Social entrepreneurship has emerged as an important means of addressing grand
challenges. Although research on the topic has accelerated, scholars have yet to articulate …

Achieving impact from academic research is a challenging, complex, multifaceted, and
interconnected topic with a number of competing priorities and key performance indicators …

Management and organization studies (MOS) scholars have recently brought attention to the
lack of engagement with social equity and justice in tackling grand challenges. We argue …

Emerging economies provide abundant opportunities for entrepreneurship with social
impact, but they often lack the resources to support it. This dilemma has led to the …

Adopting a flat ontology, we discuss how phenomena of societal concern are connected to
organizational routines. We conceptualize grand challenges as large patterns of actions to …

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 …

In this contribution, we theorize generativity as a heuristic for impact-driven management
scholars seeking to address grand challenges through research. We use generativity to …

A growing body of research has cataloged the myriad actors involved in tackling persistent
institutional problems. Yet we lack a theoretical toolkit for explicitly conceptualizing and …

While today it is universally acknowledged that COVID-19 has generated immense
challenges for businesses and societies worldwide, public perceptions varied significantly at …

Experimentation is key in wicked situations; it provides small wins while kee** several
options open for the future. The literature is, however, scarce on how experimentation is …