Extremity in Organisations: Conceptualising and Managing the Spectrum of Extreme Conditions

Éditeurs invités

• Xi Wen (Carys) Chan, Griffith University
• Shea Fan, Deakin University
• Graham Dwyer, The University of Dublin
• Margaret A. Shaffer, University of Oklahoma

Synthèse

Contemporary organisations increasingly face conditions of extremity, from acute crises and disasters to the mundane extremity embedded in everyday operations. While existing research examines extreme events in specific contexts, there is a lack of conceptual foundations understanding how extremity manifests, evolves, and impacts organisations holistically beyond extreme contexts research.

This special issue aims to consolidate knowledge across human resource management, psychology, organisational behaviour and other fields to develop frameworks for understanding extremity from different standpoints with different disciplines. The issue will establish extremity as an emerging domain of inquiry to provide conceptual foundations with practical implications for managing high-stakes environments.

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Thèmes proposés

• Conceptualising extremity in an organisational context - theoretical clarity to the construct of extremity, attributes that render phenomena extreme, boundaries of extremity, diverse theoretical perspectives, equivocality and its effects on individuals and groups, ambiguity and improvisation, sensemaking in breached or disrupted circumstances
• Processes or mechanisms that organisations use to cope with extremity - individual and group responses, adaptation in the moment, improvisation as catalyst for transformation, theoretical understanding of coping, adjustment and organisational transformation in face of extremity
• The impact of extremity on individuals - cognition, behaviour, embodied reactions, wellbeing and performance under extremity, individual coping mechanisms, novel sensemaking and leverage of challenges
• Conceptualising extremity in occupational contexts - distinctive manifestations across occupational domains, extremity as part of everyday and mundane contexts, occupational-specific theoretical understanding
• Extremity caused by advanced technologies - relationship between technology and extremity, technological change reshaping work intensity and performance, AI and innovation effects, blurred boundaries between extreme and normal