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Monica Nadegger is a university assistant and PhD researcher at the University of Innsbruck (Department of Organisation & Learning) and at MCI - The Entrepreneurial School (Department of Tourism & Leisure Business). Her main research interests include relational perspectives on organizing, especially in the tourism and leisure industry.

Janosch Untersteiner is a teaching and research assistant at the MCI- The Entrepreneurial School (Department of Tourism & Leisure Business). His main research interest focus on destination management and service management & design within a tourism and leisure industry context.

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This study introduces an alternative way of looking at the relation ontology of organizing with the natural environment in the particular context of snow in winter tourism. Adopting the conceptual framework of organizational scripts and assessing their performance, coherence and dimensions, we explore stereotyped programs of actions in the relations between human and non-human actors and their constitutive consequences for organizing sustainable futures with the natural environment. In this context, we identified relations of snow in winter tourism with (1) snow as a manageable resource for the economic viability of winter tourism, (2) snow as a disruptive (disorganizing) resource in the face of climate change and decreasing snow reliability and (3) snow as an artificial resource in the face of technical solutions to uphold economic viability of winter tourism. The analysis contributes to the relational understanding of organizing human and non-human relations through the materialization in organizational scripts.

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No Business like Snow Business? The Performance, Coherence, and Dimensions of Organizational Scripts in Organizing Winter Tourism with or without Snow

This study introduces an alternative way of looking at the relation ontology of organizing with the natural environment in the particular context of snow in winter tourism. Adopting the conceptual framework of organizational scripts and assessing their performance, coherence and dimensions, we explore stereotyped programs of actions in the relations between human and non-human actors and their constitutive consequences for organizing sustainable futures with the natural environment. In this context, we identified relations of snow in winter tourism with (1) snow as a manageable resource for the economic viability of winter tourism, (2) snow as a disruptive (disorganizing) resource in the face of climate change and decreasing snow reliability and (3) snow as an artificial resource in the face of technical solutions to uphold economic viability of winter tourism. The analysis contributes to the relational understanding of organizing human and non-human relations through the materialization in organizational scripts.