Integrating Social Network Analysis &amp; Organizational Development

Sharma, Divya

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“…Although systems thinking and strategies are recognized as particularly important for wicked problems such as realizing SE4All’s goals, a core challenge is to find methodologies and tools that can develop systems understanding and produce operationalizable insights (Loorbach, 2007; Senge et al, 1999; Senge, Ross, Smith, Roberts, & Kleiner 1994; Waddell, McLachlan, Meszoely, & Waddock, 2015). To this end, a wide variety of mapping tools have been developed such as social network analysis (Borgatti & Foster, 2003; Krebs & Holley, 2004; Sharma, 2011), value network analysis (Allee, 2008), mapping for clarity (Ritchie-Dunham & Puente, 2008; Ritichie-Dunham & Rabbino, 2001), web crawls (Rogers 2009, 2010), and system dynamics analysis (Bar-Yam, 2003; Forrester 1971; Sterman, 2000). Each has its particular value (Waddell, 2011, 2016).…”

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Societal Change Systems

Waddell¹

2016

The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science

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Problems referred to as wicked, messy, complex, and meta-level, by their very nature, require involving multiple and diverse organizations. Issues such as climate change, poverty, sustainable agriculture, and health care involve many hundreds of organizations at a national level; at a global level this easily increases to many thousands. Emerging their collective power into an effective force represents an enormous organizing challenge. Drawing from complexity and global networking knowledge, and building on the concept of “innovation system,” this article develops the concept of “societal change system” as a framework to support addressing the organizing challenge. This arose through analysis of global change initiatives aiming to integrate sustainability concerns into the production of electricity, which included a meeting of leaders of such change initiatives. The activities produced recommendations for greatly enhancing change efforts with pragmatic steps to develop the societal change system in which they are embedded.

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Societal Change Systems

Waddell¹

2016

The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science

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Integrating Social Network Analysis & Organizational Development

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