scholarly journals Toward an Organizational Theory of Resilience: An Interim Struggle

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (23) ◽  
pp. 13137
Author(s):  
Sooksan Kantabutra ◽  
Nuttasorn Ketprapakorn
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Organizational Theory ◽  
Organization Theory ◽  
Theory Development ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Organizational Resilience ◽  
Professional Literature ◽  
Institutional Settings ◽  
General Systems ◽  
Dynamic Relationships

While organizational resilience is widely considered as critical to sustainability, gaps in both the scholarly and professional literature exist. First, stronger conceptualization of the term is needed. Second, little is known about how organizational resilience can be continuously accomplished via daily practices and processes. Finally, the ongoing organization theory development does not sufficiently address these gaps. Contributing to the literature by filling in these fundamental gaps, the present study integrates the disconnectedly growing literature into an organizational theory of resilience. Based on the General Systems Theory, the resulting theory comprises inputs of human resources, socio-cultural values, institutional settings, and social and environmental issues, enabling organizational structure, value and belief subsystem, resilience mindset, sustainability practices, adaptive and buffering capacities, and sustainability performance as the output. Their dynamic relationships are discussed and expressed via a model and propositions, followed by implications for researchers and practitioners.

Commemorating alternative organizations and marginalized spaces: The case of forgotten Finntowns

Organization ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 90-113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diane M. Rodgers ◽  
Jessica Petersen ◽  
Jill Sanderson
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Theory ◽  
Organization Theory ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Organization Studies ◽  
The Past ◽  
Dominant Narratives ◽  
Alternative Organizations

Alternative organizations have become increasingly of interest in organizational theory. Previously understudied, these organizations have also been ignored or forgotten in the dominant narratives and spaces of commemoration. This further limits what we know about the past and the potential of alternative organizations. To illustrate this problem, we offer a specific case study of the forgotten alternative organizations and marginalized space of a former Finntown alongside the commemorative narratives and practices of capitalist entrepreneur heritage spaces. Extending organization theory on memory and forgetting, we detail how commemoration not only tends to legitimate capitalist forms of organizing, but also excludes alternatives. Finntowns, with their emphasis on cooperative organizations and community, provide a unique opportunity for organization studies to explore commemoration and forgetting in terms of power relations, time, and space. These marginalized spaces contained alternative organizations coexisting and contrasting with dominant capitalist organizations. Remembering their contributions means taking alternative organizations seriously, acknowledging their historic importance as well as their ability to be models for contemporary organizations.

Leaders, Managers, Entrepreneurs on and off the Organizational Stage

1991 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 529-546 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Czarniawska-Joerges ◽  
Rolf Wolff
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Organizational Theory ◽  
Organization Theory ◽  
Organizational Practice ◽  
Sociohistorical Context ◽  
Symbolic Performance

This paper explores three crucial roles of the organizational theatre: managers, leaders and entrepreneurs. Changing fashion in the organizational theory debate as well as in organizational practice puts different roles in focus at different times. Organization theory should, accordingly, shift its attention toward studying the contexts in which a given role acquires dominance, in place of an unreflective discussion of the relative functional advantages of each of them. This paper argues that none of the three will ever go out of fashion, as they can be seen as enactments of archetypes, embodying the different fears and hopes of those who create organizations by their daily performance. Leadership is seen as symbolic performance, expressing the hope of control over destiny; management as the activity of introducing order by coordinating flows of things and people towards collective action, and entrepreneurship as the making of entire new worlds. The sociohistorical context needs to be considered as the stage-set wherein these roles gain prominence.

scholarly journals (Dis) Investing Homi Bhabha’s Emancipative Discourse (from) in Post-colonial Project Management: Re-thinking the Amodernism of Imperial/African Political Economy

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Alfred Ndi
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Organization Theory ◽  
Third World ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
The Third ◽  
Perception Of Threat ◽  
Knowledge Industry ◽  
The Third World ◽  
World Economic Order

Drawing from Bruno Latour’s amodernist organization theory, which illuminates the canonization of epistemological boundaries in the field of project management studies, this paper argues that Homi Bhabha’s emancipative project in postcolonial research, has failed to assert itself in this globalizing age of projectification of societies. In its historiographical context incarnated in writings by management scholars, the field of project management orientalized Africa as underdeveloped and in need of occidentalist modernization. This Latourian insight driven by the quest for the ‘purified canon’ portraying the metropole as ‘centre’ of civilization and the colonies/Africa, as the Other, was tragically misjudged by nationalist ideologues fighting for independence, post-independence leaderships in Africa, who met in the Bandung Conference, advocates of a New World Economic Order, pan-Africanists, because their interventions were grounded chiefly in hybridization. But hybdization means the demise of the amodern and since the occident will not stand by to witness this decanonization with an applause, the Third World was already ‘mal parti’ (to cite Denan) because its post-independence leadership needlessly staged the post-colonial project on the path of a hybridization logic of inevitable confrontation rather than in a light of participation and solidarity. Hybridization in post-colonial management studies connotes with the inevitability of ‘confrontation’ at a time when the Third World does not have the means to deal efficiently with it. Hybridization can also mean ‘participation’ and ‘solidarity’ (in the sense of understanding the Other’s viewpoint and embedding it) without radiating the perception of threat and taking no responsibility or showing any competence to deal with the  consequences of that perception. It concludes that, instead of ‘playing’ the ideological game at the level of the ‘super-structures’, more emphasis should be placed on building greater competency in the Latourian amodernism of development, entrepreneurship, etc. The Third World needs to build more projects by investing in the knowledge industry of amodernism while incorporating its cultural values. The West and the emerging world should not see this as a ‘threat’ to amodernism but as a ‘richness’; but for this to happen, they should actively invest in sustainability of this process by supporting the intelligentsia of knowledge producers and interpreters in the Third World.

scholarly journals Introduction to NJWLS 2020-1

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anders Buch
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Trade Union ◽  
Organization Theory ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Working Life ◽  
Network Resources ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
Labor Market Policies ◽  
Transnational Trade ◽  
National Labor Market

This issue of Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies collects four new articles. In Cultural Obstacles in Transnational Trade Union Cooperation in Europe, Bengt Larsson aims to understand cultural differences that are seen as obstacles to cooperation by trade union representatives. Based on 38 interviews with 46 trade union officials from nine European countries, Larsson identifies the major cultural obstacles for cooperation. Even though noncultural factors – such as financial and network resources, different priorities, and differences in national labor market policies and regulations – are major obstacles for successful cooperation among trade unions, cultural factors play an important role in hampering cooperation. With inspiration from neo-institutional theory and organization theory, Larsson conceptualizes union culture in relation to norms, values, and meanings drawn from broader society. The findings of the study point to language and translation issues, differences experienced in cultural values and everyday practices, and differences in issues relating to ideology and identity regarding member orientation, negotiation, mobilization of members, etc. (...)

ORGANIZATIONAL AMBIDEXTERITY: KETANGGUHAN YANG DIBUTUHKAN UNTUK KEBERLANGSUNGAN KINERJA ORGANISASI MASA DEPAN

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 433-438
Author(s):  
Santi Retno Sari
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Theory ◽  
Radical Innovation ◽  
Superior Performance ◽  
Organizational Resilience ◽  
Organizational Ambidexterity ◽  
Research Paradigm ◽  
Related Research ◽  
New Research ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Exploration Exploitation

Organizational ambidexterity has emerged as a new research paradigm in organizational theory, but some fundamental issues in this debate remain controversial. Ambidexterity is the ability to exploit existing capabilities and to explore new opportunities. Achieving exploitation and exploration enables organizational success, even organizational resilience to improve and maintain sustained superior performance, but creates tensions and challenging. The ambidextrous organization excels in utilizing existing products to enable additional innovation and to explore new opportunities to drive more radical innovation, but related research is limited. This article aims to advance our understanding of the prerequisites of organizational prerequisites, approaches to achieving them, and to address the impact of each level of individuals and organizations for the sustainability of ambidexterity organizational achievements keywords: organizational ambidexterity, exploration-exploitation.

THE EMERGING CHALLENGE: THE VALIDITY OF COMPUTATIONAL ORGANIZATION MODEL AND METHODOLOGY

2013 ◽  
Vol 05 (01) ◽  
pp. 1330001
Author(s):  
HONGLI WANG ◽  
YUNBO LU
Keyword(s):  
Organization Theory ◽  
Theory Development ◽  
Empirical Method ◽  
Necessary Condition ◽  
Engineering System ◽  
Organization Model ◽  
Computational Organization Theory ◽  
Modeling Process ◽  
Pass Through ◽  
Validation Tests

The validity of the computational organization model is a necessary condition and also poses a bottleneck in computational organization theory development. Established on the frontline of computational organization theory, this paper provides an overall discussion on the difficulties in validation and validation methodology of the computational organization model. First, different from natural engineering system model, and also exceeding the traditional empirical method, the computational organization model is faced with various subjective and objective difficulties during the validation progress; second, in developing the situational validation methodology based on relationships among problem field, modeling purpose and referents, it is important for the computational organization model that the validation is conducted according to certain degree; third, the establishment of verification, validation and accreditation approach (VV&A), which is different from the natural engineering system, is an irresistible trend for future development of the computational organization model. Model validation should be focused on concept validation, operation validation, and data validation, as well as the principle of iterative validation approach and such validation should be conducted throughout the modeling process; finally, the validation of computational organization model should be the process to enhance people's confidence in the model. From the perspective of review, if the model is able to pass through all the validation tests, it is helpful for a better understanding of the model's ability, limitation and applicability. In this case, research from interdisciplinary experts is required urgently.

scholarly journals Offshore Middlemen: Transnational Intermediation in Technology Sourcing

2008 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Volker Mahnke ◽  
Jonathan Wareham ◽  
Niels Bjorn-Andersen
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Cultural Distance ◽  
Theory Development ◽  
Boundary Spanning ◽  
Labor Cost ◽  
Communication Styles ◽  
Technology Services ◽  
Technical Proficiency ◽  
Technology Sourcing

The tendency of acquiring information systems and other high technology services from international suppliers continues at unprecedented levels. The primary motivation for the offshore sourcing of technology and services continues to be labor cost arbitrage, and secondly, access to higher levels of expertise. Yet paradoxically, large gaps in technical proficiency, cultural values, and communication styles between client and vendor can undermine the overall success of the offshore relationship. This paper argues that a new breed of entities have emerged, brokering or intermediating offshore relations. The capabilities of such ‘middlemen’ include moderating disparities in expertise, culture, and communication styles that often deteriorate performance in offshore relationships. The paper presents a preliminary theoretical justification for the emergence of offshore intermediaries, describes how and why they develop boundary spanning capabilities, and offers a case study as initial evidence substantiating the function and processes in intermediating transnational offshoring relationships. Our theory development concludes with propositions concerning four major offshore intermediary capabilities: (i) intermediating cultural distance, (ii) intermediating cognitive distance, (iii) pre-contractual preparation and negotiation, and (iv) post-contractual operational management.

scholarly journals An Exploration of School Organization Metaphors and Their Contribution to School Change

SAGE Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 215824402110061
Author(s):  
Nai-Ying Whang
Keyword(s):  
School Reform ◽  
Organizational Theory ◽  
Organization Theory ◽  
School Change ◽  
School Organization ◽  
Administrative Staff ◽  
Student Needs ◽  
Complementary Relationship ◽  
The Core ◽  
Teachers And Parents

This study explores the development of organizational theory through understanding comprehensive resources of metaphors and the synergy of these metaphors’ changes in momentum. The comprehensive resources of organizational metaphors emphasize that exploration and detection of the complementary relationship between multiple metaphors can promote the development of organizational theory and the acquisition of generic competence requirements to stimulate the synergistic momentum for school reform and to respond to student needs. In this study, questionnaires were used to analyze the opinions of 409 school members across 28 middle schools. The questionnaire explored 17 metaphors and their qualitative meanings. Subsequently, according to the meanings of the metaphor momentum, 41 principals, administrative staff, teachers, and parents were interviewed. The results demonstrate that with bureaucracy as the core of the thought, machine metaphor, community metaphor, politics metaphor, organism metaphor, and brain metaphor interact to promote the development of school organization theory to stimulate school change.

scholarly journals Keadilan Lingkungan Dalam Gerakan Perlawanan (Resistensi Masyarakat Adat Kasepuhan Bayah Terhadap PT. Cemindo Gemilang)

ijd-demos ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wawan Wawan ◽  
Khoirunisa Khoirunisa ◽  
Nurul Patmah
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Marine Pollution ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Indigenous Community ◽  
Shared Responsibility ◽  
Local Media ◽  
Operational Activities ◽  
Resistance Movement

AbstractThis paper will discuss the resistance movement of the Kasepuhan Bayah Indigenous Community against PT. Gemindo Gemilang. Simply put, this paper will be divided into two parts, first we will elaborate on the anxiety experienced by the Kasepuhan Bayah Indigenous People towards PT. Gemindo Gemilang. Second, it will be discussed about how the resistance movement was carried out. Theoretically, this paper rests on two main theories, namely the theory of social movements and the theory of environmental justice. both theories are considered to have strong relevance to the unit of analysis in this study so that they can dissect the case sharply and in depth. This study uses a descriptive qualitative method with data collection techniques through media observation and interviews. The results of this study explain that the Kasepuhan Bayah Indigenous Community is experiencing unrest by the construction and operational activities of the cement factory owned by PT. Cemindo Gemilang which destroys the environment. their cultural values which are very conservative towards nature make environmental issues quickly realized and become a shared responsibility. These issues include the loss of springs, polluted rivers, flooding, shipping mud, and marine pollution. This issue later became the basis of their resistance movement. The resistance movement is carried out directly by conducting demonstrations and planting trees continuously. Their consistency in this movement created a pattern of resistance that drew responses from many parties such as the general public and local media. Keywords: environmental justice, resistance, indigenous peoples, PT. Gemindo Gemilang. AbstrakTulisan ini akan membahas gerakan perlawanan Masyarakat Adat Kasepuhan Bayah terhadap PT. Cemindo Gemilang. Sederhananya tulisan ini akan terbagi kedalam dua bagian, pertama kita akan elaborasi mengenai keresahan yang dialami oleh Masyarakat Adat Kasepuhan Bayah terhadap PT. Cemindo Gemilang. Kedua, akan dibedah tentang bagaimana gerakan perlawanan tersebut dilakukan. Secara teoritis tulisan ini bertumpu pada dua teori utama yakni teori gerakan sosial dan teori keadilan lingkungan (Environmental Justice). kedua teori tersebut dianggap memiliki relevansi yang kuat dengan unit analisa dalam penelitian ini sehingga dapat membedah kasus secara tajam dan mendalam. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode kualitatif deskriptif dengan teknik pengambilan data melalui observasi media dan wawancara. Hasil penelitian ini menjelaskan bahwa Masyarakat Adat Kasepuhan Bayah mengalami keresahan oleh aktifitas pembangunan dan operasional pabrik semen milik PT. Cemindo Gemilang yang merusak lingkungan. Nilai-nilai kultural mereka yang sangat konservatif terhadap alam membuat isu lingkungan dengan cepat disadari dan menjadi tanggung jawab bersama. Isu ini meliputi hilangnya mata air, sungai yang tercemar, banjir, lumpur kiriman, dan pencemaran laut. Isu ini kemudian menjadi basis dalam gerakan perlawanan mereka. Gerakan perlawanan dilakukan secara langsung dengan cara melakukan demonstrasi dan penanaman pohon secara terus menerus. Konsistensi mereka dalam gerakan ini menciptakan pola perlawanan yang menuai respon banyak pihak seperti masyarakat umum dan media-media lokal.Katakunci:  keadilan lingkungan, resistensi, masyarakat adat, PT. Cemindo Gemilang.

PPPs and non-financial value: a critical analysis of public policy and implications for social, environmental and indigenous cultural values

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gordon Boyce ◽  
Lachlan McDonald-Kerr
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Environmental Accounting ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Project Assessment ◽  
Social Environmental

Purpose This paper investigates how contemporary public policy for public-private partnerships (PPPs) deals with non-financial values and thereby shapes the way social, cultural and environmental issues are accounted for. Design/methodology/approach A case study critically analyses PPP policy in Victoria, Australia, an acknowledged leader in the area. The investigation of the policy’s approach to non-financial value focusses on the treatment of social and environmental issues, particularly in relation to indigenous cultural heritage values. Findings It is found that important non-financial issues are characterised as risks to be quantified and monetised in PPP project assessment. A critical analysis shows that this approach obscures many significant dimensions of social, environmental and Indigenous cultural heritage value. The resultant relegation of non-financial values in public discourse and decision-making is seen to entrench unsustainable practices. Social implications The paper shows how public policy may shape actions and outcomes that impact directly on social, environmental and indigenous cultural heritage values. Originality/value This study provides insights into contemporary social and environmental accounting and accountability for PPPs. It adds to the understanding of the implications of public policy framings of non-financial values.

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