Care Ethics and Kindness in Management and Organizational Studies

Organizational contradictions and process studies offer interwoven and complementary insights. Studies of dialectics, paradox, and dualities depict organizational contradictions that are oppositional as well as interrelated such that they persistently morph and shift over time. Studies of process often examine how contradictions fuel emergent, dynamic systems and stimulate novelty, adaptation, and transformation. Drawing from rich conversations at the Eighth International Symposium on Process Organization Studies, the contributors to this volume unpack these relationships in more depth. The chapters explore three main, connected themes through both conceptual and empirical studies, including (1) offering insight into how process theorizing advances understandings of organizational contradictions; (2) shedding light on how dialectics, paradoxes, and dualities fuel organizational processes that affect persistence and transformation; and (3) exploring the convergence and divergence of dialectics, paradox, and dualities lenses. Taken together, this book offers key insights in order to inform persistent, contradictory dynamics in organizations and organizational studies.

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The Catholic Church in America, the Discipline of Bioethics, and the Culture of Life

The Linacre Quarterly ◽

10.1080/002436311803888221 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 78 (4) ◽

pp. 415-436

Author(s):

Mark S. Latkovic

Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

Moral Reasoning ◽

Catholic Church ◽

Care Ethics ◽

Positive Influence ◽

Health Care Ethics ◽

Twentieth Anniversary ◽

American Society ◽

The Church ◽

The Catholic Church

In this paper, I will first briefly discuss why the Catholic Church has always had and continues to have such a great concern for bioethics or health-care ethics, while I also highlight the biblical roots of this concern. Secondly, I will describe some of the ways in which the Catholic Church in America has exercised a positive influence in the field of bioethics, or what was in the mid-twentieth century often called medical ethics. Thirdly, I will sketch how and why the Church has to a large extent lost this influence, tracing how secularization both inside and outside the Church contributed to the destruction of the so-called “Catholic ghetto” and to the assimilation of ideas from the culture that were often alien to the Gospel and sound moral reasoning. Finally, I will offer some general reflections on how the Church can regain her influence in this area—especially with the goal in mind of building a culture of life in American society—and how Catholic scholars in particular can contribute to this effort by following the lead of the late Pope John Paul II's 1995 encyclical on bioethics, Evangelium vitae, whose twentieth anniversary is fast approaching.

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So far and yet so near: The emerging characteristics, forms and configurations of organizational proximity in the context of digitalization

Human Systems Management ◽

10.3233/hsm-201132 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-16

Author(s):

Hongxia Peng

Keyword(s):

Conceptual Framework ◽

Crucial Role ◽

Organizational Context ◽

Organizational Studies ◽

Cognitive Approach ◽

Analytical Review ◽

Organizational Proximity ◽

Conceptual Study ◽

Management Cognition

BACKGROUND: The current pandemic crisis evidences the importance of questioning and reconsidering the evolution of organizational proximity and the crucial role of digitalization in the emergence of new characteristics, forms and configurations of organizational proximity. OBJECTIVE: This article presents a conceptual study aimed at analyzing the evolution of organizational proximity in the context of digitalization. METHODS: Adopting a systemic-cognitive approach inspired by existing studies on management cognition and the biology of cognition, this article first presents an analytical review of existing research in organizational studies and proposes a taxonomy of proximity based on the forms and characteristics identified in the organizational context. Second, it introduces the notion of a proximity unit, based on which a conceptual framework for analyzing organizational proximity is conceived. RESULTS: Based on the proposed framework, this article analyzes the new characteristics and forms of organizational proximity and identifies possible configurations of organizational proximity by pointing out the emergence of substituted proximity propelled by digitalization and formulating six propositions. CONCLUSIONS: The article ends by arguing that it is important for organizations to conceive a composite proximity strategy by taking into account the effect of substituted proximity, driven by digitalization, in the configuration of organizational proximity.

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Towards a Transdisciplinary Theoretical Framework of Citizen Science: Results from a Meta-Review Analysis

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su13147904 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (14) ◽

pp. 7904

Author(s):

Andrea Spasiano ◽

Salvatore Grimaldi ◽

Alessio Maria Braccini ◽

Fernando Nardi

Keyword(s):

Citizen Science ◽

Information Technologies ◽

Research Process ◽

Theoretical Framework ◽

Organizational Studies ◽

Digital Platforms ◽

Social Challenges ◽

Review Analysis ◽

Meta Review ◽

Application Fields

This work intends to lay the foundations for a theoretical framework of citizen science combining social and organizational implications with the support of information technologies. The proposed theoretical framework moves towards a shared and common research process between experts and citizens to deal with environmental and social challenges. The role and capacity of online communities is explored and their engagement capacity by means of web-based digital platforms supporting crowdsourcing activities. In this contribution, authors highlight the most common practices, methods and issues of citizen science approaches adopted from multidisciplinary application fields to obtain insights for designing a new participative approach for organizational studies. To reach this goal, authors illustrate the results of a systematic meta-review analysis, consisting of an accurate selection and revision of journal review articles in order to highlight concepts, methods, research design approaches and tools adopted in citizen science approaches.

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