Encompassing Stability and Novelty in Organization Studies: An Events-based Approach

Hussenot, Anthony; Missonier, Stéphanie

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“…We focused specifically on two dimensions of an events-based framework as proposed by Hussenot & Missonier (2016): a) the actual event as unit of analysis to understand organization and b) how past and future events are embedded in the actual event.…”

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Organizing Solidarity Initiatives: A Socio-spatial Conceptualization of Resistance

Daskalaki

Kokkinidis

2017

Organization Studies

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This paper offers a spatial conceptualization of resistance by focusing on the practices through which solidarity initiatives constitute new resistance socio-spatialities. We discuss two solidarity initiatives in Greece, WCNA and Vio.Me SI, and explore how they institute distinctive local and translocal organizational practices that make the production of new forms of resistance possible. In particular, we adopt a productive and transformative view of resistance and first, identify three local practices of organizing solidarity initiatives namely, the organization of general assembly meetings, the constitution of resistance laboratories and the (re)articulation of sociospatial relations in local sites. Then, we turn to flows, movements, and translocal resistance formations and examine the role of solidarity mobilizations, the material and symbolic co-production of resources and members' mobility in the production of resistance. We conclude that new resistance socio-spatialities become constitutive of a broader reconfiguration of political agencies, a creative process that challenges existing relations and invites alternative ways of working and organizing.

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Organizing Solidarity Initiatives: A Socio-spatial Conceptualization of Resistance

Daskalaki

Kokkinidis

2017

Organization Studies

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“…A concern with organizational maintenance -that is, with the way that organizations perpetuate themselves and manage members-is apparent in parallel literatures across the social sciences (Lawrence and Suddaby 2006;Teles 2016;Wilson 1995). In particular, organizational theorists have recently given attention to the ways that members of organizations may purposively maintain, reproduce, and repair organizations and institutions through practices (Langley et al 2013;Lok and de Rond 2013;Hussenot and Missonier 2016;Lawrence and Suddaby 2006;Lawrence, Suddaby, and Leca 2009;Dacin and Dacin 2008). In this study, I build on this literature by considering how members of the AAFP purposively work toward the preservation of the organization in policy debates.…”

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Health or Politics? Organizational Maintenance in the AAFP

Brophy

2018

Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law

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In recent years, the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) has debated and developed organizational stances on issues as varied as nuclear disarmament, gay marriage, policing, and climate change. This article considers the relationship of "political" policies to the ongoing maintenance of this professional association over time. The author describes transitions in the organization's policies from broad, neutral statements to more explicitly politicized social policy statements and then discusses debates around the establishment of an organizational policy on same-gender marriage. Results indicate that members use concerns about the maintenance of the organization over time as a lingua franca during debates. However, while members routinely interpret policy in terms of its relationship to the maintenance of the organization, they articulate conflicting visions of maintenance, with those in favor of the policies describing maintenance primarily in terms of external legitimacy and those in opposition describing maintenance primarily in terms of internal cohesion.

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“…Based on this analysis, at this point we were able to identify a number of "events" that precipitated, or else undermined, leadership (Hussenot & Missionier, 2016).…”

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In Search of Identity Leadership: An ethnographic study of emergent influence in an interorganizational R&D team

Smith

Haslam

Nielsen

2017

Organization Studies

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Recent trends in the leadership literature have advanced a relational and processual perspective that sheds light on the way leadership emerges and evolves in dynamic and flexible organizations. However, very few empirical studies have explored these processes over an extended period. To address this lacuna, we report findings from a three-year ethnographic study that explored the emergence and development of leadership in a selfmanaged interorganizational R&D team. Findings show that in the context of various events that impacted on the team, leadership emerged through interactions, processes, and practices that were perceived by team members to develop and advance shared goals and shared identity. Leadership responses to uncertainty surrounding the project were generally legitimated by team members' background and expertise in relation to this shared identity, while a lack of perceived legitimacy also compromised leadership. These observations are consistent with arguments that leadership revolves around the creation and enactment of shared social identity. However, they also suggest that the form and nature of leadership is hard to predict because it is heavily structured by specific identity-relevant practices and perceptions that arise in the context of unforeseeable events.

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Encompassing Stability and Novelty in Organization Studies: An Events-based Approach

Cited by 52 publications

References 50 publications

Organizing Solidarity Initiatives: A Socio-spatial Conceptualization of Resistance

Organizing Solidarity Initiatives: A Socio-spatial Conceptualization of Resistance

Health or Politics? Organizational Maintenance in the AAFP

In Search of Identity Leadership: An ethnographic study of emergent influence in an interorganizational R&D team

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