A review and provocation: On polarization and platforms

D Kreiss, SC McGregor - New Media & Society, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Scholars increasingly point to polarization as a central threat to democracy—and identify
technology platforms as key contributors to polarization. In contrast, we argue that …

One name for two concepts: A systematic literature review about meta‐organizations

P Coulombel, H Berkowitz - International Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Existing literature on meta‐organization is divided into two distinct streams in organizational
and management studies, with different definitions and boundaries, potentially leading to …

Decisional organization theory: Towards an integrated framework of organization

M Grothe-Hammer, H Berkowitz… - Research handbook on …, 2022 - elgaronline.com
Decisions are the cornerstone of many perspectives and theories of organization. Classical
contributions by Barnard (1938), or March and Simon (1958) and their subsequent work …

From a clash of social orders to a loss of decidability in meta-organizations tackling grand challenges: The case of Japan leaving the International Whaling …

H Berkowitz, M Grothe-Hammer - Organizing for societal grand …, 2022 - emerald.com
Meta-organizations are crucial devices to tackle grand challenges. Yet, by bringing together
different organizations, with potentially diverging views on these grand challenges, meta …

The organization of digital platforms: the role of digital technology and architecture for social order

D Ametowobla, S Kirchner - Zeitschrift für Soziologie, 2023 - degruyter.com
Digital platforms pervade contemporary societies, but sociology currently lacks a general
concept for investigating them. Platforms combine technology and organizational elements …

Ecologies of friction in digital platform investment

M Laamanen, K Mikołajewska-Zając - … , Communication & Society, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Digital platforms are underpinned by the ideal of a frictionless market, obscuring the
simultaneous practices of market monopolisation and the restriction of consumer choice and …

(Un-) sustainable transformations: everyday food practices in Italy during COVID-19

F Forno, M Laamanen, S Wahlen - Sustainability: Science, Practice …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
In this article, we study how the global pandemic has affected food practices. We underscore
how time, space, and modality as key facets of the everyday intersect with understandings …

Neo-materialist movement organisations and the matter of scale: scaling through institutions as prefigurative politics?

M Laamanen, F Forno, S Wahlen - Journal of Marketing …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Consumer collective action is commonly connected to individualised politics, market
responsibility and local utopias. In this paper, we take an alternative point of departure and …

Meta-organizations: A clarification and a way forward

H Berkowitz, N Brunsson, M Grothe-Hammer… - M@ n@ gement, 2022 - cairn.info
In this introduction, we reemphasize some key parts of meta-organization theory and their
implications for understanding meta-organizations and meta-organizing processes. We …

Unpacking Social Order: Toward a Novel Framework That Goes Beyond Organizations, Institutions, and Networks

M Grothe-Hammer, H Berkowitz - Critical Sociology, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
This article addresses one of the oldest, most fundamental questions: how social order
comes about. Many established conceptions of social order either tend to overemphasize …