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Generative Disruption: The Subversive Effects of Collaboration

Boland, Brodie James
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1386265167

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2014, Doctor of Philosophy, Case Western Reserve University, Organizational Behavior.
This dissertation is comprised of three studies, each of which investigates the relationship between collaborative processes and subversive outcomes. The motivating idea of these studies is that significant, transformative change does not only result from conflict and contention. Indeed, collaboration between different social actors – while perhaps superficially conciliatory or moderate – may even be more subversive and disruptive than its contentious counterpart. Study 1 explores this idea in the context of an economic development and sustainability effort in an American `rust belt’ city, generating propositions of the collaborative processes that social actors use to advance disruptive change. Study 2, a review of the modern environmental movement, catalogs the collaborative tactics used by environmental movement organizations, conceptualizing a `repertoire of collaboration’ by which movements provide instead of disrupt resources, normative sanction, and cognitive frames. Study 3 then quantitatively tests the relationship between collaboration and breakthrough environmental technology innovation using a large set of patent and firm data, showing that collaboration between inventors produces more breakthrough innovations. These studies illuminate collaboratively subversive tactics for social actors, and challenge the contentious assumptions prevalent in social theory.
David Cooperrider, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
Ron Fry, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
John Paul Stephens, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Jorge Rivera, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
186 p.
Management; Organization Theory; Organizational Behavior; Social Structure; Sociology
social movements, institutional theory, institutional entrepreneurship, sustainability, environmental technology, collaboration, structuration theory, change, liminality, hybridity, repertoires of collaboration

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  • Boland, B. J. (2014). Generative Disruption: The Subversive Effects of Collaboration [Doctoral dissertation, Case Western Reserve University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1386265167

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Boland, Brodie. Generative Disruption: The Subversive Effects of Collaboration . 2014. Case Western Reserve University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1386265167.

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  • Boland, Brodie. "Generative Disruption: The Subversive Effects of Collaboration ." Doctoral dissertation, Case Western Reserve University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1386265167

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