Organizational Dimensions of
Global Change
is the first book in a new
series designed to facilitate an emergent dialogue around the issue of global change and
cooperative potential, across disciplines and national boundaries. Written by an
interdisciplinary group of leading scholars, the book explores how organizational
scholarship and thinking can inform an understanding of global change issues and examines
the potential of cooperation as a practice, an organizing accomplishment, and a value for
understanding issues of global change. It opens up conversations and research paths and
addresses basic questions such as. What do we mean by global change research? What can
organizational scholarship contribute to understanding the human dimensions of global
change? If we were to offer a priority agenda for research and inquiry, what questions
would we be asking? What kinds of research would have a high probability of making a large
contribution to knowledge as well as a timely relevance for action? Topics discussed
include global women leaders, corporations as agents of global change, international
networking, the development of global environmental regimes, and collaborative knowledge
creation.
Organizational Dimensions of
Global Change is an essential resource for students and scholars in the fields of
organization and management science, policy studies, international relations and
development studies, and earth systems science, as well as the disciplines of sociology,
economics, anthropology, political science, and psychology.
404 pages