On Relationality and Organizationality: Degrees of durability, materiality, and communicatively constituting a fluid social collective
研究从关系本体论视角出发，通过一个用户自建休闲空间的案例，探讨自然元素、情感等动态方面如何作为物质性影响流动集体的组织性程度，揭示了持久性对决策、身份认同和组织性变化的关键作用。
Recent organizational theorizing contends that loosely structured fluid social collectives may attain degrees of “organizationality” depending on whether or not they achieve certain organization-like elements. The organizationality approach offers a compelling account for the persistence of fluid social collectives, but the framework could be strengthened by moving beyond language-centered explanations and including into theorizing a plurality of “entities” that differ in ontological status. Based on a case study within the context of a fluid user-built recreation space, this study adopts a relational ontology viewpoint on materiality to show how dynamic aspects of natural elements, expectations, feelings, and the cyclicality of nature can be theorized as material, and thus mattering, to organizing processes. Findings reveal that the degree of durability of these entities is key for understanding interconnected decision-making, identity, and ultimately how the fluid collective achieves or degrades organizationality.