Call for Papers EGOS 2020 in Hamburg, July 2–4 2020 Sub-theme 55: Tackling Societal Grand Challenges through Unconventional Forms of Organization Deadline for submission of short papers is Monday, January 14, 2019, 23:59 CET. Convenors: Héloïse Berkowitz CNRS, Toulouse School of Management, France [email protected] Michael Grothe-Hammer Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg, Germany, & Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway [email protected] Annachiara Longoni ESADE Business School, Spain [email protected] Our society faces multiple global challenges such as climate change, digital workforce, algorithmization, datafication, exploitive labor, extreme poverty, gender inequality, mass migration, aging populations, or increasing disaster risks. Scholars have named such problems “grand challenges”, i.e. “specific critical barrier(s) that, if removed, would help solve an important societal problem with a high likelihood of global impact through widespread implementation” (George et al., 2016: 1881). Grand challenges are characterized by wide constellations of interrelated systems and stakeholders, either directly involved or indirectly affected. This deep interconnectedness makes it increasingly difficult to forecast grand challenges’ future developments (Ferraro et al., 2015). Therefore, grand challenges confront society with enormous complexities and uncertainties that call for more adaptive collective action forms to provide solutions. Organizations are related to grand challenges in two crucial respects. First, organizat ions are more often than not directly affected by those challenges and have to cope with them (Vaara & Durand, 2012). For instance, organizations have to deal with natural disasters, manage migration, and implement digital transformations. Second, organizations are fundamental when it comes to tackling grand challenges (Ferraro et al., 2015). Due to their unmatched capabilit ies, organizations can fight poverty and gender inequality, shape digital changes, and ensure decent work environments (cf. Ahrne et al., 2016; Apelt et al., 2017). Therefore, it comes as no surprise that grand challenges are an issue of growing importance in organization studies. Scholars have, for example, investigated organizational responses to issues like climate change (Chaudhury et al., 2016; Schneider et al., 2017; Schüssler et al., 2014), underwater noise pollution and sustainable innovation (Berkowitz, 2018), societal effects of “datification” (Newell & Marabelli, 2015), disaster risk (Grothe-Hammer & Berthod, 2017), sustainability of supply chain (Acquier et al., 2015; Longoni et al., 2014), extreme poverty (Besio & Meyer, 2015), aging societies (Schirmer & Michailakis, 2016), refugee crises (Kornberger et al., 2017), or digital and exploitative labor (Bartley, 2007; Bauer & Gegenhuber, 2015). Given their complexities and wide-reaching effects, grand challenges thereby often evade well-establis hed organizational forms such as conventional bureaucracies. Instead, grand challenges seem to both spawn and require rather fluid and unconventional forms of organization (Brès et al., 2018; Schreyögg & Sydow, 2010). In this respect, we identify at least three possibilities of how unconventional forms of organization relate to societal grand challenges:
Our sub-theme aims at advancing this line of research. We want to explore how the mentioned as well as other unconventional forms of organization can tackle societal grand challenges and/or how grand challenges spawn the emergence of new organizational forms. Submission can be both empirical or theoretical in nature. Possible topics include but are not limited to:
Deadline for submission of short papers is Monday, January 14, 2019, 23:59 CET. You can find the CfP on the EGOS website here. You can find the guidelines for submission here. References
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