Meta-organizations i.e. organizations which members are themselves organizations, often play an important role in addressing a variety of grand societal challenges (such as the United Nations Environment Programme, or the European Women’s Lobby). Meta-organizations enable member-organizations to address grand challenges through self-regulation or capacity building and, hence, allow for collectively designing solutions to environmental or social problems.

Against this backdrop, we shall explore how these meta-organizational peculiarities enable and hinder the possibilities of tackling the grand challenge of climate change. In particular, we will investigate 1) the micro-foundations of setting up a meta-organizational decided order to tackle climate change, 2) the necessary mechanisms to maintain decidability and accountability in the meta-organizational space as well as 3) the potential drivers of undecidability, its impacts on the meta-organization and on its ability to tackle climate change.

Héloïse Berkowitz has a Phd in management science from i3-CRG, Ecole Polytechnique. She graduated from HEC Paris, la Sorbonne and CEMS and was a visiting scholar at Columbia School of International Public Affairs and Stanford Center for Ocean Solutions.