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In the face of escalating political crises and institutional upheavals, leaders are encountering unprecedented challenges and uncertainty daily. Understanding how emotions and values shape societies is now more crucial than ever. Emotions play a significant role in influencing engagement and resistance towards established norms and values, while values govern emotional reactions, mobilize actions, and strengthen institutional work and social connections. This open-access handbook offers a comprehensive interplay between emotions and values within organizational institutionalism, highlighting their essential roles in shaping organizational dynamics and evolution of organizational life. Drawing upon cutting-edge research, the handbook examines how emotions and values emerges within institutions, interact, and operate as significant drivers of action and practice across various organizational contexts.
Sommario
Introduction.- 1. Introduction to Emotions and Values in Organizational Institutionalism.- Part 1. The emotions and values in the institutional context.- 2. Inhabiting the heart of a crossroad: the intersection of values, emotions and institutional logics.- 3. From value infusion to evaluative embodiment: Integrating emotions to values-centric institutionalism.- 4. Overarching values: the pivotal role of organizational values in navigating uncertainty.- 5. How institutions feel: Toward an institutional logics approach to emotions.- 6. Institutional leadership, values and emotions.- Part 2. Emotions and Values: A Focused Exploration.- 7. Archiving academic melancholia.- 8. Intellectual Freedom and the Dissolution of Values in Academia.- 9. Cycles of Passivity: How Mainstreamers Unwittingly Enable Erosion of Democracy.- 10. From Shame to Hate: The Role of Stories in Constructing a Hate Habitus.- 11. Fighting for Good: Values and Emotions in Purpose-driven Organizing.- 12. Institutionalization of compassion through values work.- 13. Artificial Empathy: Evaluating AI Emotional Support Systems in Organizations.- 14. Polarization in Social Media: An Emotion-Symbolic Work Perspective.- 15. Finding the Middle Ground: the role of (mis)understanding in creating a shared world of concern.- Part 3. Practicing Emotions and Values in Context.- 16. Benevolence and Inequality: The Ethics of Moral Indebtedness.- 17. Boys with Braids: Values, Emotion, and Body Work Intertwined.- 18. Organizing for belonging: The case of a religious organization.- 19. What are we doing? This is so wrong! The role of emotions and values in institutional innovation.- 20. Creating a community pollinator garden: Values and emotion work in a grassroots initiative.- 21. Emotional Maturity, moral maturity and values of emerging leaders in workplace environments.- 22. Executive Decision-Making in the Face of Competing Demands: The Role of Emotions and Values.- Part 4. Rethinking Methodologies and Practices.- 23. Field Research Approaches for Studying Values and Emotions: Centering Theory, Phenomenon or Personhood.- 24. Navigating Doubt: Emotional Complexity in Child Sexual Abuse Casework.- 25. From concern to redemption: Exploring emotional arcs of social entrepreneurs Ted Talks.- 26. Epilogue. Integration of emotions and values in organizational life.
Info autore
Gry Espedal
is a Professor at VID Specialized University, Norway. She has published extensively on topics such as values work, institutional logics, and the interplay between narratives, values, practices, and emotions.
Trish Ruebottom
is an Associate Professor at McMaster University’s DeGroote School of Business, Canada. She focuses on social innovation, stigma, moral emotions, and their impacts on entrepreneurship, especially concerning marginalized industries.
Marta Struminska-Kutra
is a Professor at both VID Specialized University and Kozminski University, Poland. She investigates social and sustainable innovation, governance of sustainable transitions, and organizational learning in public administration.
Jose Bento da Silva
is an Associate Professor at Warwick Business School, UK. He examines how concepts like ambiguity and temporality enhance our understanding of social and institutional order through historical and ethnographic studies.
Douglas Creed
is Professor Emeritus at the University of Rhode Island, USA, and a fellow at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He researches identity and embodiment within institutional processes and the dynamics of contested institutional change.
Riassunto
In the face of escalating political crises and institutional upheavals, leaders are encountering unprecedented challenges and uncertainty daily. Understanding how emotions and values shape societies is now more crucial than ever. Emotions play a significant role in influencing engagement and resistance towards established norms and values, while values govern emotional reactions, mobilize actions, and strengthen institutional work and social connections. This open-access handbook offers a comprehensive interplay between emotions and values within organizational institutionalism, highlighting their essential roles in shaping organizational dynamics and evolution of organizational life. Drawing upon cutting-edge research, the handbook examines how emotions and values emerges within institutions, interact, and operate as significant drivers of action and practice across various organizational contexts.
