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Héloïse BerkowitzPublished On
2026-02-12Page Range
pp. 71–92Language
- English
Print Length
22 pages
5. Meta-Organizations as Spaces for (Counter)-Hegemonic Dynamics
Chapter of: A Society of Meta-Organizations(pp. 71–92)
There is a dark side of meta-organizations, as they may create and maintain unfair global social orders while escaping responsibility. In this chapter, I start from imperatives and paradoxes of social orders and meta-organizations. I then show how meta-organizations and macro-organizations may produce and maintain unfair social orders, creating organizational monsters and developing hegemonic strategies. Lastly, I explore some conditions under which meta-organizations can on the contrary constitute spaces of counter-hegemonic collaborations.
Contributors
Héloïse Berkowitz
(author)Research Fellow at Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique et Technologique
Senior Researcher at Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals
Dr Héloïse Berkowitz is a research fellow at CNRS (LEST, Aix Marseille University), France and senior researcher at IBEI, Spain. She holds a Phd in management science from Ecole Polytechnique and a research habilitation (HDR) from Aix Marseille Univ. Her research deals with transitions to sustainability, with a focus on sectoral governance and collective action among organizations (meta-organizations), in various empirical settings from natural resources to collaborative economy or ocean sustainability. She co-founded the Peer Community in Organization Studies. In 2022, she received the CNRS medal of Bronze for her work on meta-organization and socio-ecological transitions.