Tackling Grand Challenges Collaboratively: The Role of Value-driven Sensegiving

We conduct a literature review on forms of organizing that address grand challenges, which are operationalized as the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations, as this framework is universal and widely adopted. By analyzing the articles that match our criteria, we identify six differentiable organizational forms: movements, temporary organizations, partnerships, established organizations, multi-stakeholder networks, and supranational organizations. These six forms are differentiated based on the two following categories: organizing segment and communicational technological approach. Our analysis shows that tackling a grand challenge often starts with collectives as a protest culture without any expected goal, besides sending an impulse to others. This impulse is received by criticized institutionalized organizations that have the capacity and resources to address the problem properly. However, new challenges arise as these organizations inadequately resolve these problems, thereby leading to conflict-laden areas of tension, wherein emergent organizations complement institutionalized organizations that have created the first infrastructure. To solve the most complex problems, a trichotomous

Section: Future Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Future Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Addressing Grand Challenges Through Different Forms of Organizing: A Literature Review

Kaufmann¹,

Danner-Schröder²

2022

“…In the context of voluntary associations, commitment has been found to increase with communication and involvement in decision-making (Knoke, 1981). As Salancik (1977, p. 63) As prior research shows, narratives play an important role in gaining and sustaining such commitment (e.g., Barry & Elmes, 1997;Hernes et al, 2015;Sonenshein, 2010), especially when implementing sustainability initiatives (Arciniegas Pradilla et al, 2022;Haack et al, 2012;Kroeger, Siebold, Günzel-Jensen, Saade, & Heikkilä, 2022;Schoeneborn, Vásques, & Cornelissen, 2022). Narratives are "temporal, discursive constructions that provide a means for individual, social, and organizational sensemaking and sensegiving" (Vaara, Sonenshein, & Boje, 2016, p. 496).…”

Section: Enabling Commitment Through Narrativesmentioning

confidence: 98%

Commitment to Grand Challenges in Fluid Forms of Organizing: The Role of Narratives’ Temporality

Stjerne¹,

Wenzel²,

Svejenova³

2022

Organization and management scholars are increasingly interested in understanding how "fluid" forms of organizing contribute to the tackling of grand challenges. These forms are fluid in that they bring together a dynamic range of actors with diverse purposes, expertise, and interests in a temporary and nonbinding way. Fluid forms of organizing enable flexible participation. Yet, they struggle to gain and sustain commitment. In this case study of the SDG2 Advocacy Hub, which supports the achievement of zero hunger by 2030, we explore how the temporality of narratives contributes to actors' commitment to tackling grand challenges in fluid forms of organizing. In our analysis, we identify three types of narratives -universal, situated, and bridging -and discern their different temporal horizons and temporal directions. In doing so, our study sheds light on the contributions by the temporality of narratives to fostering commitment to tackling grand challenges in fluid forms of organizing. It suggests the importance of considering "multitemporality," i.e., the plurality of connected temporalities, rather than foregrounding either the present or the future.

“…The authors outline how different temporalities enable the commitment of multiple actors to tackle the grand challenge of zero hunger by 2030. Kroeger, Siebold, Günzel-Jensen, Saade, and Heikkilä (2022) outline how valuedriven sensegiving allows heterogeneous stakeholders to make sense of and mobilize for a common future vision based on shared values. Focusing on a Lebanese entrepreneurial initiative that aims to tackle the grand challenge of inequality, the authors describe how collective sensemaking around values enables successful joint organizational efforts over time.…”

Section: Insights Into the Uncertainty Of Grand Challengesmentioning

confidence: 99%

How Organizing Matters for Societal Grand Challenges

Gümüşay¹,

Marti²,

Trittin‐Ulbrich³

et al. 2022

Societal grand challenges have moved from a marginal concern to a mainstream issue within organization and management theory. How diverse forms of organizing help tackle -or reinforce -grand challenges has become centrally important. In this introductory paper, we take stock of the contributions to the volume on Organizing for Societal Grand Challenges and identify three characteristics of grand challenges that require further scholarly attention: their interconnectedness, fluidity, and paradoxical nature. We also emphasize the need to expand our methodological repertoire and reflect upon our practices as a scholarly community.