Another World is Possible, It's Already Here: A Review and Research Agenda on Alternative Organizing

Devi Vijay (), Héloïse Berkowitz (), Benjamin Huybrechts, Luc Audebrand, Marcos Barros and Marianna Fotaki
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Devi Vijay: IIM Calcutta
Héloïse Berkowitz: LEST - Laboratoire d'Economie et de Sociologie du Travail - AMU - Aix Marseille Université - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, AMU - Aix Marseille Université
Benjamin Huybrechts: IÉSEG School Of Management [Puteaux], LEM - Laboratoire d'Economie et de Management - UNS - Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (1965 - 2019) - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - UniCA - Université Côte d'Azur
Luc Audebrand: ULaval - Université Laval [Québec]
Marcos Barros: EESC-GEM Grenoble Ecole de Management
Marianna Fotaki: WBS - Warwick Business School - University of Warwick [Coventry]

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Abstract: Amidst multiple crises on a planetary scale, alternative organizing offers plural possibilities for reconfiguring societal relations and bringing into being a more liveable world. Despite growing interest, the literature on alternative organizing remains fragmented, marked by a narrow and selective integration of disciplinary and geographic knowledge communities. This fragmentation leads to ambiguities and contradictions in concepts and theory development. To address these issues, we review 50 years of research on alternative organizing, following three steps. First, we map the genealogy of research on alternative organizing, identify its relations with institutional orders, and distinguish key perspectives. Second, we develop an integrative framework that (a) identifies three constitutive dimensions of alternative organizingimaginaries, alterity, and subjectivities; and (b) synthesizes the processes, frictions, and outcomes for societal transformation. Drawing on this framework, we suggest avenues to attune to the ways alternative organizing unsettles dominant orders and cultivates the present and future, other-wise.

Keywords: Alternative organizing; Alternative organization; Imaginaries; alterity; Subjectivity; Friction; Societal transformation; Social order; Institutional order; institutions; Prefiguration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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