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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