Sürdürülebilirlik Anlatıları: Örgütler Arası Projelere Sosyal Yapılandırmacı Bir Bakış

Year 2022, Volume: 72 Issue: 2, 1001 - 1024, 18.01.2023

Alperen Manisalıgil Ümmügülsüm Aysan

https://doi.org/10.26650/ISTJECON2021-1121907

Abstract

Küresel sorunların çözümü için örgütler arası iş birliklerinin gereği, Birleşmiş Milletler Sürdürülebilir Kalkınma Amaçları aracılığıyla vurgulanmaktadır. Ne var ki, örgütler arası zihniyet farklılıklarının doğuracağı sosyal paradokslar, farklı örgüt türleri arasındaki projelerin başarısızlık riskini artırmaktadır. Özellikle şirket vakıflarıyla sivil toplum kuruluşlarının etkili iş birliklerini nasıl kurabildikleri konusundaki bilgi kısıtlıdır. Bu süreci aydınlatmak üzere, başarılı örgütler arası projeler yürütmüş olan LEGO Foundation ve Right to Play arasındaki iş birliği tekil vaka analizi yöntemi ile incelenmiştir. Sürdürülebilirlik akımını şekillendiren sosyal yapılandırmacı çerçeveyle uyumlu bir biçimde, ikincil veri kaynakları soyutlamacı anlatı paradigması üzerinden analiz edilmiştir. Bu analizler aracılığıyla, ilgili örgütler arası iş birliği kurulurken ortak seçimi için kriz anlatısından, ortak değerlendirmesi için kimlik anlatısından, projeyi başlatmak için ise aşkınlık anlatısından faydalanıldığı tespit edilmiştir. Bu anlatı türlerinin tespiti, örgütler arası proje başlatma sürecinin etkililiğini artırarak Sürdürülebilir Kalkınma Amaçlarına erişmeyi kolaylaştırabilir.

Keywords

Sürdürülebilirlik, Örgütler arası iş birliği, Sivil toplum kuruluşları

Sustainability Narratives: A Social Constructivist Perspective on Interorganizational Projects

Abstract

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals emphasize the solution of global problems to necessitate interorganizational collaborations. However, organizational differences tend to underpin social paradoxes in these collaborations, which increase the risk that interorganizational projects will fail. Humanity has limited knowledge about how corporate foundations and non-governmental organizations in particular can establish effective collaborations. Using a single case study design to address this question, the study examines the collaboration  between the LEGO Foundation and Right to Play, which carried out successful interorganizational projects. The study then analyzes the narratives that are available from secondary data sources through the abstractionist paradigm to identify generalizable patterns. Organizations have been identified to use crisis narratives while selecting partners, identity narratives to evaluate potential collaborations, and transcendence narratives to initiate interorganizational projects. Acknowledging these types of narrative may help reach the Sustainable Development Goals by increasing the effectiveness of interorganizational collaborations.

Keywords

Sustainability, Interorganizational collaborations, NGOs

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