Managing Grand Challenges: Theoretical, Empirical, and Methodological Perspectives

Abstract

An important emerging question in strategy and organization literature is how do managers navigate their firms through increasing levels of environmental uncertainty and ambiguity. Such rising levels of uncertainty and ambiguity are particularly associated with grand societal challenges, including climate change, the dramatic increase of socially divisive forces, inequality, and social unrest, and, most recently, global pandemics. The objective of this symposium is to address theoretically, empirically, and methodologically the question of how firms can manage such complexities and, at the same time, help tackling grand challenges.