...Anthropogenic climate change is one of the most severe grand challenges facing humanity, and many corporations have recognized they have a responsibility to mitigate this complex problem. While some corporate attempts to mitigate climate change have resulted in effective strategies...

... in the context of the “grand challenges.” This alternative perspective challenges conventional narratives of MNE behavior as primarily cost-efficient, value-creating, or innovative and demonstrates that MNE anti-societal behavior is structural rather than isolated to a few individual cases. Multinational...

... an additional interest which needs to be considered in a polycentric order in order to forge such a consensus. Thus, entering a polycentric order should be a goal of firms (and other transnational social spaces) in order to address grand challenges (including participating in their definition and creating...

... business in and with sanctioned countries. International sanctions may disrupt existing global value chains and networks of the MNEs and affect the labor market and international staffing. This perspective paper analyzes the impact of international sanctions, as a grand challenge, on MNEs and workers...

...Multinational enterprises (MNEs) are uniquely positioned to address grand challenges relating to sustainability due to their resources and capabilities as well as their reach along global supply chains. To shed new light on the MNE–sustainability nexus, we turn to literature on transnational...

...Grand challenges – such as environmental pollution across supply chains – involve multiple stakeholders and cover a wide geographic scope. They require coordinated and cooperative efforts across organizational and geographical boundaries to be effectively addressed. The concept of transnational...

...Researchers often regard multinational enterprises (MNEs) as pivotal to addressing grand challenges, such as ensuring decent work, promoting clean energy, and handling climate change. We investigate the extent to which MNEs perceive themselves in this role by examining the intensity...

... for putting institutional theory into action in response to societal grand challenges. Regenerative organizing institutional repair emotions multimodality grand challenges nature Introduction Institutions provide stability and structure for society. Yet, over time, they too can fall out of fashion...

...Institutional change is widely acknowledged as critical to tackling grand challenges. However, deeply rooted historical patterns of action often constrain transformative efforts. While recent research emphasizes that actors can mobilize history as a resource, less attention has been paid to how...

... engagement with ongoing debates regarding this rights structure is important in order to ascertain how the role and salience of stakes and stakeholders are established. Stakeholder theory stakeholder salience stakeholders corporate governance enterprise grand challenges Introduction Over the past...

...Using an historical institutional analytical framework, we conduct an etymological analysis of the term Grand Challenges in an effort to understand how the construct has evolved over time. Our interest is in understanding how the meaning, key actors, and core practices have changed along...

...Current research largely relies on a progress perspective grounded in Enlightenment assumptions to explain how social innovation drives transformational social impact in addressing grand challenges – wickedly complex social and environmental problems. This volume compares the progress perspective...

... complex and historically contingent wicked problems into tractable, technical, and ahistorical “grand challenges.” I offer an epistemological and methodological perspective that re-historicizes the study of social innovation and engages with the complexity and contingency of social problems without...

...Societal grand challenges are global, yet management scholarship is dominated by the minority world. Tackling grand challenges requires changing – and decolonizing – our scholarship. In this article, we highlight four approaches toward inclusive research partnerships that are collaborative...

... institutional complexity can create irreconcilable tensions rather than opportunities for hybrid organizing. Necessity entrepreneurship social capital human capital institutional voids institutional pluralism grand challenges universal health coverage community health promoters Introduction Despite...

... challenges and outline a research agenda. Global leadership international business multinational enterprise responsible management business and society grand challenges Introduction At the onset of the 21st century, Nancy Adler (2003) called on business leaders aspiring to be known as global leaders...

... grand challenges organizational adaptation future studies Introduction The pace and scope of uncertainty facing today's organizations is rapidly increasing ( Teece et al., 2016 ). While uncertainty has always been a feature of the healthcare environment, both the threat of ( OECD, 2023...

... in relation to CSR specifically within the context of understanding its effective use to resolve grand challenges which the country is facing at present. Grand challenges are complex social, economic and environmental problems which require innovative and collaborative solutions. In this chapter we explore...

...Abstract 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...

...Abstract This paper adds to the literature on societal grand challenges by shifting the focus away from business firms and other formal organizations as key actors in addressing such challenges toward the inherent organizing capacity that lies in the use of language itself. More specifically...