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What is a resourcing perspective and why is it useful?

Martha Feldman, University of California – Irvine, and Monica Worline, Research Scientist, Stanford University Center for Compassion and Altruism Research

Description

Semester:

  • Fall 2015

Speakers:

Martha Feldman, University of California - Irvine, and Monica Worline, Research Scientist, Stanford University Center for Compassion and Altruism Research

Lecture Time:

Fri, November 20, 2015 @ 1:30 pm to 3:00 pm

Lecture Location:

Room R1240, Ross School of Business

Speaker Webpage(s):

https://socialecology.uci.edu/faculty/feldmanm
http://positiveorgs.bus.umich.edu/people/monica-worline/

Introduced By:

No introduction available.

Abstract

Organizational scholarship offers a variety of theoretical perspectives on resources, such as resource dependence (Pfeffer & Salancik, 1978; Pfeffer, 1982), the resource based view of the firm (Barney, 1991; Barney, 2001), and dynamic capabilities realized through organizational processes (Eisenhardt & Martin, 2000; Teece, Pisano, & Shuen, 1997). What we have called the resourcing perspective (Feldman, 2004; Feldman & Worline, 2011; Howard-Grenville, 2007; Quinn & Worline, 2008) reveals resources as organizational process and orients scholars to the potentiality inherent in resources by making central assumptions that differ in some ways from these other perspectives on resources. The first of these assumptions is that resources are created in use, and therefore anything is only a potential resource until it is used. The second assumption is that acting in relation to a potential resource transforms it, because it connects it with a schema. And the third assumption is that context matters for what a resource is and how it can be connected to a schema. In this ICOS presentation, we will offer an overview of the resourcing perspective and ask what theoretical questions this perspective opens for exploration. We will also touch on the practicality of resourcing by showing how the use of resourcing theory encourages us to expand our view of what constitutes a resource as well as sparking an expanded view of the activities that enact resources, thus, opening the door for creative and unexpected solutions to difficult organizational problems.

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