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TOC Outline

1. Cover
2. Title page
3. Copyright
4. Table of Contents
5. List of Illustrations
6. List of Tables
7. Epigraph
8. Acknowledgments
9. Preface
10. 1. Why Study Meta-Organizations?
    1. The context
    2. Motivations of the book: A distinctive meta-organizational approach
11. 2. Meta-Organization as an Important Empirical Phenomenon in Contemporary Societies
    1. Meta-organizations are everywhere and are numerous
    2. Analysing the diversity of meta-organizations
    3. The significance of meta-organizations for contemporary societies: Roles and activities of meta-organizations
    4. Conclusion
12. 3. The Conceptual Specificities of the Society of Meta-Organizations
    1. Why do meta-organizations matter as a dedicated concept?
    2. Methodological challenges of studying meta-organizations
    3. Developing a meta-organizational analytical perspective
    4. Conclusion
13. 4. Theorizing Meta-Organizations and Social Orders
    1. The decisional perspective on social orders
    2. From infra- to (meta-)organizationality: An integrated framework
    3. Conclusion
14. 5. Meta-Organizations as Spaces for (Counter)-Hegemonic Dynamics
    1. Imperatives and paradoxes of meta-organizations and transformations of social orders
    2. Meta-organization, macro-organization and the proliferation of ‘organizational monsters’
    3. Shifting paradigms and imagining alternatives
    4. Conclusion
15. 6. Meta-Organizations and the Transformations of Social Orders
    1. The manifestations and consequences of meta-organizational proliferation
    2. Meta-organizing sustainable transformations of social orders in territories
    3. Decisional and alternative organizing among organizations
    4. Conclusion
16. Partial Glossary of Concepts
17. References
18. Index
19. About the Team
20. This book need not end here…
21. You may also be interested in:
22. Back cover

Headings Outline

• A SOCIETY OF META-ORGANIZATIONS
• A Society of Meta-Organizations
  • Héloïse Berkowitz
• Table of Contents
• List of Illustrations
• List of Tables
• Acknowledgments
• Preface
• 1. Why Study Meta-Organizations?
  • The context
  • Motivations of the book: A distinctive meta-organizational approach
    • A different theoretical view on organized collaboration among organizations
    • A different perspective on societal transformations
    • Objective and structure of the book.
• 2. Meta-Organization as an Important Empirical Phenomenon in Contemporary Societies
  • Meta-organizations are everywhere and are numerous
    • The qualitative importance of meta-organizations
    • How about quantitative evidence?
  • Analysing the diversity of meta-organizations
    • Variations in types and size of member organizations
    • Variations in membership composition
    • Perimeters of mandates: Scale and scope
    • Perimeters of issues: Specificity, specialization and sectoralization
    • A variety of configurations
  • The significance of meta-organizations for contemporary societies: Roles and activities of meta-organizations
    • Activities of meta-organizations and their effects on society
    • Logics of actions in meta-organizations
  • Conclusion
• 3. The Conceptual Specificities of the Society of Meta-Organizations
  • Why do meta-organizations matter as a dedicated concept?
    • What exactly is the status of the concept?
  • Methodological challenges of studying meta-organizations
  • Developing a meta-organizational analytical perspective
    • Analysis of evolutionary dynamics
    • Combining meta-organization with other concepts or literatures
  • Conclusion
• 4. Theorizing Meta-Organizations and Social Orders
  • The decisional perspective on social orders
    • Meta-organizations: The social order perspective
    • A decisional organization theory, or decisionalism
    • Decisionalism, co-dependence and relationality
  • From infra- to (meta-)organizationality: An integrated framework
    • Meta-organizationality
    • Integrating all dimensions
  • Conclusion
• 5. Meta-Organizations as Spaces for (Counter)-Hegemonic Dynamics
  • Imperatives and paradoxes of meta-organizations and transformations of social orders
  • Meta-organization, macro-organization and the proliferation of ‘organizational monsters’
    • Creating, maintaining and resisting social order
  • Shifting paradigms and imagining alternatives
    • From transformative meta-organizations…
    • …To heterotopias and counter-hegemonic meta-organizations
  • Conclusion
• 6. Meta-Organizations and the Transformations of Social Orders
  • The manifestations and consequences of meta-organizational proliferation
  • Meta-organizing sustainable transformations of social orders in territories
  • Decisional and alternative organizing among organizations
  • Conclusion
• Partial Glossary of Concepts
• References
• Index
• About the Team
• This book need not end here…
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