Negotiating shared Responsibility for sustainable urban Development: Pronouns and In-here-ness as rhetorical Resources

Ahlström, Karin,1964-Mälardalens universitet,Industriell ekonomi och organisation,NOMP-group - New Organisation and Managment Practices (author)

This article explores how issues of shared responsibility are negotiated in the realm of managing collaborative efforts between organizational actors for sustainable urban development abiding to the Agenda 2023 – with a particular focus on the rhetorical resources used in such negotiations. Through empirical material from recorded meetings in a one-year project at a municipal company, the article contributes to previous literature on collaborative ways of organizing and managing complex public challenges. With a focus on the discursive construction of shared responsibility, the concept of in-here-ness is introduced to denote accepted and assumed responsibility, which may shift through the use of pronouns: from a narrow ‘I’ or ‘we’ of stakeholders to a wider ‘we’ of collaborating parties. The article further contributes to the empirical field of sustainable development at the municipal level.

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP Annan samhällsvetenskap Tvärvetenskapliga studier inom samhällsvetenskap hsv//swe
SOCIAL SCIENCES Other Social Sciences Social Sciences Interdisciplinary hsv//eng
discursive psychology
collaboration
negotiations
shared responsibility
sustainability
industriell ekonomi och organisation
Industrial Economics and Organisations

Lindell, Eva,1974-Mälardalens universitet,Industriell ekonomi och organisation,NOMP-group - New Organisation and Managment Practices (author)
Stier, Jonas,1967-Mälardalens universitet,Akademin för hälsa, vård och välfärd (author)
Mälardalens universitetIndustriell ekonomi och organisation (creator_code:org_t)

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