Using a positive lens to explore social change and organizations
Subtitle: building a theoretical and research foundation
By: editors, Karen Golden-Biddle, Jane Dutton
Series: Organization and management series
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415878852; 9780415878869
Subjects: Organizational change; Social policy; Social change; Sustainable development
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: 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; title: Change agency; title: Social change agency under adversity : how relational processes (re)produce hope in hopeless settings / Oana Branzei; title: Being a positive social change agent through issue selling / Scott Sonenshein; title: Social entrepreneurs, socialization processes, and social change : the case of sekem / Tomislav Rimac, Johanna Mair, and Julie Battilana; title: Power beyond the purse : philanthropic foundations as agents of social change / Debra Meyerson and Laura Wernick; title: Revealing themes : applying a positive lens to the chapters on change agency / Erica L. Steckler and Jean M. Bartunek; title: Environment and sustainability; title: 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; title: Agency and innovation in a phase of turbulent change : conservation in the Great Bear rainforest / Darcy Riddell, Ola Tjörnbo, and Frances Westley; title: Practicing sustainability : a generative approach to change agency / Martha S. Feldman; title: Connecting sustainability movements and enterprises in developing economies : building networks and capabilities / Paola Perez-Aleman; title: Revealing themes : applying a positive lens to the chapters on environment and sustainability / Jennifer Howard-Grenvil; title: Health care; title: Hope as generative dynamic in transformational; title: Change : creating and sustaining "collaborative care" in the care health system / Karen Golden-Biddle and Kathryn Correia; title: 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; title: Amplifying resources and buffering demands : how managers can support front line staff in; title: Loving action for each child / Rebecca Wells; title: Generative change in health care organizations : co-creating health to reduce health disparities / Valerie Myers and Lynn Perry Wooten; title: Revealing themes : applying a positive lens to the chapters on health care / Trish Reay; title: Poverty and low-wage work; title: Positive organizational change by and for the working poor / Carrie R. Leana and Ellen Ernst Kossek; title: Building organizations to change communities : educational entrepreneurs in poor urban areas / Christine M. Beckman and Brooking Gatewood; title: Navigating change in the company of (dissimilar) others : co-developing relational capabilities with microcredit clients / Lisa Jones Christensen; title: The stranger as friend : loan officers and positive deviance in microfinance / Rodrigo Canales; title: Revealing themes : applying a positive lens to the chapters on poverty and low-wage work / Jone L. Pearce; title: The response : what does this book contribute to the understanding of social change and; title: Organizations? / Karen Golden-Biddle, Jane E. Dutton, and Elana Feldman.