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SUMMARY:Shaz Ansari on 'Constructing a Climate Change Logic: An Institutio
 nal Perspective on the "Tragedy of the Commons"' - Judge-Us Seminar 
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DESCRIPTION:Instead of our usual seminar\, we suggest attending this talk 
 at the Judge Business School LT2\n\nAbstract:(Paper forthcoming in Organiz
 ation Science)\n\nDespite increasing interest in transnational fields\, tr
 ansnational commons have received little attention. In contrast to economi
 c models of commons\, which argue that commons occur naturally and are pro
 ne to collective inaction and tragedy\, we introduce a social construction
 ist account of commons. Specifically\, we show that actor-level frame chan
 ges can eventually lead to the emergence of an overarching\, hybrid 'commo
 ns logic' at the field level. These frame shifts enable actors with differ
 ent logics to reach a working consensus and avoid "tragedies of the common
 s." Using a longitudinal analysis of key actors' logics and frames\, we tr
 acked the evolution of the global climate change field over forty years. W
 e bracketed time periods demarcated by key field-configuring events\, docu
 mented the different frame shifts in each time period\, and identified fiv
 e mechanisms (collective theorizing\, issue linkage\, active learning\, le
 gitimacy seeking\, and catalytic amplification) that underpin how and why 
 actors changed their frames at various points in time - enabling them to m
 ove towards greater consensus around a transnational commons logic. In con
 clusion\, the emergence of a commons logic in a transnational field is a n
 on-linear process and involves satisfying three conditions: 1) key actors 
 view their fates as being interconnected with respect to a problem issue\;
  2) these actors perceive their own behavior as contributing to the proble
 m\; and 3) they take collective action to address the problem. Our finding
 s provide insights for multinational companies\, nation-states\, non-gover
 nmental organizations\, and other stakeholders in both conventional and un
 conventional commons.\n
LOCATION:Judge Business School\, LT2
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