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Grand Challenges, Covid‐19 and the Future of Organizational Scholarship

Year: 2020

Type: article

Abstract: Grand challenges are “formulations of global problems that can be plausibly addressed through coordinated and collaborative effort” (George et al., 2016: 1880). By this definition, the Covid-19 pandemic certainly registers as a grand challenge. It is a type of problem scientists have been warning about for decades – a pandemic unleashed when a virus jumps from animals to humans, in part due to habitat loss (IPBES, 2019). The pandemic’s global reach has no bounds; its economic, social, and health consequences affect us all. We all hope this problem can be plausibly addressed through coordinated and collaborative effort. Indeed, the myriad researchers working globally to develop a vaccine suggest extensive coordinated – though not exclusively collaborative (Spinney, 2020) – effort.

Source: Journal of Management Studies

DOI: 10.1111/joms.12647

Author: Jennifer Howard‐Grenville

Institution: University of Cambridge

Language: English

Topic: Management and Organizational Studies

Subfield: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

Field: Business, Management and Accounting

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Partnerships for the goals

Open Access status: hybrid

Estimated APC paid: $3,300