Oligarchy, Iron Law of

Leach, Darcy K.

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“…For example, scholars have explored how the hierarchic trends can be prevented through shared leadership (Pansera & Rizzi, 2020; Sutherland et al, 2014) and collective decision-making schemes (Jaumier, 2017; Kokkinidis, 2015a; Storey et al, 2014; Sutherland et al, 2014). In addition, several authors have highlighted sharing of information and knowledge as a necessary condition for effective self-management (e.g., Bernstein, 1976; Cornforth, 1995; Errasti et al, 2016; Leach, 2015; Rothschild-Whitt, 1976). This may be facilitated, for example, by implementing job rotation schemes and regular sharing of expertize as a way to limit the centralization of power (Cornforth, 1995; Kokkinidis, 2015b; Rothschild-Whitt, 1976).…”

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Resisting the Tide: The Roles of Ideology in Sustaining Alternative Organizing at a Self-managed Cooperative

Soetens

Huybrechts

2022

Journal of Management Inquiry

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This paper examines how organizational ideology can be collectively mobilized to sustain an alternative organizational form—a self-managed cooperative—in resistance to institutional prescriptions perceived as hostile. Based on an ethnographic study of the Venezuelan cooperative Cecosesola, we identify three roles through which ideology enables the reproduction of the alternative form over time: ideology as a mobilizing normative framework to justify resistance; as a cultural-cognitive framework to engage members and integrate them into the resistance project; and as a regulatory framework ensuring member compliance. However, we find that in parallel with sustaining self-management as an alternative form, mobilizing ideology may also paradoxically entail costs in terms of individual sacrifices, exclusion of members and reduction of group heterogeneity, leading to the creation of an authoritarian system. These findings shed light on the ideological drivers of institutional resistance and bring new insights to understand the challenge of sustaining self-management and other alternative organizational forms within a hostile institutional context.

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Resisting the Tide: The Roles of Ideology in Sustaining Alternative Organizing at a Self-managed Cooperative

Soetens

Huybrechts

2022

Journal of Management Inquiry

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The Process of Becoming Prefigurative: Fighting for Organizational Values to Transform Organizational Structures

Kaufmann,

Danner-Schröder

2024

Journal of Management Inquiry

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This study analyzes how contemporary collectives that grow fast in scale organize their actions. We conducted a qualitative study of the largest contemporary social movement FridaysForFuture. Our findings reveal that the collective was calling others for change, but their own structures and values only become prefigurative over time. In the beginning, FFF set up hierarchical structures by orienting towards past patterns of actions. This was not a rational planned consideration but a quick response to the overwhelming increase in membership. However, as hierarchical structures have naturally emerged, the collective began to fight against the very same structures because they seemed to be unfitting their collective value “basic democracy.” Hence, they turned towards the future to imagine alternative patterns of actions, fighting against the initial hierarchical structure for a flatter heterarchy. Our findings contribute to research on collective action by highlighting the process of becoming prefigurative.

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A Mistrustful Society?

Horáková

2020

The International Journal of Social Quality

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The level of trust in politicians also in government institutions is taken as an indicator of the state of society in general. Various studies have shown that the population of the Central Eastern European countries, and especially the citizens of the Czech Republic, lack trust in state institutions and democratic structures. The trust of the Czech population in government institutions is, compared to other (Western) European countries, at a relatively low level. This article aims to discuss different factors that are currently influencing this lack of trust: the historical, cultural, and institutional. The empirical data for this article is based on the European Values Study and Czech surveys of public opinion concerning trust in government institutions.

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Oligarchy, Iron Law of

Cited by 3 publications

References 28 publications

Resisting the Tide: The Roles of Ideology in Sustaining Alternative Organizing at a Self-managed Cooperative

Resisting the Tide: The Roles of Ideology in Sustaining Alternative Organizing at a Self-managed Cooperative

The Process of Becoming Prefigurative: Fighting for Organizational Values to Transform Organizational Structures

A Mistrustful Society?

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