Meta-Organization Matters

Spillman, Lyn

doi:10.1177/1056492616688856

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“…However, instead of attempting to answer how family physicians might increase their relative power, I investigate the quality of this power (Reich 2012;Timmermans and Kolker 2004), exploring how family physicians construct arguments about their collective action in light of the threats facing their specialty. Recent reexaminations of professional associations have attended to the important cultural functions performed by these organizations (Aldrich 2018;Spillman 2012Spillman , 2018Spillman and Brophy 2018). Professional associations are sites of meaning making, which "routinely produce cognitive categories and practices" for members (Spillman 2012: 135).…”

Section: Strategically Positioning the Specialty Of Family Medicinementioning

confidence: 99%

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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Section: Strategically Positioning the Specialty Of Family Medicinementioning

confidence: 99%

Health or Politics? Organizational Maintenance in the AAFP

Brophy

2018

Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law

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“…In the absence of identified selective goods, previous studies of trade associations have noted, but not explained, the longevity of these organizations (Spillman, 2018). Typically, trade associations are studied as lobbyists for business environment change (Barley, 2010;Walker & Rea, 2014), but the outcomes of these activities are collective goods, available to all.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The lack of research on value-independent collaboration facilitators is all the more surprising given their prevalence and importance. Trade associations, as a prominent example, are estimated to number up to 3,500 in the United Kingdom alone and are recognized, in a government report on growth, as having a key role to play in engagement with business (Heseltine, 2012), and yet they are under-researched organizations (Marques, 2017;Rajwani et al, 2015;Spillman, 2018). To ensure that policy-makers are able to exploit the full potential of this category, the research questions posed are the following: RQ1: what attributes and actions characterize the most effective value-independent collaboration facilitators, and RQ2: how might the motivation for value-independent collaboration facilitators be explained?…”

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confidence: 99%

Value-independent Third-party Orchestrators as Catalysts of Business Collaboration

Pinnington

Lyons

Meehan

2020

Journal of Management Inquiry

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Collaboration is recognized by policy-makers as a key element in innovation-led economic growth. Collaborative relationships form organically, but also can be actively facilitated. Studies of business collaboration facilitation typically concentrate on value-appropriating commercial organizations, acting as hub orchestrators or knowledge-brokers. Little attention has been paid to potentially more trustable and effective value-independent facilitators. The attributes and activities of these organizations were empirically investigated using grounded theory and situational analysis. Value-independent, third-party orchestrators (i3POs) are demarcated from related concepts, and are found to vary considerably in capability and motivation as collaboration orchestrators. A reappraisal of these organizations’ drivers, from the perspective of collective action theory, suggests how more i3POs may be encouraged to follow the practices of leading examples, with positive economic outcomes. Membership-based i3POs, such as trade associations, have longer term potential as collaboration orchestrators than transient business-growth programs but are under-exploited in this regard.

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“…However, the use of accountants may be over-reported as a source of wider support, since the inherent complexities of financial matters, including payroll and taxation, make it difficult for owner-managers to 'muddle through', and therefore support is often needed in this area. However, while much of the research into trade associations investigates their lobbying role and/or their relationships with larger firms (Barnett, 2018;Bennett, 1998Bennett, , 2000Kahl, 2018;Lawton, 892 M. E. Betton, J. R. Branston and P. R. Tomlinson Rajwani and Minto, 2018;Rajwani, Lawton and Phillips, 2015;Spillman, 2018), there is comparatively less research into their role as a conduit for disseminating information among their members, or their relationship with smaller firms. fire-safety requirements).…”

Section: Source Of Knowledgementioning

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Managerial Hubris, Trade Associations and Regulatory Knowledge in Micro‐Firms

Betton

Branston

Tomlinson

2018

British J of Management

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To avoid breaking the law for regulatory non-compliance, it is essential that micro-firm owner-managers are aware of deficiencies in their knowledge, so that they can seek improvement and avoid over-confidence (i.e. hubris) in their knowledge levels. Using newly collected survey data from micro-firms in the English accommodation sector and multivariate techniques, the authors explore the possibility of hubris by making a novel distinction between the Perceived-Knowledge and Actual-Knowledge of regulation held by micro-firm owner-managers. Both Perceived-Knowledge (from self-assessment) and Actual-Knowledge (from a simple test) over four core areas of regulation are found to be different, generally poor and suggestive of hubris. The relationship between these knowledge levels is further explored by considering the role of trade association membership (since they support members) and attitude (since it effects learning). Attitude is found to be positively associated with both forms of knowledge, while trade association memberships are also found to be associated with enhanced Perceived-Knowledge, but not Actual-Knowledge. In light of the results, the authors suggest several priority areas for improving Actual-Knowledge and self-assessment skills, and areas for future research.

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Meta-Organization Matters

Cited by 31 publications

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Health or Politics? Organizational Maintenance in the AAFP

Health or Politics? Organizational Maintenance in the AAFP

Value-independent Third-party Orchestrators as Catalysts of Business Collaboration

Managerial Hubris, Trade Associations and Regulatory Knowledge in Micro‐Firms

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