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Warren Nilsson
Researcher at University of Cape Town
Publications - 8
Citations - 178
Warren Nilsson is an academic researcher from University of Cape Town. The author has contributed to research in topics: Scholarship & Institutional theory. The author has an hindex of 5, co-authored 8 publications receiving 128 citations. Previous affiliations of Warren Nilsson include Centre for Social Innovation.
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Positive Institutional Work: Exploring Institutional Work Through the Lens of Positive Organizational Scholarship
TL;DR: The authors define positive institutional work as the creation or maintenance of institutional patterns that express mutually constitutive experiential and social goods, and argue that positive institutional stability rests upon work aimed at making group boundaries and material practices more inclusive.
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Neither Colony Nor Enclave: Calling for dialogical contextualism in management and organization studies:
Ralph Hamann,John M. Luiz,John M. Luiz,Kutlwano K. K. M. Ramaboa,Farzad Rafi Khan,Xolisa Dhlamini,Warren Nilsson +6 more
TL;DR: The authors express their unease with one-sided invitations into the Northern mainstream, as well as with Southern critics' retreat into indigenous enclaves of organizational scholarship, and use this dichotomy to support their work.
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Scenarios of Good Anthropocenes in southern Africa
Maike Hamann,Maike Hamann,Reinette Biggs,Reinette Biggs,Laura Pereira,Laura Pereira,Laura Pereira,Rika Preiser,Tanja Hichert,Ryan Blanchard,Ryan Blanchard,H. Warrington-Coetzee,Nicholas King,Andrew Merrie,Warren Nilsson,P. Odendaal,Sam Poskitt,D. Sanchez Betancourt,Gina Ziervogel +18 more
TL;DR: In the rapidly changing and uncertain world of the Anthropocene, positive visions of the future could play a crucial role in catalysing deep social-ecological transformations to help guide humanity towards more sustainable and equitable future.
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The Evolution of a Sustainability Leader: The Development of Strategic and Boundary Spanning Organizational Innovation Capabilities in Woolworths
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the development of Woolworths' relational approach to sustainability innovation, and demonstrate how sustainability leaders can come to identify their own long-term interests as interdependent with the broader social-ecological system, and how novel organizational and relational capabilities are necessary to conceive and implement such innovations.