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Administrative Science Quarterly 1–3 The Author(s) 2023 Article reuse guidelines: sagepub.com/journals-permissions DOI: 10.1177/00018392231166842 journals.sagepub.com/home/asq Martin Kornberger. Strategies for Distributed and Collective Action: Connecting the Dots. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. 229 pp. $62.50, hardcover. Mountain bikes, operating systems, apps, and more apps—each exemplifies the role of lead users in driving innovation. Users who are most deeply involved in pushing existing tools and technologies in new ways are more likely to dis- cover the limits of standard practice as well as novel possibilities (p. 98). These familiar lessons apply no less to the study of organizations and organizing itself. When it comes to pushing organization theory in new directions, look to the lead users—in this case, to Martin Kornberger, a scholar of strategy. Strategies for Distributed and Collective Action begins with a mismatch between inherited theory and empirical observation. In 2015, a flood of refugees swept through Europe, overwhelming state capacities. But in the pro- cess of swamping existing institutions, the crisis also provoked surprising kinds of collective action. The possibility for such novel configurations was exempli- fied by the Train of Hope in Vienna, which evolved from nothing to a major, improvised yet also choreographed mobilization of volunteer individuals,
Administrative Science Quarterly – SAGE
Published: Sep 1, 2023
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