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FROM THE DIALECTIC TO THE DIALOGIC: GENERATIVE ORGANIZING FOR SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION – A COMPARATIVE CASE STUDY IN INDIA

Poonamallee, Latha
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1145044613

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2006, Doctor of Philosophy, Case Western Reserve University, Organizational Behavior.
The dissertation examines generative capacities and generative organizing for social transformation from a global-critical-organizationalperspective. It is a comparative case study of three social experiments in India, all of which are focused on creating sustainable alternatives for local livelihood. The first case features a successful social transformation through reclamation of traditional environment management methods and creation of parallel governing structures for the ‘commons’. The second case is an attempt by an elected village leader to create a sustainable and locally networked economic model that he hopes can become a viable model for rural India. The third case, a corporate consortium in India has formed a livelihood advancement school for urban, underprivileged youth and places them in jobs thus opening doors to the new economy. However, they vary in terms of structural characteristics occupying unique spaces in a shared post colonial context. This study makes a number of contributions to our field:1) substantive - it brings marginal perspectives to mainstream conversation and moves toward mitigating the ethnocentric imbalance of our field; 2) paradigmatic – based on Hindu philosophy it offers a framework for holistic ontology that transcends the dualistic ontological conceptions of subjectivity-objectivity; 3) epistemological-theoretical, it presents a dialogic framework for studying change, bringing together the much polarized discourses of change-continuity, structure-agency, cooperation-conflict, internal-external sources of change, long term-short term, and output-process and proposes that generative capacities of organizations rest on the interplay between these polarized entities that are conceived of as foundational elements of change phenomena; 4) theoretical-practical - it presents an exposition of Generative Organizing as the interplay between intentional and emergent organizing for change; 5) methodological – it locates itself in an innovative social ontology called Site Ontology (Schatzki, 2002), uses the practice- arrangements bundle as the level of analysis and offers a conceptual framework for conducting multi-level research to examine complex social phenomena; and 6) pedagogic – this dissertation challenges conventional, polarized and simplistic theorizing of organizational life and argues that if education should simultaneously fulfill the functions of preparing individuals for meaningful employment as well as progressive and cosmopolitan citizenship, it is important to bring critical thinking back into our curricula.
Fry Ronald (Advisor)
282 p.
social change; organizing; critical management studies; generative organizing; qualitative research method; post colonialism

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  • Poonamallee, L. (2006). FROM THE DIALECTIC TO THE DIALOGIC: GENERATIVE ORGANIZING FOR SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION – A COMPARATIVE CASE STUDY IN INDIA [Doctoral dissertation, Case Western Reserve University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1145044613

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Poonamallee, Latha. FROM THE DIALECTIC TO THE DIALOGIC: GENERATIVE ORGANIZING FOR SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION – A COMPARATIVE CASE STUDY IN INDIA. 2006. Case Western Reserve University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1145044613.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Poonamallee, Latha. "FROM THE DIALECTIC TO THE DIALOGIC: GENERATIVE ORGANIZING FOR SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION – A COMPARATIVE CASE STUDY IN INDIA." Doctoral dissertation, Case Western Reserve University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1145044613

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