Cocreating Forward: How Researchers and Managers Can Address Problems Together

Sharma, Garima; Greco, Angela; Grewatsch, Sylvia; Bansal, Pratima

doi:10.5465/amle.2021.0233

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“…If a significant impact is to be achieved, however, the study of these and other topics cannot be done in isolation but requires collaboration between academia and practice. While 'there is no single silver bullet to impact' (Bansal & Sharma, 2022, p. 831), we believe that the 'Cocreating Forward Approach' suggested by Sharma et al (2022), which invites researchers and managers to come together to cocreate solutions for wicked problems, is particularly relevant in the context of SDGs. By building bridges across academia and practice to address future emerging or evolving issues, we would not only be contributing to the theory of practice (Jarzabkowski, 2004;Jarzabkowski & Spee, 2009;Whittington, 2006) but also be moving the field of management research from simply generating insights to actual practical impact.…”

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How can research contribute to the implementation of sustainable development goals? An interpretive review of SDG literature in management

Berrone

Rousseau

Ricart

et al. 2023

Int J Management Reviews

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Organizations often face challenges in incorporating the sustainable development goals (SDGs) into their strategic agendas. Despite the availability of guidelines from leading practitioners, such guidance often lacks the scientific insights provided by academia. In this study, we examine the integration of scholarly management literature into practical guidelines for achieving the SDGs. To do so, we first examined nine practitioner guidelines offered by well-reputed consulting firms, multilateral organizations and non-profits, from which we identified four underlying general processes: prioritizing SDGs to the most relevant strategic goals of firms, contextualizing the SDGs to firms' geographical and industrial contexts, collaborating with other organizations and stakeholders to make more impactful progress and innovating via business process remodelling.Using these four processes as an overarching framework, we then conducted an interpretive literature review to mine highly cited sustainable developmentrelated papers in the management field covering an 11-year period (2010)(2011)(2012)(2013)(2014)(2015)(2016)(2017)(2018)(2019)(2020). From these studies, we derived novel connections to all four stages to offer a more robust and scientifically informed process-based framework for SDG adoption. We discuss multiple scholarly implications, including the importance of enhancing knowledge about the various phases of the SDG adoption model, developing research on understudied SDGs, and expanding theoretical and methodological approaches to SDG research. Additionally, we provide a more grounded SDG adoption model with significant practical implications.

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Section: Learning From the Implementation Of The Sdg Adoption Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

How can research contribute to the implementation of sustainable development goals? An interpretive review of SDG literature in management

Berrone

Rousseau

Ricart

et al. 2023

Int J Management Reviews

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“…In such contexts, unilateral action by firms and even industry-level cooperation are unlikely to catalyze systemic change. Given the dynamic nature of interwoven social and ecological systems, organizations need to find ways of cooperating that account for the emerging nature of the problems encountered (Sharma et al 2022).…”

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The Multiple Facets of Corporate Purpose: An Analytical Typology

Besharov

Mitzinneck

2023

Strategy Science

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As firms increasingly adopt a corporate purpose, there is substantial variation in what this turn to purpose actually entails and divergent views about whether and how firms can realize their purpose aspirations. To capture this variation and analyze its implications for enacting purpose, we leverage three existing bodies of research in organization and management theory: Early organization theory illuminates uses of purpose to convey an organization’s overarching reason for being, organizational hybridity sheds light on purpose as an alternative organizational objective to profit maximization, and systems perspectives offer tools for explaining purpose as a catalyst of systemic change beyond the boundaries of the firm. The typology that we develop based on these three bodies of research provides analytical clarity about distinct facets of the corporate purpose phenomenon and surfaces complementary insights into challenges and opportunities associated with purpose enactment. In doing so, it illuminates the value of drawing on existing organization and management theories for advancing corporate purpose scholarship and provides a springboard for future research. History: This paper has been accepted for the Strategy Science Special Issue on Corporate Purpose.

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“…Current debates in the fields of organization development and organization theory have evolved to understand how and why IOC can help solve major societal challenges (Gray & Purdy, 2018; Gümüsay & Reinecke, 2022; Sharma et al, 2022). This issue has been reinforced not only in academia but in practitioner contexts, especially after acknowledging that IOC is a key pillar for attaining the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)— SDG 17: Partnerships for The Goals , one of the most ambitious multinational agreements (backed by the United Nations) to provide “a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet, now and into the future” (United Nations, 2022).…”

Section: Approaching Ioc From a Normative Stance: In Search Of Resear...mentioning

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“…It implies tackling grand challenges by exploring and/or co-creating developments before they are reality, and involves engaging in collective acts of imagination that seek “to articulate desirable futures and then, ‘backcast’ as to how they might become more likely” (Gümüsay & Reinecke, 2022, p. 239). For researchers, this is a challenging endeavor, as it implies collaborating with multiple stakeholders in a process of future-forming theory building (Gergen, 2015; Pavez et al, 2021a; Sharma et al, 2022), where the focus is to “study, conceptualize, and theorize what is not (yet) observable and does not (yet) exist” (Gümüsay & Reinecke, 2022, pp. 236–237).…”

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Collaborating Across Organizational Boundaries to Co-Create a More Just, Resilient, and Thriving Society

Pavez

Feyerherm

Valenzuela

et al. 2022

The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science

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In this editorial for our special issue on interorganizational collaboration (IOC), we position collaborative action in the context of the concurrent global crises that necessitate the bridging of interests, positions, competencies, and resources. We unpack the notion of IOC in terms of its conditions, phases, practices, and dynamics, and provide an overview of how the contributing authors support such understanding of cross-boundary collaboration. Through their action-oriented approaches to research and learning, they show a promising interplay of insight and impact. We underline their search for impact and aim to reinforce the potential of IOC not just to be successful, but also highly meaningful to address grand challenges. We therefore take a normative stance and describe how the intertwined notions of justice, resilience, and thriving can serve as a compass to legitimize, organize, facilitate, assess, and study IOC as an important pathway for the co-creation of a better world.

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Cocreating Forward: How Researchers and Managers Can Address Problems Together

Cited by 31 publications

References 61 publications

How can research contribute to the implementation of sustainable development goals? An interpretive review of SDG literature in management

How can research contribute to the implementation of sustainable development goals? An interpretive review of SDG literature in management

The Multiple Facets of Corporate Purpose: An Analytical Typology

Collaborating Across Organizational Boundaries to Co-Create a More Just, Resilient, and Thriving Society

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