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.authorMinaar, Reinald
dc.contributor.authorStrauss, Erik
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-13T12:32:32Z
dc.date.available2025-01-13T12:32:32Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.description.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.
dc.identifier.citationWurm, B., Mendling, J., Minaar, R., & Strauss, E. (2024). Power to All or Few People? An Exploration of Power Dynamics in Holacracy. Proceedings of the 57th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 6240–6249. https://doi.org/10.24251/HICSS.2023.748
dc.identifier.doi10.24251/HICSS.2023.748
dc.identifier.isbn978-0-9981331-7-1
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.weizenbaum-library.de/handle/id/788
dc.language.isoeng
dc.rightsopen access
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectHolacracyen
dc.subjectPower Dynamicsen
dc.subjectTemporal Network Analysisen
dc.subjectDigital Trace Dataen
dc.subjectNew Forms of Organizingen
dc.titlePower to All or Few People? An Exploration of Power Dynamics in Holacracy
dc.typeConferencePaper
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
dcmi.typeText
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.urlhttps://hdl.handle.net/10125/107134
local.researchgroupSicherheit und Transparenz digitaler Prozesse (HU)
local.researchtopicDigitale Infrastrukturen in der Demokratie
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