Organizing for societal grand challenges /

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. 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 organ...

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Other Authors: Gümüsay, Ali Aslan (Editor), Marti, Emilio (Editor), Trittin-Ulbrich, Hannah (Editor), Wickert, Christopher (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2022.
Series:Research in the sociology of organizations ; v. 79.
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1108/S0733-558X202279
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.