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Suzana Braga Rodrigues - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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how organizations engage with external complexity a Political Action perspective
Organization Studies, 2011Co-Authors: John Child, Suzana Braga RodriguesAbstract:This paper offers a new insight into how organizations engage with external complexity. It applies a Political Action perspective that draws attention to the hitherto neglected question of how the relative power organizational leaders enjoy within their environments is significant for the Actions they can take on behalf of their organizations when faced with external complexity. It identifies cognitive and relational complexity as two dimensions of the environment with which organizations have to engage. It proposes three modes whereby organizations may engage with environmental complexity that are conditioned by an organization’s power within its environment. It also considers the intention associated with each mode, as well as the implications of these modes of engagement for how an organization can learn about its environment and for the use of rationality and intuition in its strategic decision-making. The closing discussion considers how this analysis integrates complexity and Political Action perspe...
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how organizations engage with external complexity a Political Action perspective
Organization Studies, 2011Co-Authors: John Child, Suzana Braga RodriguesAbstract:This chapter offers a new insight into how organizations engage with external complexity. It applies a Political Action perspective that draws attention to the hitherto neglected question of how the relative power organizational leaders enjoy within their environments is significant for the Actions they can take on behalf of their organizations when faced with external complexity. It identifies cognitive and relational complexity as two dimensions of the environment with which organizations have to engage. It proposes three modes whereby organizations may engage with environmental complexity that are conditioned by an organization’s power within its environment. It also considers the intention associated with each mode, as well as the implications of these modes of engagement on how an organization can learn about its environment and for the use of rationality and intuition in its strategic decision-making. The closing discussion considers how this analysis integrates complexity and Political Action perspectives in a way that contributes to theoretical development and provides the basis for a dynamic Political co-evolutionary approach.
Martijn Van Zomeren - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Political and Psychological Processes in Political Action
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics, 2020Co-Authors: Martijn Van ZomerenAbstract:Social change sometimes happens because groups in society make it happen. The social psychology of such “man-made” change in Political contexts studies the key psychological and Political processes that play an important role in driving such change. Theory and research have focused on Political processes as conditions that foster change but also on the psychological processes that describe how a structural potential for change translates into Political Action, which puts pressure on Political decision makers toward social change. This yields important scientific insights into how Political Action occurs and thus may affect Political decision making. As for Political processes, one relevant model is McAdam’s Political process model, which identifies a number of structural factors that increase the potential for Political Action to achieve social change. As for psychological processes, one relevant model is the Social Identity Model of Collective Action, which identifies a number of core motivations for Political Action, and which seeks to integrate psychological insights with Political models of social change. A joint discussion of these models offers hope and scope for further theoretical and empirical integration, as well as a broader and more comprehensive understanding of Political and psychological processes in Political Action toward social change.
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Building a Tower of Babel? Integrating Core Motivations and Features of Social Structure into the Political Psychology of Political Action
Political Psychology, 2016Co-Authors: Martijn Van ZomerenAbstract:The Political psychology of Political Action provides the potential for building bridges between scholars from different fields. The main aim of this article is to set some baby steps toward building two conceptual bridges by bringing together a core motivation approach to Political Action with core features of the social structure that embeds those core motivations. The first conceptual bridge relies on considering a broader motivational model than provided by rational actor or social identity approaches, whereas the second bridge relies on considering core features of the social structure as potentiating these core motivations for Political Action. More specifically, I first discuss definitions of Political Action. Second, I identify four converging themes across different literatures on collective Action, social movement participation, and voting turnout, resulting in a taxonomy of core motivations for Political Action (i.e., personal or group-based identity, efficacy, emotion, and moral motivations). Third, in a more explorative fashion I identify four core features of the social structure (ingroup, outgroup, interpersonal network, and institutional features), which I tentatively connect with the taxonomy of core motivations. Finally, I discuss the theoretical, empirical, and practical implications of this generalist, generative, and integrative perspective on Political Action.
John Child - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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how organizations engage with external complexity a Political Action perspective
Organization Studies, 2011Co-Authors: John Child, Suzana Braga RodriguesAbstract:This paper offers a new insight into how organizations engage with external complexity. It applies a Political Action perspective that draws attention to the hitherto neglected question of how the relative power organizational leaders enjoy within their environments is significant for the Actions they can take on behalf of their organizations when faced with external complexity. It identifies cognitive and relational complexity as two dimensions of the environment with which organizations have to engage. It proposes three modes whereby organizations may engage with environmental complexity that are conditioned by an organization’s power within its environment. It also considers the intention associated with each mode, as well as the implications of these modes of engagement for how an organization can learn about its environment and for the use of rationality and intuition in its strategic decision-making. The closing discussion considers how this analysis integrates complexity and Political Action perspe...
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how organizations engage with external complexity a Political Action perspective
Organization Studies, 2011Co-Authors: John Child, Suzana Braga RodriguesAbstract:This chapter offers a new insight into how organizations engage with external complexity. It applies a Political Action perspective that draws attention to the hitherto neglected question of how the relative power organizational leaders enjoy within their environments is significant for the Actions they can take on behalf of their organizations when faced with external complexity. It identifies cognitive and relational complexity as two dimensions of the environment with which organizations have to engage. It proposes three modes whereby organizations may engage with environmental complexity that are conditioned by an organization’s power within its environment. It also considers the intention associated with each mode, as well as the implications of these modes of engagement on how an organization can learn about its environment and for the use of rationality and intuition in its strategic decision-making. The closing discussion considers how this analysis integrates complexity and Political Action perspectives in a way that contributes to theoretical development and provides the basis for a dynamic Political co-evolutionary approach.
Jonathan Baron - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Consumer Attitudes About Personal and Political Action
Journal of Consumer Psychology, 1999Co-Authors: Jonathan BaronAbstract:People can express their moral views through their purchases or through Political Action. If a product is morally bad, or bad in other ways, people may refuse to purchase it for themselves, or they may take Political Action against it. Two questionnaire studies examined the determinants of attitudes toward these two types of Action. Both types of Action are affected by moral concerns. Political Actions are more affected by universalized moral concerns, in which people think that something is wrong for everyone regardless of whether they think it is wrong or not. Some moral principles are seen as absolute values, protected from trade-offs with other values. The studies also found evidence for moralization of many kinds of attributes, including some that affected only the buyer, particularly those that put the buyer at risk of harm.
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Political Action VERSUS VOLUNTARISM IN SOCIAL DILEMMAS AND AID FOR THE NEEDY
Rationality and Society, 1997Co-Authors: Jonathan BaronAbstract:Concerned citizens have two responses to situations that require sacrifice for the greater good, such as social dilemmas or provision of aid for the needy. One is voluntary sacrifice. The other is to take Political Action, in order to change the rules so that others will sacrifice in the same way. For a somewhat selfish and rational utilitarian, under specified assumptions, I show that Political Action is sometimes worthwhile and superior to voluntarism. This situation is more likely to obtain when the actor is moderately selfish (as opposed to being totally selfish or unselfish), and when: cost of Political Action is low; cost of cooperation is high; the situation involves aid for the needy and the proportion of potential beneficiaries is large; variability in willingness to cooperate is low; some people are already cooperating, but not too many; or the benefit/cost ratio of contributing increases with the number of contributors.
Mark Mattern - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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acting in concert music community and Political Action
Contemporary Sociology, 1999Co-Authors: Mark MatternAbstract:"A highly readable, innovative investigation of the potential Political implications of popular music." --Edwar Bryan Portis, Texas A&M University "Political science has too often ignored the critical Political dimensions of music in social life. Now Mark Mattern has given us a groundbreaking examination of the varied Political functions of populist musics--from social glue to social dynamite--as reflected in three fascinating, diverse, and disenfranchised case-study communities. Acting in Concert is, truly, music to intellectual ears." --George H. Lewis, author of Side Saddle on the Golden Calf: Social Structure and Popular Culture in America "Acting in Concert is a pioneering work that opens up new ways of thinking about the public dimensions of music. In an era when music is all too often packaged, standardized, and drained of energy and Political passion, Mattern shows through vivid case studies and probing discussion of large ideas like politics and community that people's participation in the creation and experience of music can be a vital resource for democracy." --Harry C. Boyte, coauthor of Building America In this lively account of politics and popular music, Mark Mattern develops the concept of "acting in concert," a metaphor for community-based Political Action through music. Through three detailed case studies of Chilean, Cajun, and American Indian popular music, Mattern explores the way popular muisicians forge community and lead members of their communities in several distinct kinds of Political Action that would be difficult or impossible among individuals who are not linked by communal ties. More than just entertainment, Mattern argues that popular music can serve as a social glue for bringing together a multitude of voices that might otherwise remain silent, and that Political Action through music can increase the potential for relatively marginalized people to choose and determine their own fate. Mark Mattern is an assistant professor of Political science at Chapman University, Orange, California.
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acting in concert music community and Political Action
Contemporary Sociology, 1999Co-Authors: Mark MatternAbstract:"A highly readable, innovative investigation of the potential Political implications of popular music." --Edwar Bryan Portis, Texas A&M University "Political science has too often ignored the critical Political dimensions of music in social life. Now Mark Mattern has given us a groundbreaking examination of the varied Political functions of populist musics--from social glue to social dynamite--as reflected in three fascinating, diverse, and disenfranchised case-study communities. Acting in Concert is, truly, music to intellectual ears." --George H. Lewis, author of Side Saddle on the Golden Calf: Social Structure and Popular Culture in America "Acting in Concert is a pioneering work that opens up new ways of thinking about the public dimensions of music. In an era when music is all too often packaged, standardized, and drained of energy and Political passion, Mattern shows through vivid case studies and probing discussion of large ideas like politics and community that people's participation in the creation and experience of music can be a vital resource for democracy." --Harry C. Boyte, coauthor of Building America In this lively account of politics and popular music, Mark Mattern develops the concept of "acting in concert," a metaphor for community-based Political Action through music. Through three detailed case studies of Chilean, Cajun, and American Indian popular music, Mattern explores the way popular muisicians forge community and lead members of their communities in several distinct kinds of Political Action that would be difficult or impossible among individuals who are not linked by communal ties. More than just entertainment, Mattern argues that popular music can serve as a social glue for bringing together a multitude of voices that might otherwise remain silent, and that Political Action through music can increase the potential for relatively marginalized people to choose and determine their own fate. Mark Mattern is an assistant professor of Political science at Chapman University, Orange, California.
