Abstract In the digital age, interactions among heterogenous actors are increasingly mediated by platforms. While sustainability‐oriented platforms (SODPs) have potential to accelerate sustainability through increased connectivity, knowledge sharing, and co‐creation, they also a dark side, leading unexpected tensions paradoxical effects that may risk creation of value for societal actors. Understanding how can be designed stimulate fruitful participants without succumbing their is still an...

Abstract One approach for tackling grand challenges that is gaining traction in recent management literature robust action: by allowing diverse stakeholders to engage with novel ideas, initiatives can cultivate successful ideas yield greater impact. However, a potential pitfall of action the length time it takes generate momentum. Crowdsourcing, we argue, valuable tool scale generation impact from action. We studied an award‐winning environmental sustainability crowdsourcing initiative and...

This paper offers a framework for examining the relationship between social, instrumental, and technological determinants of participation through social media (Dahlberg, 2004) using discursive approach based in concepts frames framing (Goffman, 1974; Snow & Benford, 1992). We apply our multideterminant to investigate participatory dynamics on YouTube case climategate. Our interpretive analysis videos comments shows how public responses climategate were scripted around 3 dominant master...

Orchestrating open innovation initiatives characterized by frequent changes in stakeholders and activities can be a daunting task. As these need to adapt the constantly changing requirements of process, they benefit from an organizing approach that enables direct participation stakeholders, not only process but also its orchestration. Building on constitutive view organizing, we argue interactions among various orchestrated complemented elements closure. However, determining when how deploy...

At the centre of undeniably contentious debates about climate change lies question authority: Which voices will be heard and, thus, who influence policy, activism, and scientific inquiry? Following high-profile errors found in Fourth Assessment Report Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Dutch Parliament sought to achieve ‘balance’ these by bringing together scientists skeptics for a set online discussions. Using both communication dialectical theorizing, we explore organizing...

In this paper, we investigate how the use of mobile technologies contributes to emergence a complementary control system, in which both employee autonomy and management are enhanced. We apply an affordance lens understand affordances (and constraints) for that emerge by employees managers. Based on qualitative case study implementation Sales Force Automation tool at multinational company, identify three informational analyse these were actualised enhance autonomy. Our extant literature...

Climate change and imagined futures are intricately linked, discussed by policy-makers reported in the media. In this article we focus on construction of future expectations press coverage 1992 2012 United Nations conferences Rio de Janeiro British Dutch national newspapers. We use a novel combination methods, semantic co-word networks metaphor analysis, to study futures. Our findings show that between there was an overall shift from future-oriented hope past-oriented disappointment...

Article Mixed reality environments in stroke rehabilitation: Development as rehabilitation tools was published on January 1, 2007 the journal International Journal Disability and Human (volume 6, issue 1).

I articulate and employ a situational boundary-making approach to study the emergence of organization technology at shelter during Hurricane Katrina. My analysis qualitative data shows how emergent occurred as entanglements consisting three main elements: salient moment in time, key actors, practices. Key actors’ responses moments time enacted both distinction dependency between organizational technological resulting divided organization. This extends approaches by showing are situationally...

Tackling grand challenges calls for collaborative innovation approaches that can gather various stakeholders around a common goal. One such approach receiving growing scholarly attention is crowdsourcing. By enabling crowds to collaboratively share and integrate their knowledge, perspectives, partial solutions, crowdsourcing changes the role of ordinary people from passive receivers active creators innovative solutions addressing challenges. However, our understanding knowledge sharing...

Recent theorizing in Science and Technology Studies (STS) has taken a “performance” turn. Performative approaches theorize how meaning matter relate the context of situated practices. Scholars organizational communication have also turned to relationship between organization. In this article, I bring together these two strands offer unique lens study materiality as process (dis)organization. Through an empirical analysis academic technology organization, illustrate “performance...

A growing number of organizations pledge to ideals openness in their organizing processes. However, such attempts increase through greater inclusion and transparency often fail practice. Using the constitutive view openness, we seek unravel how interaction between modes closure shapes open as it unfolds over time. Analyzing an award-winning initiative, show four types legitimate closures are used sustain across Against these observations, propose a process model punctuated which is...

A growing number of organizations pledge to ideals openness in their organizing processes. However, such attempts increase through greater inclusion and transparency often fail practice. Using the constitutive view openness, we seek unravel how interaction between modes closure shapes open as it unfolds over time. Analyzing an award-winning initiative, show four types legitimate closures are used sustain across Against these observations, propose a process model punctuated which is...

Generating long-lasting impact through social innovation requires that solutions are implemented in the setting and ingrained routines, relationships, beliefs of local actors. This may be accomplished by involving actors reinventing solution during implementation to ensure their needs demands adequately addressed. However, such involvement necessitate new which, turn, surface tensions need reconciled. Using translation theory as an analytical lens, we study micro-practices open 'black box'...