Organizational Dimensions of Global Change : No Limits to Cooperation

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ISBN: 9780761915294 | 076191529X
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Copyright: 4/29/1999

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This book is the first in a new series designed to facilitate an emergent dialogue around the issues of global change and cooperative potential. Written by an interdisciplinary group of leading scholars, it explores how organizational scholarship and thinking can lead to a greater understanding of global issues.Topics discussed include: global women leaders; corporations as agents of global change; international networking; the development of global environmental regimes and collaborative knowledge creation.

Preface

Acknowledgments

xviii

No Limits to Cooperation: An Introduction to the Organizational Dimensions of Global Change

(38)

David L. Cooperrider

Jane E. Dutto

Global Change Research Domain: A Brief Review

(8)

The United States and International Global Change Research Program (GCRP)

(4)

From the Abstract to the Concrete: New Organizing Forms for Global Change

(3)

Overview of the Contents

(22)

Sensemaking and Global Change

(6)

Collaboration and Partnership Arrangements: The Structures of Global Change

(6)

Social Constructionism and Global Change

(9)

Concluding Comments

(4)

Part I: SENSEMAKING AND GLOBAL CHANGE

Sensemaking as an Organizational Dimension of Global Change

(18)

Karl E. Weick

The Phenomenon of Sensemaking

(2)

The Seven Properties of Sensemaking

(3)

Organizing for Sensemaking

(1)

The Mann Gulch Disaster as Problematic Sensemaking

(2)

The Worker's Defense Committee as Successful Sensemaking

(6)

Conclusion

(2)

Constructionist Leadership in the Global Relational Age: The Case of the Mountain Forum

(31)

Kathryn M. Kaczmarski

David L. Cooperrider

The Emergence of Global Civil Society

(3)

What We Know About the Leadership Dimensions of Global Organizing

(3)

Leadership for Global Organizing

(3)

Methodology

(1)

The Story of the Mountain Forum

(11)

Background

(1)

A Short History

(2)

The Earth Summit: June 1992

(1)

The FAO Intervention: March 1994

(1)

The Lima Meeting: February 1995

(2)

The Initial Organizing Committee: September 1995

(4)

Going Forward

(1)

The Fourth Form: Constructionist Leadership

(12)

Leadership Through Appreciation

(2)

Construction Through Metaphor and Narrative Form

(5)

The Web of Inclusion

(2)

Conclusion: A Call for Future Research

(2)

``Not on Our Watch'': The Biodiversity Crisis and Global Collaboration Response

(26)

Frances Westley

The Biodiversity Crisis

(1)

A New Species of Trouble

(3)

Responses to the Crisis

(18)

A New Species of Solution: The Conservation Breeding Specialist Group

(4)

``Not on Our Watch'': Motivations and Misgivings

(12)

Summary and Conclusions

110

(4)

Global Change as Contextual Collaborative Knowledge Creation

114

(25)

Ramkrishnan V. Tenkasi

Susan Albers Mohrman

Traditional Models of Knowledge Transmission

115

(2)

Unpacking the Operative Assumptions of the Traditional Models of Knowledge Transmission

117

(3)

Knowledge Can Be Objectively Realized

117

(1)

Knowledge Is Applicable Across Contexts

117

(1)

Knowledge Is Complete

118

(2)

An Alternate Set of Assumptions About the Nature of Knowledge

120

(10)

Knowledge Is Subjectively Constructed and May Be Subjectively Consumed

120

(2)

Knowledge Requires Contextual Adaptation

122

(5)

Knowledge Is Incomplete

127

(2)

The Problem With Soft Technologies

129

(1)

Perspective Taking as the Basis for Collaborative Learning

130

(6)

Issues in Perspective Taking

130

(3)

Creating Contexts for Collaborative Learning

133

(3)

Conclusion

136

(3)

Part II: COLLABORATION AND PARTNERSHIP ARRANGEMENTS: The Structures of Global Change

Social Capital, Mutual Influence, and Social Learning in Intersectoral Problem Solving in Africa and Asia

139

(29)

L. David Brown

Darcy Ashman

Conceptual Background

141

(2)

Cases and Methods

143

(3)

Analysis and Findings

146

(14)

Cooperation Success

146

(3)

Social Capital

149

(3)

Decision Making

152

(4)

Social Learning

156

(4)

Discussion

160

(8)

Transnational and International Social Movements in a Globalizing World: Creating Culture, Creating Conflict

168

(17)

Mayer N. Zald

Assembling Resources and the Internationalization of Targets

171

(5)

Migration and the Distribution of Mobilizable Constituents

172

(1)

Transforming Role of Media

173

(1)

The Internationalization of Venues and Grievances

174

(2)

Collective Behavior, Organization, and Tactics in a Transnational Environment

176

(7)

Demonstration Effects and Simple Diffusion Processes

177

(2)

The Development of Transnational Social Movements: NGOs and State-Sponsored Forms

179

(2)

Social Movements and the Growth of International Agencies and Action

181

(1)

The Impact of Transnational Movements

181

(2)

Conclusion: Creating Culture, Creating Conflict

183

(2)

The Development of Global Environmental Regimes: Organizing in the Absence of Authority

185

(25)

Barbara Gray

Classification of Environmental Disputes

187

(2)

Commons

187

(1)

Shared Natural Resources

188

(1)

Transboundary Externalities

188

(1)

Linked Issues

188

(1)

What Is at Stake?

189

(2)

Theoretical Background

191

(6)

Organizing in the Absence of Boundaries

191

(1)

Establishing Negotiated Orders Through Collaboration

191

(1)

The Negotiation Stakes

192

(1)

Organizing Mechanisms

193

(2)

Types of Regimes

195

(2)

Some Alternative Models of Governance

197

(6)

Joint Management Regimes

197

(3)

Global Partnership Approach

200

(2)

Global Governance Approach

202

(1)

Challenges to Organizing

203

(5)

Framing the Problem

203

(1)

Dealing With Power Differences

204

(2)

Selecting a Convener

206

(2)

Conclusion

208

(2)

International Networking: The Role of Southern NGOs

210

(25)

Julie Fisher

Nongovernmental Organizations and Global Change Strategies

210

(3)

Definitions

213

(2)

Exploring International Networking Among NGOs

215

(2)

The Intraregional Level

217

(10)

Intraregional Networks: A Cook's Tour

219

(5)

Specialized Intraregional Networks

224

(1)

Staying in Touch With the Grassroots

225

(2)

Interregional South-South Networking

227

(2)

A Virtual Global Community

229

(3)

Conclusion

232

(3)

Constructing and Deconstructing Global Change Organizations

235

(20)

John D. Aram

A Counterpoint to the Utilitarian Biases of Organization Theory

236

(2)

Global Issue Organizations as Networks of Weak Ties

238

(2)

Cultural/Intellectual Influences on Global Change Movement

240

(3)

Rational and Progressive

240

(1)

Advocacy of Human Rights

240

(1)

Internationalist

241

(1)

Communitarian

241

(1)

Cosmopolitan

241

(1)

Social Reformist

242

(1)

Messianic/Evangelical

242

(1)

Implications

243

(1)

Global Forces Contending for Influence on Human Behavior

243

(6)

Ethno-Nationalism as a Global Phenomenon

245

(2)

Globalization of Crime

247

(1)

Conflicting Justice Claims

248

(1)

Unpacking the Theme: Organizational Dimensions of Global Change: No Limits to Cooperation

249

(2)

Conclusions

251

(4)

Part III: SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONISM AND GLOBAL CHANGE

Global Organization and the Potential for Ethical Inspiration

255

(15)

Kenneth J. Gergen

The Ethical Challenge of Globalization

256

(2)

The Problematics of Principles and Sanctions

258

(1)

The Modern Organization: Ethical and Pragmatic Shortcomings

259

(5)

Relational Process and the Ethics of Postmodern Organizing

264

(2)

Toward Ethically Generative Practice

266

(3)

Conclusions

269

(1)

Global Technoscapes and Silent Voices: Challenges to Theorizing Global Cooperation

270

(21)

Raza A. Mir

Marta B. Calas

Linda Smircich

Global Cooperation and Organization Theory: An Invitation to ``Self'' Reflexivity

274

(4)

Organization Theory and Female Feticide: A Curious (Power/Knowledge) Intersection

278

(6)

The Inadequacy of Theory and the Impossibility of Global (Epistemological) Cooperation

284

(3)

Can the Subaltern Speak? Theorizing Silences in the Global Discourse

287

(4)

From a Dominant Voice Toward Multivoiced Cooperation: Mediating Metaphors for Global Change

291

(29)

Rene Bouwen

Chris Steyaert

Global Organizing Versus Local Development: Challenges and Opportunities

293

(5)

Global Development on a Path Too Narrow

293

(2)

Three Domains of Global Tensions and Opportunities

295

(1)

The Challenge to Rethink Part-Whole Organizing Relationships

296

(2)

Competition Versus Cooperation as Dominant Frames of Alignment

298

(4)

Competition as the Dominant Frame of Interaction

298

(1)

Framing Cooperation at the Service of Competition

299

(1)

Limits to Cooperation (Club of Lisbon)

300

(1)

From a Dominant Voice to Multivoicedness

301

(1)

Metaphors for Multivoiced Living Together

302

(10)

Global Organizing: Building the Tower of Babel?

302

(2)

Global Change: A Matter of Dialogical Imagination?

304

(5)

Global Change: The Sound of Polyphony?

309

(1)

Global Change: A Strangers' Meeting?

310

(2)

Organizational Principles for Global Organizing: Illustrations

312

(6)

Organizing Principles for Understanding and Enacting Global Change Projects

313

(2)

Competition and Multivoicedness in the Discourse of a Global Development Project

315

(3)

Conclusion

318

(2)

Global Women Leaders: A Dialogue With Future History

320

(26)

Nancy J. Adler

What Has Changed? Economic, Political, and Cultural Spaces

321

(1)

Global Leadership: Who Will Take Care of the World?

322

(1)

Change: Shifting From the 20th to the 21st Century

323

(1)

Global Women Leaders

324

(4)

Women Political Leaders: Numbers Increasing

325

(1)

Global Women Business Leaders: Where Are They?

325

(3)

Global Women Leaders: What Do We Know About Them?

328

(15)

Diversity Defines the Dominant Patterns

330

(3)

Unique Paths to Power

333

(10)

Global Leadership and the 21st Century

343

(3)

Corporations as Agents of Global Sustainability: Beyond Competitive Strategy

346

(17)

Stuart L. Hart

The Role of Corporations in Addressing Global Change

347

(2)

The Competitive Model

349

(4)

Sustainable Competitive Advantage

349

(3)

Collaboration to Ensure Legitimacy

352

(1)

Beyond Competitive Strategy

353

(3)

Corporations as Agents of Global Sustainability

356

(4)

The Automobile Industry: Creative Destruction?

358

(1)

Beyond Cars

359

(1)

Conclusions and Research Questions

360

(3)

References

363

(22)

Index

385

(12)

About the Editors

397

(2)

About the Contributors

399

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