Commons organizing names the process by which communities jointly produce and govern common goods.

Evidence

In this article, we define commons organizing as the processes by which communities of people work in common experimenting with new organizational designs that promote common goods production, distribution, governance and ownership in the pursuit of the common good. We use the term “organizing” (instead of organization) because we aim to understand the processes by which people make “ongoing efforts at coordination and control of activity and knowledge” to support new organizations (Cooren et al. 2011, p. 1149). — Laura Albareda and Alejo Jose G. Sison, Commons Organizing, 17

Categorization

• DEFINE: Distinguishes ‘commons organizing’ (process) from ‘organization’ (structure), shifting analytical attention to coordination and control efforts.
• corroborated: 5 independent passages support this claim — Laura Albareda and Alejo Jose G. Sison, Commons Organizing: Embedding Common…, 17
• XREF: connects to: Commons function as social resources binding communities together, not just property rights. — Emil Sandström and Ann-Kristin Ekman and Karl-Johan Lindholm, Commoning in the periphery – The role…, 10; Commons are best understood as dynamic processes of commoning, not static resources. — Emil Sandström and Ann-Kristin Ekman and Karl-Johan Lindholm, Commoning in the periphery – The role…, 12; Communities organize around common resources motivated by virtues and cooperation. — Laura Albareda and Alejo Jose G. Sison, Commons Organizing: Embedding Common…, 201 (+6 more)

Related

• Commons organizing fuses ethical common-good production with peer sharing. (similarity 0.90)
• Commoning joins producing shared goods with cultivating collective skills and character. (similarity 0.88)
• Commons are best understood as dynamic processes of commoning, not static resources. (similarity 0.87)
• Commons function as social resources binding communities together, not just property rights. (similarity 0.86)
• Communities organize around common resources motivated by virtues and cooperation. (similarity 0.84)
• Communities can act collectively as a single entrepreneur and enterprise. (similarity 0.83)
• Converging virtue and commons theories yields both complementarities and organizing tensions. (similarity 0.82)
• Digital voluntary communities can produce collective goods unmet by states and markets. (similarity 0.82)
• Contemporary common goods extend beyond natural resources into digitally and urbanly produced domains. (similarity 0.81)
• Commoning practices simultaneously produce group relations, member subjectivities, and material culture. (similarity 0.81)
• Commoning practices vary with each commons’ unique context, aims, membership and culture. (similarity 0.80)
• Cooperatives reproduce themselves through shared governance and yield both material and immaterial common resources. (similarity 0.80)
• Commons organizing generates tensions with markets, regulations, and economic sustainability. (similarity 0.79)
• Digital tools enable new decentralized forms of commons peer production. (similarity 0.79)
• Prosocial organizing spans CSR, social enterprises, hybrids, and community ventures. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Communities organize around common resources motivated by virtues and cooperation. #expands (0.85) — Laura Albareda and Alejo Jose G. Sison, Commons Organizing, 201
• Commoning joins producing shared goods with cultivating collective skills and character. #expands (0.80) — Laura Albareda and Alejo Jose G. Sison, Commons Organizing, 99
• Commoning practices simultaneously produce group relations, member subjectivities, and material culture. #expands (0.75) — Yael Arbell, The Circle of Commoning, 70