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From A Clash Of Social Orders To A Loss Of Decidability In Meta-Organizations Tackling Grand Challenges: The Case Of Japan Leaving The International Whaling Commission

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Meta-organizations are crucial devices to tackle grand challenges. Yet, by bringing together different organizations, with potentially diverging views on these grand challenges, meta-organizations need to cope with the emergence of contradictory underlying social orders. Do contradictory orders affect meta-organizations’ ability to govern grand challenges and if so, how? This article investigates these essential questions by focusing on the evolution and intermeshing of social orders within international governance meta-organizations. Focusing on the International Whaling Commission and the grand challenge of whale conservation, we show how over time incompatible social orders between the meta-organization and its members emerge, evolve and clash. As our study shows, this clash of social orders ultimately removes the ‘decidability’ of certain social orders at the meta-organizational level. We define decidability as the possibility for actors to reach collective decisions about changing an existing social order that falls under a collective’s mandate. We argue that maintaining decidability is a key condition for grand challenges’ governance success while the emergence of ‘non-decidability’ of controversial social orders can lead to substantial failure. We contribute to both the emerging literature on grand challenges and organization theory.
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Héloïse Berkowitz, Michael Grothe-Hammer. From A Clash Of Social Orders To A Loss Of Decidability In Meta-Organizations Tackling Grand Challenges: The Case Of Japan Leaving The International Whaling Commission. Research in the Sociology of Organizations (Collection : Organizing for Societal Grand Challenges), 2022, 79, pp.115-138. ⟨10.1108/S0733-558X20220000079010⟩. ⟨halshs-03271137⟩
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