Organizing for Societal Grand Challenges
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Societal grand challenges have moved from a marginal concern to a mainstream issue within the field of organization and management studies. Organizing for Societal Grand Challenges unpacks how diverse forms of organizing help tackle - or reinforce - grand challenges, while emphasizing the need for researchers to expand their methodological repertoire and reflect upon scholarly practices.
This edited collection offers an organizational perspective on societal grand challenges in three sections: Diverse Forms of Organizing and Societal Grand Challenges; Scholarship and Societal Grand Challenges; Reflections and Outlook. The articles offer empirical and conceptual work that focus on a wide variety of regions including Africa, Asia, Europe, and South America, and engage with multiple grand challenges, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, decent work, hunger, inequality, and poverty.
Drawing on varied theoretical lenses, the authors take stock of recent developments in the literature, present an overview of the current thinking, and set a foundation for future research on grand challenges in organization and management studies. The articles provide inspiration, insights, and instruments for developing timely and relevant knowledge to engage with the pressing societal grand challenges of our time.
Introduction: How Organizing Matters for Societal Grand Challenges; Ali Aslan Gümüsay, Emilio Marti, Hannah Trittin-Ulbrich, and Christopher Wickert
- Section I. Diverse Forms of Organizing & Societal Grand Challenges
- Chapter 1. Tackling Grand Challenges Collaboratively: The Role of Value-Driven Sensegiving; Arne Kroeger, Nicole Siebold, Franziska Günzel-Jensen, Fouad Philippe Saade, and Jukka-Pekka Heikkilä
- Chapter 2. Building Collective Institutional Infrastructures for Decent Platform Work: The Development of a Crowdwork Agreement in Germany; Thomas Gegenhuber, Elke Schuessler, Georg Reischauer, and Laura Thäter
- Chapter 3. Theorizing the Role of Metaphors in Co-orienting Collective Action Towards Grand Challenges: The Example of the Covid-19 Pandemic; Dennis Schoeneborn, Consuelo Vásquez, and Joep P. Cornelissen
- Chapter 4. Wicked Problems and New Ways of Organising: How Fe y Alegria Confronted Changing Manifestations of Poverty; Camilo Arciniegas Pradilla, Jose Bento da Silva, and Juliane Reinecke
- Chapter 5. From a Clash of Social Orders to a Loss of Decidability in Meta-organizations Tackling Grand Challenges: The Case of Japan Leaving the International Whaling Commission; Héloïse Berkowitz and Michael Grothe-Hammer
- Chapter 6. Commitment to Grand Challenges in Fluid Forms of Organizing: The Role of Narratives’ Temporality; Iben Sandal Stjerne, Matthias Wenzel, and Silviya Svejenova
- Section II. Scholarship & Societal Grand Challenges
- Chapter 7. Addressing Grand Challenges Through Different Forms of Organising: A Literature Review; Leo Juri Kaufmann and Anja Danner-Schröder
- Chapter 8. Scale in Research on Grand Challenges; Katharina Dittrich
- Chapter 9. Diaries as a Methodological Innovation for Studying Grand Challenges; Madeleine Rauch and Shahzad (Shaz) Ansari
- Chapter 10. Grand Challenges and Business Education: Dealing with Barriers to Learning and Uncomfortable Knowledge; Marian Konstantin Gatzweiler, Corinna Frey-Heger, and Matteo Ronzani
- Chapter 11. Striving for Societal Impact as an Early-Career Researcher: Reflections on Five Common Concerns; Sascha Friesike, Leonhard Dobusch, and Maximilian Heimstädt
- Section III. Reflections & Outlook
- Chapter 12. Robust Action: Advancing a Distinctive Approach to Grand Challenges; Joel Gehman, Dror Etzion, and Fabrizio Ferraro
- Chapter 13. Surfing the Grand Challenges Wave in Management Scholarship: How Did We Get Here, Where Are We Now, and What’s Next?; Jennifer Howard-Grenville and Jonas Spengler
Ali Aslan Gümüsay is Senior Researcher at University of Hamburg, Germany, and Head of Research Group 'Innovation, Entrepreneurship & Society' at the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet; Society Berlin, Germany.
Emilio Marti is Assistant Professor at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, Netherlands, and part of the Erasmus Initiative 'Dynamics of Inclusive Prosperity.'
Hannah Trittin-Ulbrich is Assistant Professor for Business Ethics at Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany.
Christopher Wickert is Associate Professor in Ethics and Sustainability at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU), Netherlands.