Call for Papers
Special Issue on "A World of Meta-Organizations: Dynamics and Complexities of Meta-Organizing"
M@n@gement
Guest Editors:
Michael Grothe-Hammer (Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg):
mgh@hsu-hh.de
Meta-organizations-that is, organizations that have organizations as their members-are an entrenched phenomenon of significant and increasing importance. Nowadays, there are hundreds of thousands of diverse meta-organizations: their number has been escalating and their forms have been evolving rapidly (Ahrne & Brunsson, 2008). Many meta-organizations gather firms (e.g. Global Business Initiative or Airlines for Europe), some gather sustainability standards and accreditation bodies (e.g. the standard association ISEAL), or a combination of universities, businesses, civil society initiatives in multi-stakeholder meta-organizations (e.g. Fair Labor Association). Sports associations are meta-organizations. All international governmental organizations, standards organizations or industry associations can be treated as meta-organizations. Associations of fab labs, living labs and cooperatives also constitute examples of meta-organizations. Hence, almost all individual-based organizations and virtually all states join multiple meta-organizations, thus meta-organizing their environment through several layers. The meta-organizational phenomenon appears therefore far-reaching and heterogeneous, playing various crucial roles in modern society but raising dramatic governance challenges, as the exemplar cases of the European Union or FIFA show.
This special issue wants to embrace and advance the work on meta-organizations. We welcome submissions on all aspects of meta-organization. Submissions can be theoretical, empirical, or methodological in nature.
Submission deadline for full papers is December 1st, 2019.
If you have an idea for a possible paper that may fit this call and would like to discuss it initially, do not hesitate in contacting one of the guest editors.
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Dr. Michael Grothe-Hammer
Helmut-Schmidt-Universität / Helmut Schmidt University
Institut für Gesellschaftswissenschaften / Institute of Social Sciences
Holstenhofweg 85
22043 Hamburg
Germany