Organization Studies· 2015Q1
Tackling Grand Challenges Pragmatically: Robust Action Revisited
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Organizations can tackle grand challenges like climate change and poverty using three pragmatic strategies: participatory architecture, multivocal inscriptions, and distributed experimentation.
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Key points
- Organizations can address grand challenges through a pragmatic approach rooted in robust action.
- Three core strategies are identified: participatory architecture, multivocal inscriptions, and distributed experimentation.
- These strategies are interconnected and generate outcomes relevant to solving complex global issues.
- The framework offers implications for stakeholder theory, institutional theory, and theories of valuation.
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Abstract
In this article, we theorize a novel approach to addressing the world’s grand challenges based on the philosophical tradition of American pragmatism and the sociological concept of robust action. Grounded in prior empirical organizational research, we identify three robust strategies that organizations can employ in tackling issues such as climate change and poverty alleviation: participatory architecture, multivocal inscriptions and distributed experimentation. We demonstrate how these strategies operate, the manner in which they are linked, the outcomes they generate, and why they are applicable for resolving grand challenges. We conclude by discussing our contributions to research on robust action and grand challenges, as well as some implications for research on stakeholder theory, institutional theory and theories of valuation.
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Field: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
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