Strategies for Distributed and Collective Action

Connecting the Dots

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

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Beskrivning

How do we organize ourselves to accomplish shared goals? Our well-worn modes of collective action--from markets to hierarchies, from institutions to movements--have so far provided a limited vocabulary to investigate, let alone invent, new forms of open, networked, and trans-sectoral collaboration. Yet new forms of collective action are continually emerging, defined by openness, polycentricity, and plurality while still strategic and goal-oriented. Martin Kornberger pursues these experimental models to offer a vocabulary for the hitherto "untapped capability" to organize and strategize distributed and collective action. He introduces a novel set of concepts including shared concerns, symbols, interface designs, participatory architectures, evaluative infrastructures, network strategy, and leading as diplomacy, which together combine goal-orientated, purposeful action with scale, openness, and creativity. With a new vocabulary we can explore alternative ways of thinking and strategies to address the significant challenges and crises of our times.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2022-01-06
Mått:168 x 241 x 23 mm
Vikt:545 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:240
Förlag:OUP OXFORD
ISBN:9780198864301

Utforska kategorier

Organisationsteori inom Ekonomi och Ledarskap
Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik
Affärsstrategi inom Ekonomi och Ledarskap

Mer om författaren

Martin Kornberger is Chair in Strategy and International Management at the University of Edinburgh and a research fellow at the Vienna University of Economics and Business. He has lived and worked in Australia (University of Technology Sydney as Associate Professor in Design and Management and as Research Director of the Australian Creative Industry Innovation Centre), Denmark (Copenhagen Business School as Professor of Strategy and Organization) and France (EM Lyon as Professor of Management Innovation). He has also been a Visiting Professor or Fellow at Stockholm University, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, and Aoyama Business School, Tokyo. With his philosophical background and rather eclectic bookshelf behind him, his work explores strategies for and organization of new forms of distributed collective action.

Recensioner i media

Kornberger dives more deeply into the foundational assumptions and epistemologies of different theoretical traditions, reanimating long familiar arguments for seasoned readers and inviting graduate students to engage critically with classic texts and novel social phenomena. Each wave of theorizing about organization was grounded in the experience of specific episodes of sweeping social change or organizational innovation.

Innehållsförteckning

1: Introduction: Collective Action in Crisis? Part I. Inventory: Modes of Collective Action 2: Invisible Hand Explanations: Emergence, Markets, and Collective Action 3: Visible Hand Explanations: Hierarchy, Management, and Collective Action 4: Institutional Explanations: Commons, Conventions, and Collective Action 5: Grassroot Explanations: Movements, Identity, and Collective Action Passage 6: Changing Landscapes, New Maps: Conditions of the Possibility for Distributed and Collective Action Part II. Discovery: Figures of Thought for Distributed and Collective Action 7: On Purpose: Concerns, Symbols, North Stars 8: Organizing the Open: Interface Design, Participatory Architectures, and Evaluative Infrastructures 9: Network Strategy: A Sense of Direction 10: Enter the Diplomat: Leading Distributed Collectives 11: In Conclusion: The 18th Camel