SCDI faculty member Professor Lisen Selander has been highly commended for the 2024 Stafford Beer Medal. The commendation is related to her and Sirkka Järvänpää’s EJIS paper.
The paper explores how digital transformation and scaling impact membership-based organizations like social movement organizations (SMOs), focusing on Amnesty International’s national sections in Australia and Sweden. It highlights the tension caused by member prototype ambiguity—variations in new members’ attributes and behaviors—that can destabilize collective identity and weaken social or political impact. The study provides insights into how professional cores in these organizations address such challenges, contributing to the broader literature on digital transformation, prototype ambiguity, and social movements.