Obstacles to collective action during a crisis: A meta‐organizational perspective

dc.contributor.authorHartwell, Christopher A.en
dc.contributor.authorLawton, Thomas C.en
dc.contributor.authorTingbani, Ishmaelen
dc.date.accessioned2023-10-12T15:23:46Z
dc.date.available2023-10-12T15:23:46Z
dc.date.issued2023-07-28en
dc.description.abstractMeta‐organizations form to advance collective action. But collective action can be more difficult to coordinate for meta‐organizations comprising governmental agencies or sovereign states, with system‐level objectives often conflicting. These challenges can be more binding during a crisis, where the responses called for are outside of the original reason for the meta‐organization's existence. We advance a framework for conceptualizing meta‐organizations that focuses on both internal attributes and external perceptions and suggests how each may help or hinder meta‐organization influence during a crisis. Using as a case study the response of the European Union (EU) to COVID‐19 and, specifically, to air travel restrictions at the outbreak of the pandemic, we show how meta‐organizations can have difficulties in responding expeditiously to crises, particularly when encountering contradictory system‐level goals. We argue that meta‐organizations must plan for crises during less turbulent times, developing the processes that contribute to the gradual creation of new system‐level goals.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.citationHartwell, C. A., Lawton, T. C. and Tingbani, I. (2023) 'Obstacles to collective action during a crisis: A meta-organizational perspective', European Management Review. doi: 10.1111/emre.12596en
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/emre.12596en
dc.identifier.eissn1740-4762en
dc.identifier.issn1740-4754en
dc.identifier.journaltitleEuropean Management Reviewen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/15115
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherJohn Wiley & Sons, Inc.en
dc.rights© 2023, the Authors. European Management Review published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of European Academy of Management (EURAM). This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en
dc.subjectCollective actionen
dc.subjectCOVID-19en
dc.subjectCrisisen
dc.subjectEuropean Unionen
dc.subjectMeta-organizationen
dc.titleObstacles to collective action during a crisis: A meta‐organizational perspectiveen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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