Natural Resource Management in the U.S. Arctic: Sustainable Organizing Through Communicative Practices
This study advances a theoretical framework of sustainable organizing, grounded in the communicative practices of key organizational actors. I situate this study in the enactment of natural resource management (NRM) in the U.S. Arctic, drawing on qualitative fieldwork and in-depth interviews. The th...
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crsagepubl:10.1177/0893318918755971 2023-05-15T14:55:19+02:00 Natural Resource Management in the U.S. Arctic: Sustainable Organizing Through Communicative Practices Mitra, Rahul Wayne State University Wayne State University 2018 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0893318918755971 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0893318918755971 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full-xml/10.1177/0893318918755971 en eng SAGE Publications http://journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license Management Communication Quarterly volume 32, issue 3, page 398-430 ISSN 0893-3189 1552-6798 Strategy and Management Communication journal-article 2018 crsagepubl https://doi.org/10.1177/0893318918755971 2022-04-14T04:50:53Z This study advances a theoretical framework of sustainable organizing, grounded in the communicative practices of key organizational actors. I situate this study in the enactment of natural resource management (NRM) in the U.S. Arctic, drawing on qualitative fieldwork and in-depth interviews. The theoretical framework hinges on four iterative sensitizing concepts—stakeholder embeddedness in local–global ecologies, constitutive role of d/Discourse, rhetoric–practice tensions, and systemic risk–resilience—that guided data analysis. Findings revealed that participants communicatively constituted NRM in terms of structural challenges and best practices. NRM’s structural challenges were rooted in discursive closure of key perspectives through past events, routinization, and design; othering of important stakeholders; and framing institutional tension as conflict. Nevertheless, participants emphasized key decision-making, relationship-building, and risk-managing clusters that enabled NRM best practices benefiting both human and natural stakeholders. The empirical study thus extends the proposed theoretical framework by demonstrating context-specific practices that enact sustainable organizing. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic SAGE Publications (via Crossref) Arctic Management Communication Quarterly 32 3 398 430 |
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This study advances a theoretical framework of sustainable organizing, grounded in the communicative practices of key organizational actors. I situate this study in the enactment of natural resource management (NRM) in the U.S. Arctic, drawing on qualitative fieldwork and in-depth interviews. The theoretical framework hinges on four iterative sensitizing concepts—stakeholder embeddedness in local–global ecologies, constitutive role of d/Discourse, rhetoric–practice tensions, and systemic risk–resilience—that guided data analysis. Findings revealed that participants communicatively constituted NRM in terms of structural challenges and best practices. NRM’s structural challenges were rooted in discursive closure of key perspectives through past events, routinization, and design; othering of important stakeholders; and framing institutional tension as conflict. Nevertheless, participants emphasized key decision-making, relationship-building, and risk-managing clusters that enabled NRM best practices benefiting both human and natural stakeholders. The empirical study thus extends the proposed theoretical framework by demonstrating context-specific practices that enact sustainable organizing. |
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Natural Resource Management in the U.S. Arctic: Sustainable Organizing Through Communicative Practices |
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