ORGANIZATIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON OCEANS GOVERNANCE: META-ORGANIZATIONS AND CROSS-SECTORAL COLLECTIVE ACTION

Héloïse Berkowitz (), Larry Crowder and Cassandra Brooks
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Héloïse Berkowitz: TSM - Toulouse School of Management Research - UT Capitole - Université Toulouse Capitole - UT - Université de Toulouse - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - TSM - Toulouse School of Management - UT Capitole - Université Toulouse Capitole - UT - Université de Toulouse
Larry Crowder: Stanford University
Cassandra Brooks: University of Colorado [Boulder]

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Abstract: Although scholars have thoroughly explored theories and practices of formal and informal governance for oceans, most of the research has concentrated on interactions among individuals, or organizations within a sector. The emerging literature from management science argues that meta-organizations, organizations which members are themselves organizations, and especially cross-sectoral meta-organizations, may be a critical concept for scientists, public decision makers, managers, local communities and other actors in ocean governance. A meta-organization's main attributes (i.e., bringing together different formal organizations, consensus-based decision making process, little to no hierarchy, diversity of membership, information-production and collective capacity building and self-regulation mechanisms) can foster critically necessary collaborative behaviors among competitors and across sectors. Here we review key concepts regarding meta-organizations, study six examples of meta-organizations in marine systems, and outline how these advances in management and policy could foster cooperation rather than competition within and among sectors in ocean governance. Meta-organization thinking therefore can help us understand, but also frame and encourage, cross-sectoral collective actions that are solutions-oriented.

Keywords: ocean governance; conservation; meta-organization; management studies; coopetition; Meta-organization; partial organization; organization theory; marine ecosystem; self-governance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020-08
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Published in Marine Policy, 2020, 118, pp.104026. ⟨10.1016/j.marpol.2020.104026⟩

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DOI: 10.1016/j.marpol.2020.104026

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