Using a positive lens to explore social change and organizations : building a theoretical and research foundation / / edited by Karen Golden-Biddle, Jane E. Dutton.

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Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
Series:Organization and management series
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Physical Description:xxx, 514 p. :; ill.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The call : why a book now on using a positive lens to explore social change and organizations? / Jane E. Dutton, Karen Golden-Biddle, and Elana Feldman
  • Change agency
  • Social change agency under adversity : how relational processes (re)produce hope in hopeless settings / Oana Branzei
  • Being a positive social change agent through issue selling / Scott Sonenshein
  • Social entrepreneurs, socialization processes, and social change : the case of sekem / Tomislav Rimac, Johanna Mair, and Julie Battilana
  • Power beyond the purse : philanthropic foundations as agents of social change / Debra Meyerson and Laura Wernick
  • Revealing themes : applying a positive lens to the chapters on change agency / Erica L. Steckler and Jean M. Bartunek
  • Environment and sustainability
  • Hybrid organizations as agents of positive social change : bridging the for-profit and non-profit divide / Andrew J. Hoffman, Krista K. Badiane, and Nardia Haigh
  • Agency and innovation in a phase of turbulent change : conservation in the Great Bear rainforest / Darcy Riddell, Ola Tjornbo, and Frances Westley
  • Practicing sustainability : a generative approach to change agency / Martha S. Feldman
  • Connecting sustainability movements and enterprises in developing economies : building networks and capabilities / Paola Perez-Aleman
  • Revealing themes : applying a positive lens to the chapters on environment and sustainability / Jennifer Howard-Grenvil
  • Health care
  • Hope as generative dynamic in transformational
  • Change : creating and sustaining "collaborative care" in the care health system / Karen Golden-Biddle and Kathryn Correia
  • Promoting positive change in physician-administrator relationships : the importance of identity security in managing intractable identity conflicts / Michael G. Pratt, C. Marlene Fiol, Edward J. O'Connor, and Paul Panico
  • Amplifying resources and buffering demands : how managers can support front line staff in
  • Loving action for each child / Rebecca Wells
  • Generative change in health care organizations : co-creating health to reduce health disparities / Valerie Myers and Lynn Perry Wooten
  • Revealing themes : applying a positive lens to the chapters on health care / Trish Reay
  • Poverty and low-wage work
  • Positive organizational change by and for the working poor / Carrie R. Leana and Ellen Ernst Kossek
  • Building organizations to change communities : educational entrepreneurs in poor urban areas / Christine M. Beckman and Brooking Gatewood
  • Navigating change in the company of (dissimilar) others : co-developing relational capabilities with microcredit clients / Lisa Jones Christensen
  • The stranger as friend : loan officers and positive deviance in microfinance / Rodrigo Canales
  • Revealing themes : applying a positive lens to the chapters on poverty and low-wage work / Jone L. Pearce
  • The response : what does this book contribute to the understanding of social change and
  • Organizations? / Karen Golden-Biddle, Jane E. Dutton, and Elana Feldman.