Power to All or Few People? An Exploration of Power Dynamics in Holacracy

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dc.contributor.authorWurm, Bastian
dc.contributor.authorMendling, Jan
dc.contributor.authorMinnaar, Reinald
dc.contributor.authorStrauss, Erik
dc.date.accessioned2023-12-26T18:49:19Z
dc.date.available2023-12-26T18:49:19Z
dc.date.issued2024-01-03
dc.identifier.doi10.24251/HICSS.2024.748
dc.identifier.isbn978-0-9981331-7-1
dc.identifier.otherae585fa2-78cb-441f-a52f-8a2fa767dd94
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10125/107134
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofProceedings of the 57th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectDigital Innovation, Transformation, and Entrepreneurship
dc.subjectdigital trace data
dc.subjectholacracy
dc.subjectnew forms of organizing
dc.subjectpower dynamics
dc.subjecttemporal network analysis
dc.titlePower to All or Few People? An Exploration of Power Dynamics in Holacracy
dc.typeConference Paper
dc.type.dcmiText
dcterms.abstractPower is key to all organizing. It allows actors to perform actions, make decisions and assign tasks to others. In bureaucratic organizations power is mainly associated with the position that the actor holds. Because actors compete for power, change their position within an organization or leave an organization, power is dynamically changing. We refer to these changes in power as power dynamics. Many New Forms of Organizing, such as Holacracy, claim that individuals have more decision-making capacity, i.e., that power is more equally distributed within the organization. In this paper, we use a unique dataset from a holacratic organization to empirically examine how power dynamics in Holacracy evolve over time. In particular, we use temporal network analysis to reconstruct and contrast two related networks that capture information on how decisions in Holacracy are made. Our findings indicate that also in Holacracy power is not equally distributed, but that few individuals hold most power.
dcterms.extent10 pages
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