Public–private and private–private collaboration as pathways for socially beneficial innovation: Evidence from antimicrobial drug-development tasks

B Arslan, G Vasudeva, EB Hirsch - Academy of Management …, 2024 - journals.aom.org
Although public–private collaboration abounds in addressing societal grand challenges,
little is known about its performance relative to private-sector collaboration. Drawing from the …

Prescriptive theorizing in management research: A new impetus for addressing grand challenges

M Hanisch - Journal of Management Studies, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Although management research has a rich tradition of both descriptive and prescriptive
theorizing, the latter is often (and erroneously) viewed as unscientific, purely practice …

The social innovation trap: Critical insights into an emerging field

CM Beckman, J Rosen, J Estrada-Miller… - Academy of …, 2023 - journals.aom.org
We present an integrative approach to social innovation research to build a unified
understanding of this emerging field. Based on a systematic literature review of articles …

Taming unicorns: toward a new normal of responsible entrepreneurship

J Zankl, M Grimes - Academy of Management Review, 2024 - journals.aom.org
While entrepreneurial disruption has proven a source of abundance by way of reforming
markets and legacy institutions, it is also frequently characterized by the displacement of …

Communities for impact: Empowering early-career researchers in the pursuit of impact

M Wierenga, K Heucher, S Chen… - Strategic …, 2025 - journals.sagepub.com
Impact-driven early-career researchers are conducting research that matters and generating
insights that help tackle grand challenges. While this group is passionate about transforming …

Researchers convening dialogue to address grand challenges: Affordances, tensions, and the shift to deep dialogue

R Hamann, W Nilsson, S Drimie… - Strategic …, 2025 - journals.sagepub.com
In seeking concrete and meaningful practical impact on addressing grand challenges, some
management scholars have demonstrated the possibility of researchers convening multi …

When crises meet grand environmental challenges: Navigating intertemporal tensions in European manufacturing family firms

S Jungk, M Waldkirch - Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
The grand environmental challenge of climate change represents one of the key ongoing,
long-term obstacles for organizations. When interrupted by short-term exogenous crises like …

Translating, co-creating, and performing: Reflections on a 15-year journey for impact into the grand challenge of disaster insurance

P Jarzabkowski, R Bednarek, K Chalkias… - Strategic …, 2025 - journals.sagepub.com
The grand challenges society faces compel strategy and organization scholars to engage
meaningfully with practice and contribute toward solution development. As global …

Macro-iterativity: A qualitative multi-arc design for studying complex issues and big questions

C Hoon, AM Baluch - Organizational Research Methods, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
The impact and relevance of our discipline's research is determined by its ability to engage
the big questions of the grand challenges we face today. Our central argument is that we …

Cyclical Change of Partnership Practices in Hybrid Settings

C Weber, M Grewe‐Salfeld, M Göbel… - Journal of …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
Practice‐driven institutionalism (PDI) is a conceptual lens that explains how practices
connect macro‐level phenomena with micro‐level behaviours. Effective practices matter in …