Redefining success in organizing towards degrowth

In order to untangle the meaning of success, or rather, thriving, for community-based initiatives (CBIs) that embody and prefigure degrowth, we bring sustainability transition, prefigurative politics, and degrowth scholarships in conversation with group facilitation practice and living systems theor...

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Autores: Sekulova, Filka, Anguelovski, Isabelle, Arguelles, Lucia
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:España
Institución:Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC)
Repositorio:O2, repositorio institucional de la UOC
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eist.2023.100764
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:sustainability transition
degrowth organizing
prefiguration
community-based initiatives
care
success
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Redefining success in organizing towards degrowth
title Redefining success in organizing towards degrowth
spellingShingle Redefining success in organizing towards degrowth
Sekulova, Filka
sustainability transition
degrowth organizing
prefiguration
community-based initiatives
care
success
title_short Redefining success in organizing towards degrowth
title_full Redefining success in organizing towards degrowth
title_fullStr Redefining success in organizing towards degrowth
title_full_unstemmed Redefining success in organizing towards degrowth
title_sort Redefining success in organizing towards degrowth
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Sekulova, Filka
Anguelovski, Isabelle
Arguelles, Lucia
author Sekulova, Filka
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Anguelovski, Isabelle
Arguelles, Lucia
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Arguelles, Lucia
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv sustainability transition
degrowth organizing
prefiguration
community-based initiatives
care
success
topic sustainability transition
degrowth organizing
prefiguration
community-based initiatives
care
success
description In order to untangle the meaning of success, or rather, thriving, for community-based initiatives (CBIs) that embody and prefigure degrowth, we bring sustainability transition, prefigurative politics, and degrowth scholarships in conversation with group facilitation practice and living systems theory. The article puts forward a model of organizational thriving grounded in the achievement of results while attending to organizational processes and members’ needs. We explore the trajectories of five CBIs located in the province of Barcelona (Spain), looking into the ways such model is reflected, performed, and experienced by each of these. A key insight of our nine-year research is that ‘care’ is core to success. Sustainability transition, and degrowth organizing thus need to acknowledge that ‘success’ does not only stem from the realization of tangible results but from the consideration of members’ needs and the quality of group communication, cohesion, inclusion and decision-making processes inasmuch as reaching targets.
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