“…When deductively coding our data, we, for example, used the concept of partial organization (Ahrne & Brunsson, 2011) and its five organizational elements (membership, hierarchy, rules, monitoring, and sanctions). As partial organization is closely related to meta-organizations and their structure (Ahrne et al, 2016b;Berkowitz & Souchaud, 2019;Grothe-Hammer et al, 2022), we used it as a tool to identify continuity and change across AlphA and BetA's organizational structures. For instance, informants referred to the use of consensus as a mode of decision-making, which we related to the organizational element of Hierarchy in Ahrne and Brunsson's terms as a first-order category.…”