Exploring inter-organizational paradoxes: Methodological lessons from a study of a grand challenge

A Resource-Based Theory of Strategic Alliances

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A Resource-Based Theory of Strategic Alliances

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Exploring Paradox: Toward a More Comprehensive Guide

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Exploitation-Exploration Tensions and Organizational Ambidexterity: Managing Paradoxes of Innovation

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Understanding and Tackling Societal Grand Challenges through Management Research

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Toward a Theory of Paradox: A Dynamic equilibrium Model of Organizing

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Paradox research in management science: Looking back to move forward

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Organizational Change and Managerial Sensemaking: Working Through Paradox

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Tackling Grand Challenges Pragmatically: Robust Action Revisited

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Navigating Paradox as a Mechanism of Change and Innovation in Hybrid Organizations

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Building Inclusive Markets in Rural Bangladesh: How Intermediaries Work Institutional Voids

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Contradictions, Dialectics, and Paradoxes in Organizations: A Constitutive Approach

Putnam, L. L., Fairhurst, G. T., & Banghart, S. (2016) · Academy of Management Annals · doi:10.1080/19416520.2016.1162421 · Cited by 1,116 · see citing works

Contradictions, Dialectics, and Paradoxes in Organizations: A Constitutive Approach

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Managing Social-Business Tensions: A Review and Research Agenda for Social Enterprise

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Microfoundations of Organizational Paradox: The Problem Is How We Think about the Problem

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Dynamic Decision Making: A Model of Senior Leaders Managing Strategic Paradoxes

Smith, W. K. (2014) · Academy of Management Journal · doi:10.5465/amj.2011.0932 · Cited by 707 · see citing works

Bowing before Dual Gods: How Structured Flexibility Sustains Organizational Hybridity

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Responding to competing strategic demands: How organizing, belonging, and performing paradoxes coevolve

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Boundary Organizations: Enabling Collaboration among Unexpected Allies

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Managing public–private megaprojects: Paradoxes, complexity, and project design

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Stabilizing the Boundary between US Politics and Science:

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Acting globally but thinking locally? The enduring influence of local communities on organizations

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Discourse, Field-Configuring Events, and Change in Organizations and Institutional Fields: Narratives of DDT and the Stockholm Convention

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Paradox theory and the paradox of success

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The Oxford Handbook of Organizational Paradox

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Institutional complexity and paradox theory: Complementarities of competing demands

Smith, W. K., & Tracey, P. (2016) · Strategic Organization · doi:10.1177/1476127016638565 · Cited by 298 · see citing works

Seeing the Forest and the Trees: How a Systems Perspective Informs Paradox Research

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On Melting Summits: The Limitations of Field-Configuring Events as Catalysts of Change in Transnational Climate Policy

Schüßler, E., Rüling, C.-C., & Wittneben, B. B. F. (2013) · Academy of Management Journal · doi:10.5465/amj.2011.0812 · Cited by 242 · see citing works

Conferences as venues for the configuration of emerging organizational fields: The case of cochlear implants

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We Have To Do This and That? You Must be Joking: Constructing and Responding to Paradox Through Humor

Jarzabkowski, P. A., & Lê, J. K. (2016) · Organization Studies · doi:10.1177/0170840616640846 · Cited by 220 · see citing works

Becoming Salient: The TMT Leader’s Role in Shaping the Interpretive Context of Paradoxical Tensions

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How does a Grand Challenge Become Displaced? Explaining the Duality of Field Mobilization

Grodal, S., & O'Mahony, S. C. (2017) · Academy of Management Journal · doi:10.5465/amj.2015.0890 · Cited by 183 · see citing works

Transcendence through Rhetorical Practices: Responding to Paradox in the Science Sector

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Moving Climate Information off the Shelf: Boundary Chains and the Role of RISAs as Adaptive Organizations

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Conducting global team-based ethnography: Methodological challenges and practical methods

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The Discursive Construction of Strategists' Subjectivities: Towards a Paradox Lens on Strategy

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Quo vadis, paradox? Centripetal and centrifugal forces in theory development

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Having your cake and eating it too

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The International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) in a Changing Landscape of Vaccine Development: A Public/Private Partnership as Knowledge Broker and Integrator

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Estimating the uninsured losses due to extreme weather events and implications for informal sector vulnerability: a case study of Mumbai, India

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Making a Market for Acts of God

Jarzabkowski, P. A., Bednarek, R., & Spee, P. (2015) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199664764.001.0001 · Cited by 76 · see citing works

Toward a social practice theory of relational competing

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Making a market for acts of God: the practice of risk trading in the global reinsurance industry

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Dualities, Dialectics, and Paradoxes in Organizational Life

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Methods of Paradox

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Paradox in everyday practice: applying practice-theoretical principles to paradox

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Between state and market: protection gap entities and catastrophic risk

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Alternate Prisms for Pluralism and Paradox in Organizations

Comeau‐Vallée, M., Denis, J., Normandin, J., & Therrien, M. (2017) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198754428.013.11 · Cited by 6 · see citing works

Exploring Paradox: Toward a More Comprehensive Guide

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Artificial Intelligence and Management: The Automation–Augmentation Paradox

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Tackling wicked problems in strategic management with systems thinking

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Corporate Carbon and Financial Performance Revisited

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Partnering for Grand Challenges: A Review of Organizational Design Considerations in Public–Private Collaborations

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Grand challenges in management research: Attributes, achievements, and advancement

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Managing Impressions Rather Than Emissions: Volkswagen and the false mastery of paradox

Gaim, M., Clegg, S. R., & Cunha, M. P. E. (2019) · Organization Studies · doi:10.1177/0170840619891199 · Cited by 109 · see citing works

Grand challenges and platform ecosystems: Scaling solutions for wicked ecological and societal problems

Ritala, P. (2023) · Journal of Product Innovation Management · doi:10.1111/jpim.12682 · Cited by 110 · see citing works

The future of grand challenges research: Retiring a hopeful concept and endorsing research principles

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Enabling Rapid Financial Response to Disasters: Knotting and Reknotting Multiple Paradoxes in Interorganizational Systems

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Open innovation: status quo and quo vadis - an analysis of a research field

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Seeking sustainable futures in marketing and consumer research

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Double Weaving: A Bottom-Up Process of Connecting Locations and Scales to Mitigate Grand Challenges

Chatterjee, A., Ghosh, A., & Leca, B. L. (2022) · Academy of Management Journal · doi:10.5465/amj.2019.1348 · Cited by 73 · see citing works

Inter-Organizational Paradox Management: How national business systems affect responses to paradox along a global value chain

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Triggers, Traps, and Disconnect: How Governance Obstacles Hinder Progress on Grand Challenges

Couture, F., Jarzabkowski, P. A., & Lê, J. K. (2022) · Academy of Management Journal · doi:10.5465/amj.2020.1716 · Cited by 56 · see citing works

Mechanisms and Dynamics in the Interplay of Trust and Distrust: Insights from project-based collaboration

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Alliance management capabilities in sustainability‐oriented collaboration: Problematization and new research directions

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Surfing the Grand Challenges Wave in Management Scholarship: How Did We Get Here, Where are We Now, and What's Next?

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Managing Competing Demands: Coping With the Inclusiveness–Efficiency Paradox in Cross-Sector Partnerships

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Scientific mapping in Scopus with Biblioshiny: A bibliometric analysis of organizational tensions

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Surviving Covid‐19: The Role of Human Resource Managers in Shaping Organizational Responses to Societal Paradox

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Coopetitive dynamics, really? Towards an interaction perspective on coopetition

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On the Use of Paradox for Generating Theoretical Contributions in Management and Organization Research

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Disaster Insurance Reimagined

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Strategies to enhance the corporate innovation resilience in digital era: A cross-organizational collaboration perspective

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Beyond new space: Changing organizational forms, collaborative innovation and public and semi-public domains

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Blinded by the Light: A critique on the universality, normativity, and hegemony of paradox theory and research

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Paradoxical Tensions as a Double-Edged Sword: Analysing the Development of Platform Cooperatives in the European Gig Economy

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Structure and meaning in strategic paradoxes: Exploring historical context in the emergence of agrifood standards

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Scale in Research on Grand Challenges

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Navigating multiple contexts to integrate system transformation programs

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A paradox perspective on talent management: a multi-level analysis of paradoxes and their responses in talent management

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Valuing What You Risk and Risking What You Value: Advancing a research agenda for risk studies

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We are all pattern makers! How a flat ontology connects organizational routines and grand challenges

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Climate Change Adaptation: New Vistas for Management Research

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Resourcing Goal-directed Networks: Toward A Practice-based Perspective

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The Role of Partnership Portfolios for Sustainability in Addressing the Stability-Change Paradox: Dong/Orsted’s Transition From Fossil Fuels to Renewables

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Strategies for Generating Deliberately Emergent Qualitative Research Designs

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Organizational resilience as paradox management: A systematic review of the literature

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Outcomes of Paradox Responses in Corporate Sustainability: A Qualitative Meta-Analysis

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Tackling Grand Challenges: Insights and Contributions From Practice Theories

Danner‐Schröder, A., Mahringer, C. A., Sele, K., Jarzabkowski, P. A., Rouleau, L., Feldman, M. S., Pentland, B. T., Huysman, M., Sergeeva, A., Gherardi, S., et al. (2025) · Journal of Management Inquiry · doi:10.1177/10564926241292262 · Cited by 16 · see citing works

Different Reasons for Different Responses: A Review of Incumbents’ Adaptation in Carbon-Intensive Industries

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The Value of Interdisciplinary Research to Advance Paradox in Organization Theory*

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Grand Challenges: A Way Out of the Ivory Tower for Management Academic Discipline

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How Paradoxes Shape Members and the Member–Organization Relationship: An Identity Threat Perspective

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The dark side of public-private partnerships: Enforced hybridity and power dynamics in fighting financial crime

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Delivering impact via the ebb-and-flow of a research team: Reflection on a long-term program of research into a global societal challenge*

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“What may be”: Inspiration from Mary Parker Follett for paradox theory

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Mobilizing landscapes of practice to address grand challenges

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Navigating grand challenges: How environmental dynamism shapes robust action and business model innovation

Talebian, M., Fattoum, A., & Molz, R. (2025) · Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal · doi:10.1002/sej.70001 · Cited by 11 · see citing works

Fit for solving the grand challenges? From organization design choices to ecosystem solutions

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The role of innovation in for‐profit firms' tackling of grand challenges: Special issue editorial

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Problematizing the Cooperative Firm: A Marxian View on Paradoxes, Dialectics, and Contradictions

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Collaboration for Tackling Grand Challenges: A Curated Conversation

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SISP as practice: De-isolating SISP activity across multiple levels

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Crossing Boundaries: Connecting Religion and Paradox for Leadership and Organization Research

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Open strategizing and organizational resilience considering the environmental uncertainty

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Business model innovation for reducing uncertainty in sustainability transitions: A case study of the wood construction industry

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Navigating the Moral-Economic Paradox of Diversity Management: Plurality of Stakeholder Perceptions and Coping Strategies

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Translating, co-creating, and performing: Reflections on a 15-year journey for impact into the grand challenge of disaster insurance

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Tidying Up the Concept of Grand Challenges: A Bibliometric Analysis

Gariel, C., & Bartel‐Radic, A. (2024) · M n gement · doi:10.37725/mgmt.2024.8884 · Cited by 9 · see citing works

Strategizing Together for a Better World: Institutional, Paradox and Practice Theories in Conversation

Albertsen, R. R., Ansari, S., Heucher, K., Krautzberger, M., Langley, A., Reinecke, P., Slawinski, N., & Vaara, E. (2023) · Journal of management inquiry · doi:10.1177/10564926231210238 · Cited by 6 · see citing works

Managing multi-stakeholder co-creation to address grand challenges: The role of paradox management capabilities

Silva, M. D., Rossi, F., & Paunov, C. (2025) · Research Policy · doi:10.1016/j.respol.2025.105408 · Cited by 8 · see citing works

Managing the identity paradox in inter‐organisational collaborations

Kourti, I. (2021) · European Management Review · doi:10.1111/emre.12485 · Cited by 8 · see citing works

The Right to Success: Paradoxical tensions between contested logics in a multi-sectoral collaboration to promote scientific excellence in Israel

David, Y. B., & Rubel‐Lifschitz, T. (2023) · Organization Studies · doi:10.1177/01708406231185976 · Cited by 8 · see citing works

Implementing Interdisciplinary Paradox Research

Bednarek, R., Cunha, M. P. E., Schad, J., & Smith, W. K. (2021) · Emerald Group Publishing Limited eBooks · doi:10.1108/s0733-558x2021000073b002 · Cited by 8 · see citing works

Agreeing to Disagree: Linear-Circular and Public-Private Tensions in the Transformation to Circular Business Models

Stål, H. I., Manzhynski, S., & Bengtsson, M. E. (2024) · Organization & Environment · doi:10.1177/10860266241304310 · Cited by 7 · see citing works

Enabling Local Solutions to Global Challenges: The interplay between paradox knots and paradox salience in an NGO working in Uganda

Waldner, C. J., Schrage, S., & Rasche, A. (2025) · Organization Studies · doi:10.1177/01708406251314586 · Cited by 7 · see citing works

Deparadoxification and value focus in sharing ventures: Concealing paradoxes in strategic decision-making

Schneckenberg, D., Roth, S., & Velamuri, V. K. (2023) · Journal of Business Research · doi:10.1016/j.jbusres.2023.113883 · Cited by 7 · see citing works

When Global is Not Enough: Applying a Paradox Lens to Sustainability Transitions in Interorganizational Systems

Heucher, K., Schrage, S., & Abosag, I. (2024) · Journal of International Management · doi:10.1016/j.intman.2024.101186 · Cited by 6 · see citing works

Fraught with tension? A machine-learning approach to termination traits of public corporations in English and German local governments

Rackwitz, M. (2023) · Public Management Review · doi:10.1080/14719037.2023.2204323 · Cited by 6 · see citing works

Organizing long duration interdependence in Lloyd’s of London: Persistence in a part-whole paradox of organizing

Kilminster, W., Jarzabkowski, P. A., & Giudici, A. (2024) · Business History · doi:10.1080/00076791.2023.2289580 · Cited by 6 · see citing works

Introducing the inverted Icarus paradox in business history – Evidence from David and Goliath in the Swedish telecommunications industry 1981–1990

Eriksson, K., Lakomaa, E., Nykvist, R., & Sandström, C. G. (2024) · Business History · doi:10.1080/00076791.2023.2292134 · Cited by 6 · see citing works

Logic Plasticity and Bounded Custodial Work in Inter-Institutional Projects

Fortin, I. (2023) · Journal of Management Inquiry · doi:10.1177/10564926231165680 · Cited by 5 · see citing works

Reexamining the relationship between knowledge paradox and collaborative performance

Huang, M.-C., Tsai, M.-K., Chen, T., Chiu, Y.-P., & You, W.-J. (2024) · Journal of Knowledge Management · doi:10.1108/jkm-09-2023-0910 · Cited by 5 · see citing works

OPEN STRATEGIZING E INCERTEZA PERCEBIDA: O ENFOQUE ESTRATÉGICO E CONTINGENCIAL NO ENFRENTAMENTO À CRISE CAUSADA PELA PANDEMIA DO COVID-19

Lavarda, R. A. B., Perito, B. Z., Gnigler, L. M., & da Rocha, R. V. C. (2021) · REAd Revista Eletrônica de Administração (Porto Alegre) · doi:10.1590/1413-2311.311.104094 · Cited by 5 · see citing works

Strategizing for grand challenges: economic development and governance traditions in Malaysian local government

Hughes, J., Orr, K., & Yusoff, M. (2021) · International Review of Administrative Sciences · doi:10.1177/00208523211048167 · Cited by 5 · see citing works

Navigating the business-society paradox in interorganizational collaboration: Emergence and mitigation of vicious cycles

van de Sande, L., Lauche, K., Blažević, V., & Ziggers, G. W. (2025) · Strategic Organization · doi:10.1177/14761270251340821 · Cited by 4 · see citing works

From Collective Dilemmas to Collective Solutions: An Integrative Framework and Research Agenda for Collective Action and Sustainability Research

Hertel, C. J., Vedula, S., Bacq, S. C., & Rocchino, R. (2026) · Academy of Management Annals · doi:10.5465/annals.2024.0282 · Cited by 4 · see citing works

Tracing the affective journey of an interorganizational network: Positive and negative cycles of relational energy in a network space

Fortwengel, J. (2023) · Scandinavian Journal of Management · doi:10.1016/j.scaman.2023.101280 · Cited by 4 · see citing works

Strategizing and “strategifying” for the common good: the case of deprived neighborhoods in the Swedish city of Gothenburg

Brorström, S., & Styhre, A. (2023) · International Public Management Journal · doi:10.1080/10967494.2023.2173684 · Cited by 3 · see citing works

Balancing Depth and Breadth to Understand Macro Phenomena: Some Advice for Analyzing Global Qualitative Datasets

Bednarek, R. (2024) · The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science · doi:10.1177/00218863241260435 · Cited by 3 · see citing works

Hybrid vs. in-person learning: The displacement of boundaries in customized executive programs

Retana, R. C. (2024) · The International Journal of Management Education · doi:10.1016/j.ijme.2024.101064 · Cited by 3 · see citing works

Capturing the breadth of value creation with science fiction storytelling: Evidence from smart service design workshops

Fritzsche, A., & Soeldner, J.-H. (2024) · Technovation · doi:10.1016/j.technovation.2024.103139 · Cited by 3 · see citing works

Technology-enabled organization designs for tackling the grand challenges: the case of Giga

Tatarinov, K., & Ambos, T. C. (2025) · Journal of Organization Design · doi:10.1007/s41469-024-00175-z · Cited by 3 · see citing works

Striking a Balance: Navigating Tensions Between Collective and Member Goals in Boundary Organizations

Zobel, A., & Comello, S. D. (2025) · Organization Science · doi:10.1287/orsc.2022.16973 · Cited by 3 · see citing works

Lewis, Marianne W.: Paradoxes of Change and Changing through Paradox

Schad, J., & Miron‐Spektor, E. (2020) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-3-319-49820-1_114-1 · Cited by 3 · see citing works

Syndicated leadership in urban development projects: the case of the River City Gothenburg project

Styhre, A., & Brorström, S. (2022) · Construction Management and Economics · doi:10.1080/01446193.2022.2137881 · Cited by 3 · see citing works

Macro-iterativity: A Qualitative Multi-arc Design for Studying Complex Issues and Big Questions

Hoon, C., & Baluch, A. M. (2023) · Organizational Research Methods · doi:10.1177/10944281231166649 · Cited by 3 · see citing works

Transitioning through a crisis: industrial customer responses to a green technology innovation scheme

Gharib, A. M., Palmer, M., Gidley, D., & Zhang, M. (2024) · Industry and Innovation · doi:10.1080/13662716.2024.2364701 · Cited by 3 · see citing works

Zooming Out and Zooming In: Studying Social Innovation Through Systems Thinking and Leverage Points

Zankl, J., & Grimes, M. G. (2025) · Emerald Group Publishing Limited eBooks · doi:10.1108/s0733-558x20250000096008 · Cited by 3 · see citing works

Call for Papers – Special Issue: Tackling grand challenges with projects

Ika, L. A., & Etzion, D. (2024) · International Journal of Project Management · doi:10.1016/j.ijproman.2024.102560 · Cited by 3 · see citing works

An Economies-of-Worth Perspective on Strategy as Practice: Dealing with Strategic Pluralism through Legitimation, Localization and Materialization

Gond, J., Leca, B. L., Cloutier, C., & Grattarola, A. (2025) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/9781009216067.017 · Cited by 2 · see citing works

Forum: Political Polarization and Organizational Communication

Zorn, T. E. (2025) · Management Communication Quarterly · doi:10.1177/08933189251344607 · Cited by 2 · see citing works

Sustainability – A fading imperative? Proposing a framework of issue maturation into grand challenges

Lock, I. (2025) · Public Relations Review · doi:10.1016/j.pubrev.2025.102601 · Cited by 2 · see citing works

When Collaboration Bridges or Breaks: A Systematic Review of Emerging Trends in Supply Chain Resilience and Sustainability

Prasetia, A. C. G., & Urciuoli, L. (2026) · Business Strategy and the Environment · doi:10.1002/bse.70846 · Cited by 2 · see citing works

Social and Healthcare Policy: Taming Complexities?

Laitinen, I., Stenvall, J., & Kuoppakangas, P. (2023) · Governance and public management · doi:10.1007/978-3-031-34862-4_15 · Cited by 2 · see citing works

Municipal Policy Responses to Violent Extremism: An Institutional Theory Perspective

Malmros, R. A. (2023) · Nordic Journal of Social Research · doi:10.18261/njsr.14.1.5 · Cited by 2 · see citing works

An analysis of stakeholders’ aspiration needs for grand challenges

Albert-Cromarias, A., & Pinglot, A. (2024) · Management Research Review · doi:10.1108/mrr-08-2023-0611 · Cited by 2 · see citing works

Coopetition in practice: Managerial practices for navigating cooperation with competitors

Gur, F. A., & Greckhamer, T. (2025) · European Management Journal · doi:10.1016/j.emj.2025.01.003 · Cited by 2 · see citing works

Conceptualising the Socio-material Context: An Ethical Enquiry into the Contextual Materialisation of Paradoxes in Transport Logistics

Mies, A., Gruchmann, T., & Gold, S. (2025) · Journal of Business Ethics · doi:10.1007/s10551-025-05994-y · Cited by 2 · see citing works

Making the Impossible Possible: Paradoxical Processes of Reconstructing a Grand Challenge

Jarzabkowski, P. A., Bednarek, R., Chalkias, K., & Cacciatori, E. (2020) · Academy of Management Proceedings · doi:10.5465/ambpp.2020.16540abstract

Tracing Paradoxes: The Nonlinear Movement of Paradoxical Tension in Interorganizational Partnerships

Lê, J. K., & Koli, M. (2022) · Academy of Management Proceedings · doi:10.5465/ambpp.2022.16076abstract

Unpacking the Many Natures of Organizational Paradox: From Transformative Dynamics to Bundles of Paradoxes in Grand Challenges

Torres Nadal, F. (2023) · Tesis Doctorals en Xarxa (Consorci de Serveis Universitaris de Catalunya)

How Organizing Matters for Societal Grand Challenges

Gümüşay, A. A., Marti, E., Trittin‐Ulbrich, H., & Wickert, C. M. J. (2022) · Emerald Group Publishing Limited eBooks · doi:10.1108/s0733-558x20220000079002 · Cited by 27 · see citing works

Organizing beyond organizations for the common good : confronting societal challenges through process studies

provided, N. A. (2025) · University of Warwick · doi:10.82444/warw.33900046