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This book is the first in a new series designed to facilitate an emergent dialogue around the issues of global change and cooperative potential. Written by an interdisciplinary group of leading scholars, it explores how organizational scholarship and thinking can lead to a greater understanding of global issues. Topics discussed include: global women leaders; corporations as agents of global change; international networking; the development of global environmental regimes and collaborative knowledge creation.
Not on our Watch: The Biodiversity Crisis and Global Collaboration Response
Not on our Watch: The Biodiversity Crisis and Global Collaboration Response
This chapter concerns a particular kind of crisis and the human and organizational capacities best designed to address it. The focus is on a network of scientists and managers centrally preoccupied with the problem of conserving endangered species. This group, all members of the Conservation Breeding Specialist Group, a nongovernmental organization (NGO) based in Minnesota, forms an international network working separately and together to fight the ever-increasing speed of extinctions threatening biodiversity on this planet. As such, they represent an example of a new form of organization, the global social change organization (GSCO).
This chapter will explore a number of theoretical questions. The first is ...
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