The Department of Strategy and Management invites you to a faculty seminar with Associate Professor Tina Saebi and Assistant Professor Vidya Organti
Abstract
In this presentation, we introduce our working paper on Collective Action. Despite its longstanding history and established scholarship across disciplines, research on collective action remains fragmented, hindering its common and comprehensive understanding. To address this, we systematically review 731 articles from top journals in disciplines such as management, economics, sociology, information systems, and psychology. To reconcile different conceptualizations of collective action across disciplines, we identify five core elements - Governance, ActoRs, Actions, Systems, and Structures, and Purpose - collectively forming the ‘GRASP’ model of collective action. These elements consistently emerged across all disciplines, providing a layered and comprehensive conceptualization that transcends disciplinary boundaries. This model served as the foundation of our multi-level, multi-stage integrative framework that allowed us to consolidate the literature, identify persistent gaps, and establish how insights from other disciplines can inform Management scholarship on collective action. Specifically, our review uncovers promising new research avenues and opportunities for cross-fertilization between disciplines, fostering a cohesive understanding of collective action.