Grand Challenge Research Articles

Chipping Away at a Grand Challenge: Aligning Goal and Governance to Ease off Homelessness

Chipping Away at a Grand Challenge: Aligning Goal and Governance to Ease off Homelessness

A Procedure for Testing for Tokyo Type 1 Open-Ended Evolution.

Tokyo Type 1 open-ended evolution (OEE) is a category of OEE that includes systems exhibiting the ongoing generation of adaptive novelty and ongoing growth in complexity. It can be considered as a necessary foundation for Tokyo Type 2 OEE (ongoing evolution of evolvability) and Tokyo Type 3 OEE (ongoing generation of major transitions). This article brings together five methods of analysis to form a procedure for testing for Tokyo Type 1 OEE. The procedure is presented as simply as possible, isolated from the complexities of any particular evolutionary system, and with a clear rationale for each step. In developing these steps, we also identify five key challenges in OEE. The last of these (achieving a higher order of complexity growth within a system exhibiting indefinitely scalable complexity) can be considered a grand challenge for Tokyo Type 1 OEE. Promising approaches to this grand challenge include also achieving one or both of Tokyo Types 2 and 3 OEE; this can be seen as one answer to why these other types of OEE are important, providing a unified view of OEE.

A Grand Challenge: Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage

A Grand Challenge: Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage

Theorizing Hybrid Organizing for Grand Challenges

Theorizing Hybrid Organizing for Grand Challenges

The Stakeholder Value Creation and Appropriation Model: A New Tool for Addressing Grand Challenges?

The Stakeholder Value Creation and Appropriation Model: A New Tool for Addressing Grand Challenges?

Interorganizational Networks in the Face of Disruption: Building Resilience for Grand Challenges

Interorganizational Networks in the Face of Disruption: Building Resilience for Grand Challenges

Microfoundations of Knowledge Sharing in a Multisectoral Partnership for Grand Challenges

Microfoundations of Knowledge Sharing in a Multisectoral Partnership for Grand Challenges

Understanding the Dynamics of (De) Regulation and Innovations in Response to Grand Challenges

Understanding the Dynamics of (De) Regulation and Innovations in Response to Grand Challenges

Think Global, Act Local: How Social Entrepreneurs Adapt Business Models to Meet Grand Challenges

Think Global, Act Local: How Social Entrepreneurs Adapt Business Models to Meet Grand Challenges

For the Harvest of Tomorrow: Resynchronizing Across Fields in Response to Grand Challenges

For the Harvest of Tomorrow: Resynchronizing Across Fields in Response to Grand Challenges

Projecting and Innovating for the Future: Tackling Grand Challenges with Projects

Projecting and Innovating for the Future: Tackling Grand Challenges with Projects

Thumbs up! Organizational Action and Learning for Grand Challenges

Thumbs up! Organizational Action and Learning for Grand Challenges

Harnessing Unexpected Events to Tackle Grand Challenges

Harnessing Unexpected Events to Tackle Grand Challenges

Grand Challenges Unpacked: Strategic Implications of Coordination, Competition, and Communication

Grand Challenges Unpacked: Strategic Implications of Coordination, Competition, and Communication

Addressing Grand Challenges Through the Entrepreneurial Capabilities of Commercialization Postdocs

Addressing Grand Challenges Through the Entrepreneurial Capabilities of Commercialization Postdocs

Theorizations of a Grand Challenge: The Danish Tech Industry’s Social-Symbolic Work with Diversity

Theorizations of a Grand Challenge: The Danish Tech Industry’s Social-Symbolic Work with Diversity

Emotion Reconciling to Address Attention Overload in Organizations Tackling Societal Grand Challenge

Emotion Reconciling to Address Attention Overload in Organizations Tackling Societal Grand Challenge

Solving Societal Grand Challenges: A Debate and Future Directions

Solving Societal Grand Challenges: A Debate and Future Directions

Tackling Grand Challenges with Blockchain Innovations

Tackling Grand Challenges with Blockchain Innovations

Orchestrating Communities of Practice for Grand Challenges: A Delicate Balancing Act

Orchestrating Communities of Practice for Grand Challenges: A Delicate Balancing Act