Organizational Dimensions of Global Change: No Limits to Cooperation

by David L. Cooperrider (Editor), Jane E. Dutton (Editor)

Overview

This book is the first in a new series designed to facilitate an emergent dialogue around the issues of global change and cooperative potential. Written by an interdisciplinary group of leading scholars, it explores how organizational scholarship and thinking can lead to a greater understanding of global issues.

Topics discussed include: global women leaders; corporations as agents of global change; international networking; the development of global environmental regimes and collaborative knowledge creation.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761915294
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	04/29/1999
Series:	Human Dimensions of Global Change series , #122
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	424
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.95(d)

Table of Contents

No Limits to Cooperation - David L Cooperrider and Jane E Dutton
An Introduction to the Organization Dimensions of Global Change
PART ONE: SENSEMAKING AND GLOBAL CHANGE
Sensemaking as an Organizational Dimension of Global Change - Karl E Weick
Constructionist Leadership in the Global Relational Age - Kathryn M Kaczmarski and David L Cooperrider
The Case of the Mountain Forum
‘Not on Our Watch' - Frances Westley
The Biodiversity Crisis and Global Collaboration Response
Global Change as Contextual Collaborative Knowledge Creation - Ramkrishnan V Tenkasi and Susan Albers Mohrman
PART TWO: COLLABORATION AND PARTNERSHIP ARRANGEMENTS: THE STRUCTURES OF GLOBAL CHANGE
Social Capital, Mutual Influence and Social Learning in Intersectoral Problem-Solving in Africa and Asia - L David Brown and Darcy Ashman
Transnational and International Social Movements in a Globalizing World - Mayer N Zald
Creating Culture, Creating Conflict
The Development of Global Environmental Regimes - Barbara Gray
Organizing in the Absence of Authority
International Networking - Julie Fisher
The Role of Southern NGOs
Constructing and Deconstructing Global Change Organizations - John D Aram
PART THREE: SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONISM AND GLOBAL CHANGE
Global Organization and the Potential for Ethical Action - Kenneth J Gergen
Global Technoscapes and Silent Voices - Raza A Mir, Marta B Calás and Linda Smircich
Challenges to Theorizing Global Cooperation
From a Dominant Voice toward Multivoiced Cooperation - René Bouwen and Chris Steyaert
Mediating Metaphors for Global Change
Global Women Leaders - Nancy J Adler
A Dialogue with Future History
Corporations as Agents of Global Sustainability - Stuart L Hart
Beyond Competitive Strategy

Editorial Reviews

". . . a useful survey of the field. It explores the vast terrain of global change and proposes a large variety of concepts that could be applicable to global change organizations. The book provides fertile ground for theorizing and pursuing research. . ."

Mansour Javidan

This is the first volume in a new series designed to facilitate a dialogue around the issue of global change and cooperative potential, across disciplines and national boundaries. Explores how organizational scholarship can inform an understanding of global change issues and examines the potential of cooperation as a practice, an organizing accomplishment, and a value for understanding issues of global change. Topics discussed include global women leaders, corporations as agents of global change, and international networking. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknew.com)

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