bauer & Gegenhuber, 2015). Given their complexities and wide-reaching effects, grand challenges thereby often evade well-establis hed organizational forms such as conventional bureaucracies. Instead, grand challenges seem to both spawn and require rather fluid and unconventional forms of organization (Brès et al., 2018; Schreyögg & Sydow, 2010). In this respect, we identify at least three possibilities of how unconventional forms of organization relate to societal grand challenges:
Our sub-theme aims at advancing this line of research. We want to explore how the mentioned as well as other unconventional forms of organization can tackle societal grand challenges and/or how grand challenges spawn the emergence of new organizational forms. Submission can be both empirical or theoretical in nature. Possible topics include but are not limited to:
Deadline for submission of short papers is Monday, January 14, 2019, 23:59 CET. You can find the CfP on the EGOS website here. You can find the guidelines for submission here. References
Proud to announce the publication of our article entitled "(Self)-Regulation of Sharing Economy Platforms through Partial Meta-Organizing" in the Journal of Business Ethics
Can platforms close the governance gap in the sharing economy, and if so, how? Through an in-depth qualitative case study, we analyze the process by which new regulation and self-regulation emerge in one sector of the sharing economy, crowdfunding, through the actions of a meta-organization. We focus on the principal French sectoral meta-organization, Financement Participatif France (FPF-Crowdfunding France). We show that this multi-stakeholder meta-organization not only closed the governance gap through collective legal, ethical, and utilitarian work but also preceded and shaped the new market. We present a hybrid governance approach combining a) soft multi-agency regulation, b) self-regulation through a process of "partial meta-organizing", and c) direct civil society participation. We expand the literature by highlighting features of partial meta-organizing by sharing economy platforms and by identifying conditions for successful joint regulation and self-regulation of the sector. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/333673573_Self-Regulation_of_Sharing_Economy_Platforms_through_Partial_Meta-Organizing Seemingly infinite, and above all so far away from our daily worries, the ocean may look like it can put up with all anthropic pressures: plastic, warming, acidification, resources overconsumption, novel entities, biodiversity and habitat loss. But science keeps showing it cannot. There is an urgent need to address these pressures that threaten both natural and human ecosystems. In this context of urgency, it appears crucial to develop Sustainable Ocean Studies, whose keystone could be management science. Unfortunately, while natural sciences have largely contributed to our understanding of marine issues and their solutions, management scholars on the contrary have rather neglected the ocean. In this special issue, we focus on the need for Sustainable Ocean Studies through three original highlights: scuba diving, marine wild meat consumption and interdisciplinary ocean research.
See our articles here: Par son immensité, sans doute aussi par son éloignement de nos considérations quotidiennes, l’océan nous semble capable d’encaisser tous les coups que nous lui faisons subir : plastique, réchauffement, acidification, surconsommation des ressources, introductions d’entités chimiques nouvelles, perte de biodiversité et d’habitat. Il est urgent d’adresser ces menaces qui font courir le risque d’un effondrement irrémédiable des écosystèmes naturels et humains. Pour ce faire, nous appelons de nos vœux le développement de Sustainable Ocean Studies dont le management pourrait constituer la clé de voute. Car hélas, alors que l’océan fait l’objet de nombreuses recherches en sciences de la Terre, il semble à l’inverse oublié du management. Dans ce dossier, nous abordons l’océan comme enjeu pour la recherche en management à travers trois éclairages : celui de la plongée sous-marine, celui de la consommation de faune menacée et enfin celui de la recherche en mer, nécessairement interdisciplinaire. Nos articles ici: Réécoutez mon intervention sur France Info, dans la Matinale de Matteu Maestracci, sur les 6 mois de mouvement des Gilets Jaunes, avec une grille de lecture de théorie des organisations
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