All together now!:community initiatives engaging in sustainability transformations in the Netherlands

This dissertation explores how community initiatives engage in sustainability transformations. It uses the lenses of self-organization and collective intentionality to understand how community initiatives, formally and informally, formulate their goals, decision making and create everyday governance mechanisms and what that means for the institutional world around them. While community initiatives may not operate fully according to a fully conscious plan and are subject to self-organizational and emergent processes, individuals can be reflexive regarding their norms, values, and beliefs, leadi... Mehr ...