Alternating between Partial and Complete Organization: The Case of Anonymous
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Organization outside Organizations: The Abundance of Partial Organization in Social Life. ed. / Göran Ahrne; Nils Brunsson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. p. 318-333.
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TY - CHAP
T1 - Alternating between Partial and Complete Organization
T2 - The Case of Anonymous
AU - Schoeneborn, Dennis
AU - Dobusch, Leonhard
PY - 2019/7
Y1 - 2019/7
N2 - This chapter is concerned with further advancing a process perspective on partial organization. More specifically, we address the question of how the different organizational elements of partial organization (i.e. membership, hierarchy, rules, monitoring, and sanctions) interrelate dynamically. Based on the emerging ‘communication as constitutive of organization’ (CCO) perspective in organization studies, we argue that social collectives can alternate between states of organizational ‘partialness’ and ‘completeness’ over time. The temporary and situational completion of partial organization can occur in and through communicative events that demonstrate and ‘celebrate’ a social collective’s ability to mobilize all five elements simultaneously. We illustrate our theoretical considerations by drawing on selected findings from an earlier empirical case study of the hacktivist collective Anonymous.
AB - This chapter is concerned with further advancing a process perspective on partial organization. More specifically, we address the question of how the different organizational elements of partial organization (i.e. membership, hierarchy, rules, monitoring, and sanctions) interrelate dynamically. Based on the emerging ‘communication as constitutive of organization’ (CCO) perspective in organization studies, we argue that social collectives can alternate between states of organizational ‘partialness’ and ‘completeness’ over time. The temporary and situational completion of partial organization can occur in and through communicative events that demonstrate and ‘celebrate’ a social collective’s ability to mobilize all five elements simultaneously. We illustrate our theoretical considerations by drawing on selected findings from an earlier empirical case study of the hacktivist collective Anonymous.
KW - Management studies
KW - anonymous
KW - communicative constitution of organization
KW - hacktivism
KW - Organizationality
KW - partial organization
KW - process perspective
U2 - 10.1017/9781108604994.015
DO - 10.1017/9781108604994.015
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9781108474986
SP - 318
EP - 333
BT - Organization outside Organizations
A2 - Ahrne, Göran
A2 - Brunsson, Nils
PB - Cambridge University Press
CY - Cambridge
ER -