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Tables of Contents for Organizational Dimensions of Global Change
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Preface
xv
Acknowledgments
xviii
No Limits to Cooperation: An Introduction to the Organizational Dimensions of Global Change
1
38
David L. Cooperrider
Jane E. Dutto
Global Change Research Domain: A Brief Review
5
8
The United States and International Global Change Research Program (GCRP)
6
4
From the Abstract to the Concrete: New Organizing Forms for Global Change
10
3
Overview of the Contents
13
22
Sensemaking and Global Change
14
6
Collaboration and Partnership Arrangements: The Structures of Global Change
20
6
Social Constructionism and Global Change
26
9
Concluding Comments
35
4
Part I: SENSEMAKING AND GLOBAL CHANGE
Sensemaking as an Organizational Dimension of Global Change
39
18
Karl E. Weick
The Phenomenon of Sensemaking
41
2
The Seven Properties of Sensemaking
43
3
Organizing for Sensemaking
46
1
The Mann Gulch Disaster as Problematic Sensemaking
47
2
The Worker's Defense Committee as Successful Sensemaking
49
6
Conclusion
55
2
Constructionist Leadership in the Global Relational Age: The Case of the Mountain Forum
57
31
Kathryn M. Kaczmarski
David L. Cooperrider
The Emergence of Global Civil Society
57
3
What We Know About the Leadership Dimensions of Global Organizing
60
3
Leadership for Global Organizing
60
3
Methodology
63
1
The Story of the Mountain Forum
63
11
Background
63
1
A Short History
64
2
The Earth Summit: June 1992
66
1
The FAO Intervention: March 1994
67
1
The Lima Meeting: February 1995
68
2
The Initial Organizing Committee: September 1995
70
4
Going Forward
74
1
The Fourth Form: Constructionist Leadership
74
12
Leadership Through Appreciation
77
2
Construction Through Metaphor and Narrative Form
79
5
The Web of Inclusion
84
2
Conclusion: A Call for Future Research
86
2
``Not on Our Watch'': The Biodiversity Crisis and Global Collaboration Response
88
26
Frances Westley
The Biodiversity Crisis
89
1
A New Species of Trouble
89
3
Responses to the Crisis
92
18
A New Species of Solution: The Conservation Breeding Specialist Group
94
4
``Not on Our Watch'': Motivations and Misgivings
98
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