How Grand Challenges Link Together

This content explores the link between grand challenges and crisis, focusing on Covid-19 as a significant current challenge. It delves into the complexities and uncertainties of tackling such challenges and emphasizes strategies for engagement and collaborative action to address them effectively.

• Grand Challenges
• Crisis Management
• Covid-19
• Collaborative Action
• Uncertainty

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1. Institut fr Organisation How Grand Challenges Link Together Dr. Ali Aslan G m say University of Hamburg Humboldt Institute for Internet & Society @guemuesay 1

2. Institut fr Organisation How does this crisis relate to other grand challenges? 2

3. Institut fr Organisation Covid19 as a Grand Challenge Complex Uncertain Evaluative 3 facets Ferraro, F., Etzion, D., & Gehman, D. (2015) Tackling Grand Challenges Pragmatically: Robust Action Revisited. Organization Studies 35(39) pp. 363-390. 3

4. Institut fr Organisation Engaging with grand challenges Participatory architecture Multivocal inscription Distributed experimentation 3 strategies Ferraro, F., Etzion, D., & Gehman, D. (2015) Tackling Grand Challenges Pragmatically: Robust Action Revisited. Organization Studies 35(39) pp. 363-390. 4

5. Institut fr Organisation Grand ChALLenges Sachs, J.D. et al. (2019) Six Transformations to achieve Sustainable Development Goals. Nature Sustainability 2(9): pp. 805-814. 5

6. Budgetary Business Education Employment Family Finance Governance Health(care) Humanitarian Information Insurance Petrol Poverty Real estate Security Supply chain Social welfare Travel Institut f r Organisation Covid19 as a Crisis 6

7. Institut fr Organisation Covid19 & Climate Change 7

8. Institut fr Organisation volatile uncertain complex ambiguous paradoxical vucap G m say, A.A. (2019) Leading through vucap. http://guemuesay.com/2019/08/20/leading- through-vucap/ 8

9. Institut fr Organisation Engaging with Covid19 Coordinated, collaborative & collective Robust action (Re)active crisis management Participation, Multivocality, Experimentation Embracing vucap Link to other grand challenges not worse than before better than before Mindsets, Organizations & Societies 9

10. Institut fr Organisation Literature Core reading Ferraro, F., Etzion, D., & Gehman, J. (2015). Tackling grand challenges pragmatically: Robust action revisited. Organization Studies, 36(3), pp. 363-390. SSRN Contemporary news article Watts, J. & Kommenda, N. (2020). Coronavirus pandemic leading to huge drop in air pollution. The Guardian, March 23. Background readings George, G., Howard-Grenville, J., Joshi, A., & Tihanyi, L. (2016). Understanding and tackling societal grand challenges through management research. Academy of Management Journal, 59(6), 1880-1895. PDF Sachs, J. D., Schmidt-Traub G., Mazzucato, M., Messner, D., Nakicenovic, N., Rockstr m, J. (2019): Six transformations to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Nature Sustainability, in print. PDF 10

11. Institut fr Organisation Thank you. Dr. Ali Aslan G m say University of Hamburg Humboldt Institute for Internet & Society @guemuesay 11