Management and conservation at the International Whaling Commission: A dichotomy sandwiched within a shifting baseline

Vernazzani, Bárbara Galletti; Burkhardt‐Holm, Patricia; Cabrera, Elsa; Iñiguez, Maura Sara Castañeda; Luna, Fábia de Oliveira; Parsons, E. C. M.; Ritter, Fabian; Rodríguez-Fonseca, J.; Sironi, Mariano; Stachowitsch, Michael

doi:10.1016/j.marpol.2017.06.004

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Organizational perspectives on sustainable ocean governance: A multi-stakeholder, meta-organization model of collective action

2020

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Although scholars have thoroughly explored theories and practices of formal and informal governance for oceans, most of the research has concentrated on interactions among individuals, or organizations within a sector. The emerging literature from management science argues that meta-organizations, organizations which members are themselves organizations, and especially cross-sectoral meta-organizations, may be a critical concept for scientists, public decision makers, managers, local communities and other actors in ocean governance. A meta-organization's main attributes (i.e., bringing together different formal organizations, consensus-based decision making process, little to no hierarchy, diversity of membership, information-production and collective capacity building and self-regulation mechanisms) can foster critically necessary collaborative behaviors among competitors and across sectors. Here we review key concepts regarding meta-organizations, study six examples of meta-organizations in marine systems, and outline how these advances in management and policy could foster cooperation rather than competition within and among sectors in ocean governance. Meta-organization thinking therefore can help us understand, but also frame and encourage, cross-sectoral collective actions that are solutions-oriented.

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Organizational perspectives on sustainable ocean governance: A multi-stakeholder, meta-organization model of collective action

2020

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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 Commission

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Grothe‐Hammer²

2022

Organizing for Societal Grand Challenges

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Meta-organizations are crucial devices to tackle grand challenges. Yet, by bringing together different organizations, with potentially diverging views on these grand challenges, meta-organizations need to cope with the emergence of contradictory underlying social orders. Do contradictory orders affect meta-organizations' ability to govern grand challenges and if so, how? This paper investigates these essential questions by focusing on the evolution and intermeshing of social orders within international governance metaorganizations. Focusing on the International Whaling Commission and the grand challenge of whale conservation, we show how over time incompatible social orders between the meta-organization and its members emerge, evolve and clash. As our study shows, this clash of social orders ultimately removes the "decidability" of certain social orders at the meta-organizational level.

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Management and conservation at the International Whaling Commission: A dichotomy sandwiched within a shifting baseline

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Organizational perspectives on sustainable ocean governance: A multi-stakeholder, meta-organization model of collective action

Organizational perspectives on sustainable ocean governance: A multi-stakeholder, meta-organization model of collective action

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 Commission

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