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Chapter 13 From Stakeholders to Communities of Care

  • Marco Checchi and George Kokkinidis
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The Handbook of Organizing Economic, Ecological and Societal Transformation
This chapter is in the book The Handbook of Organizing Economic, Ecological and Societal Transformation

Abstract

This chapter focuses on two case studies in Greece and the UK to show the necessity to rethink the idea of stakeholders in organizational settings that explicitly aim to be radically transformative. Alternative organizations, like those discussed in this chapter, reconfigure distinct and potentially conflicting interests from a perspective of care that transforms the practices and the subjectivities at stake within and around organizations. The idea of care and caring is central to our analysis, and we look at it not as a private affair or an ethical matter, but as a central organizational principle that is fundamentally collective and political. We draw on data collected through a range of qualitative methodologies to explore the repoliticization of care and the reconfiguring of stakeholders into careholders by looking at alternative practices of organizing where different stakeholders within and outside the organization deliberately engage with the underlying and structural power relations that define their relevant positionalities. We illustrate how the overcoming of a traditional stakeholders’ approach passes through the emerging of an alternative diagram of power, a set of affective relations reconfigured through performative intra-actions between the members of these communities, their discourses, their practices, the multiple materialities that constitute these spaces.

Abstract

This chapter focuses on two case studies in Greece and the UK to show the necessity to rethink the idea of stakeholders in organizational settings that explicitly aim to be radically transformative. Alternative organizations, like those discussed in this chapter, reconfigure distinct and potentially conflicting interests from a perspective of care that transforms the practices and the subjectivities at stake within and around organizations. The idea of care and caring is central to our analysis, and we look at it not as a private affair or an ethical matter, but as a central organizational principle that is fundamentally collective and political. We draw on data collected through a range of qualitative methodologies to explore the repoliticization of care and the reconfiguring of stakeholders into careholders by looking at alternative practices of organizing where different stakeholders within and outside the organization deliberately engage with the underlying and structural power relations that define their relevant positionalities. We illustrate how the overcoming of a traditional stakeholders’ approach passes through the emerging of an alternative diagram of power, a set of affective relations reconfigured through performative intra-actions between the members of these communities, their discourses, their practices, the multiple materialities that constitute these spaces.

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Contents V
  3. List of Contributors IX
  4. Part One: By Way of Introduction
  5. Chapter 1 Organizing Economic, Environmental and Societal Transformation: An Introduction 1
  6. Chapter 2 Transformation: For Whom, By Whom, Where, Why and When? 27
  7. Part Two: Opening Up Futures
  8. Chapter 3 Post-anthropocentric Transformations of Consumption in the Anthropocene: Beyond the Nature-Culture Divide 49
  9. Chapter 4 ‘Organising Social Impact’ Master’s Programme as ‘Critical Praxis’ to Transform the University and Society 69
  10. Chapter 5 Futures: Necessity, Experiment and the School for Organizing 87
  11. Part Three: Techno-economic Transformations at Work
  12. Chapter 6 The Social Construction of Digital Technologies: The Politics behind Technology-centered Transformations 103
  13. Chapter 7 The Transformation of Work in the Digital Age: Coworking Spaces as Community-Based Models of Work Organization 125
  14. Chapter 8 Organizing Around Affect: Control and Potentiality in Contemporary Capitalism 145
  15. Part Four: Sustainable Environmental Transformation
  16. Chapter 9 Systemic Risks and Organizational Challenges in Transformative Processes: ‘Cybersecurity’ in the Food Field 165
  17. Chapter 10 Uniting the Means and Ends of Degrowth Transformation 189
  18. Chapter 11 Economic Organizations and the Transformation Towards Degrowth 209
  19. Part Five: Radical Democratic Futures
  20. Chapter 12 Organizing for Social Transformation from Below: Prefigurative Organizing and Civic Action 235
  21. Chapter 13 From Stakeholders to Communities of Care 257
  22. Chapter 14 The Possibilities of Radical Democratic Management 275
  23. Chapter 15 Searching for Transformative Potential: Comparing Conceptualizations of Open, Inclusive and Alternative Organizations 295
  24. Index 315
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110986945-013

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Contents V
  3. List of Contributors IX
  4. Part One: By Way of Introduction
  5. Chapter 1 Organizing Economic, Environmental and Societal Transformation: An Introduction 1
  6. Chapter 2 Transformation: For Whom, By Whom, Where, Why and When? 27
  7. Part Two: Opening Up Futures
  8. Chapter 3 Post-anthropocentric Transformations of Consumption in the Anthropocene: Beyond the Nature-Culture Divide 49
  9. Chapter 4 ‘Organising Social Impact’ Master’s Programme as ‘Critical Praxis’ to Transform the University and Society 69
  10. Chapter 5 Futures: Necessity, Experiment and the School for Organizing 87
  11. Part Three: Techno-economic Transformations at Work
  12. Chapter 6 The Social Construction of Digital Technologies: The Politics behind Technology-centered Transformations 103
  13. Chapter 7 The Transformation of Work in the Digital Age: Coworking Spaces as Community-Based Models of Work Organization 125
  14. Chapter 8 Organizing Around Affect: Control and Potentiality in Contemporary Capitalism 145
  15. Part Four: Sustainable Environmental Transformation
  16. Chapter 9 Systemic Risks and Organizational Challenges in Transformative Processes: ‘Cybersecurity’ in the Food Field 165
  17. Chapter 10 Uniting the Means and Ends of Degrowth Transformation 189
  18. Chapter 11 Economic Organizations and the Transformation Towards Degrowth 209
  19. Part Five: Radical Democratic Futures
  20. Chapter 12 Organizing for Social Transformation from Below: Prefigurative Organizing and Civic Action 235
  21. Chapter 13 From Stakeholders to Communities of Care 257
  22. Chapter 14 The Possibilities of Radical Democratic Management 275
  23. Chapter 15 Searching for Transformative Potential: Comparing Conceptualizations of Open, Inclusive and Alternative Organizations 295
  24. Index 315
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