That’s "Fair": A Framework for Change in Alternative Organizing

• In Event: Organizational Communication Research Escalator - Extended Session (Part 1)

Abstract

This study provides an empirical exploration of an “alternative organization” based specifically on three characteristics of the research site: the cross-sectional positioning of the Oregon Country Fair as a Non-Profit Organization, the volunteer base that forms the vast majority of the organizational structure, and the temporally bounded context of event-based organizing. Within this alternative frame, this study looks to contribute to emergent understandings of organizational change by studying the discursive representations of change over time, drawing on the history and current practices of the Oregon Country Fair.

Author

• Dana Harrington, U of Colorado - Boulder