Organizing for Grand Challenges - part I
Speakers: Madeleine Rauch (Stanford/CBS), Nicole Siebold (Aarhus), and Hannah Trittin-Ulbrich (Leuphana)
Time: Thursday, 20 April at 10am (Eastern) / 3pm (London) / 4pm (CET). This webinar is scheduled for 90 minutes (including Q&A).
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Organizing can play a vital role in addressing social grand challenges. They can help tackle or address such challenges. Simultaneously, they can give rise to grand challenges. In this session, we present recent insights into theories and methodologies that may help to understand the role of organizations and organizing in societal grand challenges, and we engage in a lively dialogue on future research opportunities. The speakers of this session include editors and authors of a recently published special issue of Research in the Sociology of Organizations (RSO) on Organizing for Societal Grand Challenges, who will share their research experiences and outlooks on grand challenges.
Readings:
- Gümüsay, A. A., Marti, E., Trittin-Ulbrich, H., & Wickert, C. (2022). How organizing matters for societal grand challenges. In Organizing for Societal Grand Challenges. Emerald Publishing Limited. Access via https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/S0733-558X20220000079002/full/pdf
- Rauch, M., Ansari, S. (2022). Diaries as a methodological innovation in the study of grand challenges. In Organizing for Societal Grand Challenges. Emerald Publishing Limited. Access via https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/S0733-558X20220000079019/full/html
- Kroeger, A., Siebold, N., Günzel-Jensen, F., Saade, F., & Heikkilä, J.-P. (2022). Tackling grand challenges collaboratively: The role of value-driven sensegiving. In Organizing for Societal Grand Challenges. Emerald Publishing Limited. Access via https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/S0733-558X20220000079003/full/html
About the speakers:
Madeleine Rauch is a Visiting Fellow at Stanford University and Assistant Professor (on leave) at Copenhagen Business School. Her work has been published in outlets such as Organization Science, Journal of Management Studies, Strategic Organization, Research in the Sociology of Organizations, and Harvard Business Review.
Nicole Siebold is an Assistant Professor for Social Entrepreneurship at Aarhus University, Denmark. Her research has been published in outlets such as Journal of Business Research, Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, and Research in the Sociology of Organizations. She is an associate editor of The Journal of Social Entrepreneurship.
Hannah Trittin-Ulbrich is an assistant professor for Business Ethics at Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany. She is guest editor of Business & Society, Research in the Sociology of Organizations, and Business Ethics, the Environment & Responsibility, Management Communication Quarterly, and social media editor of the Journal of Business Ethics.
For queries, please contact Ibrat Djabbarov: i.djabbarov@cranfield.ac.uk.
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Ibrat Djabbarov
Cranfield School of Management
BEDFORD
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