Organizational imaginaries : tempering capitalism and tending to communities through cooperatives and collectivist democracy

Our everyday lives are structured by the rhythms, values, and practices of various organizations, including schools, workplaces, and government agencies. These experiences shape common-sense understandings of how ';best' to organize and connect with others. Today, for-profit managerial fir...

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Other Authors Chen, Katherine K. (Editor), Chen, Victor Tan (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2021.
SeriesResearch in the sociology of organizations ; v. 72.
Subjects
Cooperative societies.
Business & Economics > Organizational Development.
Organizational theory & behaviour.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781838679910
DOI10.1108/S0733-558X202172
Physical Description1 online resource (xx, 311 pages).

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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. "What if" and "If only" futures beyond conventional capitalism and bureaucracy: imagining collectivist and democratic possibilities for organizing / Katherine K. Chen and Victor Tan Chen
  • Part I. Working: enacting collectivist-democratic practices through everyday interactions
  • Chapter 2. The emotional dynamics of workplace democracy: emotional labor, collective Eefervescence, and commitment at work / Katherine Sobering
  • Chapter 3. Resisting work degeneration in collectivist-democratic organizations: craft ethics in a French cooperative sheet-metal factory / Stéphane Jaumier and Thibault Daudigeos
  • Part II: Networking: connecting communities through collectivist-democratic practices
  • Chapter 4. Moral community as a yardstick for alternative organizations: evaluating employee ownership and its place within the socioeconomic order / Jonathan Preminger
  • Chapter 5. The iron cage has a Mezzanine: collectivist-democratic organizations and the selection of isomorphic pressures via meta-organization / Carla Ilten
  • Chapter 6. A matrix form of multi-organizational hybridity in a cooperative-union venture / James M. Mandiberg and Seon Mi Kim
  • Practitioner perspective
  • Chapter 7. Economic democracy, embodied: a union co-op strategy for the long-term care sector / Sanjay Pinto
  • Part III. Reworking: challenging and transforming capitalist economies through collectivist-democratic practices
  • Chapter 8. Organizational infrastructures for economic resilience: alternatives to shareholder value-oriented corporations and unemployment trajectories in the U.S. during the Great Recession / Marc Schneiberg
  • Chapter 9. It takes more than a village: the creation and expansion of alternative organizational forms in Brazil / M. Paola Ometto, Asma Zafar, and Leanne Hedberg
  • Chapter 10. Ownership and mission drift in alternative enterprises: the case of a social banking network / Jason Spicer and Christa R. Lee-Chuvala Epilogue
  • Chapter 11. Participatory democratic organizations everywhere: a harbinger of social change? / Joyce Rothschild.

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