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Understanding the societal consequences of organizations is a perennial, if sometimes neglected, concern within the field of organization studies. Recently, such concerns have been given renewed emphasis, with one vibrant stream of research focusing on 'grand challenges', particularly those with a strong societal component, directed at a common good beyond that of business organizations themselves. This might include issues such as sustainable development, natural disasters and pandemics, poverty, community regeneration, and climate change.
This volume builds on the current interest in grand challenges by taking seriously the problem of 'organizing beyond organizations', and by engaging with the unique methodological and theoretical toolkits afforded by a process studies perspective to address these issues. Societal challenges are inherently inter-organizational, necessitating theoretical approaches that not only examine organizational action but also frame that action in terms of its wider relational dynamics with other stakeholders. Although some of these considerations are not new, their implications for addressing societal issues such as grand challenges and sustainable development goals has scarcely been considered, let alone how traditional and non-traditional modes of organizing might jointly work towards achieving such outcomes. The chapters embrace the power of a process worldview in order to understand the dynamic nature of any particular grand challenge or societal issue as it evolves within the relationality of actions and practices within and between organizational actors.
Contents
List of Figures and Tables
List of Contributors
Series Editorial Structure
Endorsements
1: Joel Gehman; Paula Jarzabkowski; Ann Langley; Haridimos Tsoukas: Organizing Beyond Organizations for the Common Good: Confronting Societal Challenges through Process Studies
2: Stewart Clegg; Miguel Pina e Cunha; Arménio Rego: How Employee Activists Tackle Societal Issues by Promoting Organizational Discourse-Practice Alignment
3: Astrid Jensen; Cindie Maagaard;Heidi Hansen: Employee Actions Beyond Organizational Borders: A Narrative Analysis of the Communicative Constitution of CSR Communication
4: Shaheem de Vries; Kosheek Sewchurran: Could Legitimizing a Process-Organizing Ethos on the Frontline of Civil Service Lead to More Sustainable Outcomes?
5: Helen Etchanchu: Why Won't You Listen to Me?: How Actors Construct Discursive Legitimacy in Issue Fields
6: Daniel Nyberg; Vanessa Bowden; Christopher Wright: Organizing Disorganization: The Isolation, Separation, and Polarization of Climate Change Demands
7: Benjamin D. Innis; Jean M. Bartunek: Soundtracking, Accompaniment, and Modeling: How the Cultural Production of Music Addresses Societal Challenges
8: Jane K. Lê;Amadou Lô: Snorkeling Masks to Breathe: How Urgency Enables Interorganizational Responses to Paradoxical Grand Challenges
9: Natalie Slawinski; Jennifer Brenton; Bruna Brito; Wendy Smith: Navigating the Paradoxes of Engaged Research to Address Grand Challenges: A Process Model
10: Jill Purdy; Barbara Gray: Addressing Cross-Level Challenges in Designing Multistakeholder Partnerships
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