Meta‐organization is a recent concept that draws attention of management academics. It allows to renew the private‐public partnership approach. There is still little research on meta‐organizations as contributing to sustainable development (Berkowitz and Bor, 2018) as well as to their resources, including mechanisms supporting resilience (Berkowitz, 2018). This paper focuses on the absorptive or resilience capacity of a meta‐organization in the field of sustainable food. Food governance on territories has become a major issue over the past few years. The issue is recently taken in charge by collectives bringing together public and private partners, generally civil society, around food perceived as a common. The study is qualitative and based on the case of a local food policy council in France. Refering to resilience theory (Weick, 1993) and adopting a grounded theory methodology, we identify the characteristics of meta‐organizational resilience. We then discuss the relationship between the resilience of a meta‐organization and social transformation and contribute to the knowledge of policy‐shaper meta‐organizations. Finally, in this case we show how the social and solidarity economy (SSE) and the public authorities meet around a food common, making meta‐organization an expression of institutional diversity in the deployment of the commons.

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民主力量组织：饮食联合会

元组织是一个引起管理学者关注的新概念。它允许更新公私伙伴关系方法。关于元组织对可持续发展（Berkowitz和Bor，2018）及其资源（包括支持弹性的机制）（Berkowitz，2018）的贡献的研究很少。本文重点关注可持续食品领域中一个超组织的吸收或复原能力。在过去的几年中，领土上的粮食管理已经成为一个主要问题。最近，由集体负责将公共和私人伙伴（通常是民间社会）召集起来的问题，围绕着被认为是共同的食物。该研究是定性的，基于法国当地食品政策委员会的案例。参考弹性理论（Weick，（1993年）并采用扎根的理论方法，我们确定了元组织复原力的特征。然后，我们讨论了元组织的复原力与社会转型之间的关系，并有助于了解政策制定者的元组织。最后，在本案例中，我们展示了社会团结经济（SSE）和公共当局如何围绕粮食共同体相遇，从而使元组织成为共同体部署中机构多样性的一种表达。