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

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.

Organizational Dimensions of Global Change is the first book in a new series designed to facilitate, across discipline and national boundaries, an emergent dialogue around the issue of global change and cooperative potential. Written by an interdisciplinary group of leading scholars, the book explores how organizational scholarship and thinking can inform an understanding of global change issues and examines the potential of cooperation as a practice, an organizing accomplishment, and as a value for understanding issues of global change. It opens up conversations and research paths and addresses basic questions such as: What do we mean by global change research? What can organizational scholarship contribute to understanding the human dimensions of global change? If we were to offer a priority agenda for research and inquiry, what questions would we be asking and what kinds of research would have a high probability of making a large contribution to knowledge as well as a timely relevance for action? Topics discussed include global women leaders, corporations as agents of global change, international networking, the development of global environmental regimes, and collaborative knowledge creation. Organizational Dimensions of Global Change is an essential resource for students and scholars in the fields of organization and management science, policy studies, international relations and development studies, earth systems science, as well as the disciplines of sociology, economics, anthropology, political science, and psychology.