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Spark : igniting organizational change through a planetary mindset / Marc Thompson.
De Gruyter Bristol University Press/Policy Press Complete eBook-Package 2026 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thompson, Marc, 1962- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Organizational change.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (227 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2026.
- Summary:
- A fresh, sustainability-focused take on building organizations.In a world facing growing social, political and environmental challenges, our organizations are no longer serving us well.This book offers a fresh framework for rethinking organizations.
- Contents:
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- About the Author
- 1 Introduction and Overview of the Book
- Why existing responses are not enough
- Lough Neagh: a microcosm of our organizing failure
- What this book offers: a generative dynamics framework for planetary flourishing
- The framework
- Purposing: misaligned ends and fragmented values
- Democratizing: silenced voices and excluded stakeholders
- Commoning: from private asset to planetary commons
- Co-operating: fragmented action and missing coordination
- How the generative dynamics framework sparks change
- Overview Chapter 2 - Igniting Change through a Planetary Mindset
- Chapter 3 - How Tensions, Contradictions and Paradoxes Spark Change
- Chapter 4 - On Purpose
- Chapter 5 - Purposing
- Chapter 6 - Democratizing
- Chapter 7 - Co-operating
- Chapter 8 - Commoning
- Chapter 9 - Spark: Planetary Imaginaries
- Chapter 10 - Spark: Experimental Spaces
- Chapter 11 - Conclusion
- 2 Igniting Change through a Planetary Mindset
- The philosophical foundation
- The scientific foundation
- Systems thinking
- Planetary mindset: values and ethics
- Developing inner values for a planetary mindset
- Mental development and a planetary mindset
- Cognitive barriers to developing a planetary mindset
- Dropping one's tools
- Integrating the building blocks of a planetary mindset
- Conclusion
- 3 How Tensions, Contradictions and Paradoxes Spark Change
- Why tensions, contradictions and paradoxes can spark change
- Defining the terminology used in the book
- Traditional modes of thinking about organizational change are limiting and increasingly unhelpful
- Growth, efficiency and the paradoxes of modern capitalism
- From paradox mindset to dialectical change
- The promise of dialectics.
- The power of discourse to resolve dialectical conflict
- The power of frames: organized contestation
- Productive tensions within the generative dynamics framework
- Purposing versus legacy identity and economic imperatives
- Democratizing versus hierarchy and managerial control
- Co-operating versus competitive advantage logics
- Commoning versus private ownership and extractive models
- The planetary mindset as the multiplier of tensions
- 4 On Purpose
- How we think about purpose today
- Thames Water: purpose down the drain?
- Traditional schools of thought on purpose
- The inside-out, duty perspective
- The outside-in, goal perspective
- From purpose to purposing
- Purposing and the planetary mindset
- Purposing and values
- 5 Purposing
- Purposing and democratizing
- Purposing and democratic governance
- Soci é t é à mission
- Patagonia, trusts and nature
- Ben &
- Jerry's: a governance innovation for sustainability?
- Rights of nature model
- Purposing and co-operating
- 6 Democratizing
- Democratizing organizations
- Democratizing: arguments for
- Democratizing: arguments against
- Efficiency
- Transition
- Democratizing: the voice of nature
- Democratizing sustainability
- Democratizing sustainability transitions: a typology
- 7 Co-operating
- Why co-operating matters
- Co-operating as a biological and cultural inheritance
- Co-operating through the lens of the generative dynamics framework
- Co-operating and purposing
- Co-operating and democratizing
- The renewable energy sector
- Co-operating at scale
- 8 Commoning
- Framing the commons
- The idea of the future commons
- Future commons: water
- Applying the generative dynamics framework to the Terrassa water case
- Future commons: food.
- Future commons: digital and artificial intelligence
- The corporation as a future commons?
- 9 Spark: Planetary Imaginaries
- The power of stories
- Two futures, one data centre, one river
- The current neoliberal technocratic imaginary
- Future imaginary: the watershed commons
- The cultural underpinning of imaginaries
- The space imaginary: astro-frontier versus planetary stewardship
- Cultural engines of imaginaries: arts, stories and moral imagination
- Olafur Eliasson: Future Assembly
- Cooking Sections
- FutureFarmers
- Radical hope and imaginaries
- 10 Spark: Experimental Spaces
- Experimental spaces are multidimensional
- Experimental spaces as engines of the planetary commons
- Designing experimental spaces for planetary health using the generative dynamics
- Principle 1: Designing for planetary purposes
- Principle 2: Stewardship of the future commons
- Principle 3: Democratizing as polycentric, justice-oriented governance
- Principle 4: Co-operating as multi-scalar learning for a planetary commons
- Principle 5: The planetary mindset as the ontological shift experimental spaces require
- The relational infrastructure supporting experimental spaces
- Navigating tensions in experimental spaces
- 11 Conclusion
- Corporations
- Governments
- Universities
- Civil society
- Notes
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 5
- Chapter 6
- Chapter 7
- Chapter 8
- Chapter 9
- Chapter 10
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Thompson, Marc Spark
- ISBN:
- 9781529226737
- OCLC:
- 1593366215
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