Frame Decoupling for Organizational Change

Meyer, Michelle A.; Cross, Jennifer E.; Byrne, Zinta S.

doi:10.1177/1086026615623587

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“…I compared the similarities and differences of individual maps to integrate them into collective maps; this method is used in other studies (e.g., Hockerts, 2015; Meyer et al, 2016). Thus, as an upfront finding, I developed two pairs of cognitive maps of poverty that differ in content and structure.…”

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Cognitive Frames of Poverty and Tension Handling in Base-of-the-Pyramid Business Models

Grimm

2020

Business & Society

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Base-of-the-pyramid (BOP) business models aim to achieve profitability and poverty reduction by including poor people into corporate value chains. This goal duality creates tensions. Actors’ responses to these tensions are influenced by their cognitive frames of the phenomena building the tension. Applying a cognitive perspective, I investigate how corporate actors with different frames of poverty respond proactively or defensively to the poverty–profitability tension by adapting business model elements. I find that proactive and defensive responses differ for actors holding different cognitive frames of poverty. The responses have consequences for the poverty impact potential of BOP business models.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Cognitive Frames of Poverty and Tension Handling in Base-of-the-Pyramid Business Models

Grimm

2020

Business & Society

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“…A particularly important point for our study is that activity frames, as well as their associated norms, can locally be more or less dominant or established, but that their status in relation to other activity frames in the framing repertoire is also the subject of continuous negotiation (Kaplan, 2008; Meyer et al, 2016; Snow et al, 1986). Because activity frames have normative implications, participants are not disinterested in how their joint activities are framed.…”

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How do students negotiate groupwork? The influence of group norm exercises and group development norms

Hagvall Svensson,

Johansson,

Adawi

2024

J of Engineering Edu

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BackgroundGroup norms in engineering education groupwork are usually negotiated in an implicit and often unequal manner. Although it is regularly suggested that student groups can function better if norm negotiations are, instead, made explicit, the social dynamics of group norm exercises have remained underexplored.PurposeWe investigate how students negotiate group norms in group norm exercises, including the different understandings of groupwork that they construct and draw from to facilitate their negotiations.MethodWe recorded and analyzed a sequence of three group norm exercises focused on developing a team charter, with seven participating student groups. Drawing on framing theory, we study negotiation sequences in terms of framing practices, and understandings of groupwork in terms of activity frames.ResultsOur findings suggest that group norm exercises can help students to coordinate their expectations and transform previously established norms. However, they may also be approached in such a way that students are discouraged from questioning established group norms, instead resolving disagreement by simply rejecting alternative perspectives. We introduce the term “group development norms” to explain these dynamics, showing that the question of how to develop group norms is in itself a subject for negotiation.ConclusionsProviding a forum and process is neither enough to ensure reflective and equitable negotiations nor transparent and inclusive group norms. To avoid that group norm exercises simply reaffirm dominant norms, students should be provided with explicit negotiation strategies and, ideally, direct facilitation.

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“…Importantly, studies have shown not only that distinct frames can be created but also that conflict can occur when these different frames meet. Meyer, Cross, and Byrne (2016) studied the "framing contests" that occurred between actors in a school district organization that undertook a "green building" initiative to build an environmentally responsible and resource-efficient building. These contests were resolved by decoupling the frames, for example by separating environmental concerns from other concerns, and extending the central frame to one of "high performance building," which did not privilege one set of stakeholder concerns over others.…”

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The Role of Language in Organizational Sensemaking: An Integrative Theoretical Framework and an Agenda for Future Research

Whittle

Vaara

Maitlis

2023

Journal of Management

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Despite the rapid growth of research on organizational sensemaking and an acknowledgment of the critical role of language in the sensemaking process, the literature on sensemaking and language is fragmented. In particular, there is no systematic review that explains the roles and functions of different linguistic elements in meaning construction. The purpose of this review paper is to develop an integrative theoretical framework that organizes existing research in a way that allows us to better understand how different linguistic processes shape the construction of meaning in sensemaking. First, we explain how a cognitive linguistic perspective elucidates how language provides the cognitive associations, schema, and frames used in sensemaking. Second, we discuss how a focus on the social practices of language use, as in rhetorical, narrative, or interactionist approaches, illuminates the patterns of meaning-making among organizational members in social interaction. Third, we explain how a focus on discourse helps us to understand how discursive structures enable or constrain sensemaking and thereby reproduce or transform systems of thought. This leads us to turn to the differences in these perspectives and suggest how they can be brought together in an integrative theoretical framework. Finally, we discuss the contributions of our framework and propose an agenda for future research focusing on the multifaceted role of language in sensemaking, intertextual and multimodal links in the language of sensemaking, the agentic and structural role of language in sensemaking, episodic and latent aspects of language use in sensemaking, and the role of power in discursive sensemaking.

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Frame Decoupling for Organizational Change

Cited by 10 publications

References 53 publications

Cognitive Frames of Poverty and Tension Handling in Base-of-the-Pyramid Business Models

Cognitive Frames of Poverty and Tension Handling in Base-of-the-Pyramid Business Models

How do students negotiate groupwork? The influence of group norm exercises and group development norms

The Role of Language in Organizational Sensemaking: An Integrative Theoretical Framework and an Agenda for Future Research

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