Understanding and Tackling Societal Grand Challenges through Management Research

作者：Gerard George, Jennifer Howard‐Grenville, Aparna Joshi, László Tihanyi · 发表于：Academy of Management Journal · 年份：2016 · DOI：10.5465/amj.2016.4007 · 被引用次数：1992 · 研究领域：Innovation and Socioeconomic Development、Complex Systems and Decision Making、Management and Organizational Studies

“Grand challenges” are formulations of global problems that can be plausibly addressed through coordinated and collaborative effort. In this Special Research Forum, we showcase management research that examines societal problems that individuals, organizations, communities, and nations face around the world. We develop a framework to guide future research to provide systematic empirical evidence on the formulation, articulation, and implementation of grand challenges. We highlight several factors that likely enhance or suppress the attainment of collective goals, and identify representative research questions for future empirical work. In so doing, we aspire to encourage management scholars to engage in tackling broader societal challenges through their collaborative research and collective insight.