Dear friends and colleagues,
We are pleased to announce our Symposium 'The Relational Dimension of Tackling Grand Challenges: Debating Collaboration and Cooperation' at the 83rd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, August 4-8, 2023, in Boston.
The Symposium will take place on Monday, August 7, 2023, from 10:00 to 11:30 a.m. at the Boston Park Plaza, Gloucester Room.
Abstract:
Inequality, health and well-being, energy decarbonization, sustainability, digitalization – the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) encompass the most pressing societal challenges we are currently facing. Such grand challenges are wicked in the sense that addressing them requires collaboration across sets of diverse and interdependent actors rather than isolated individual (e.g., politicians, activists) or collective actors (e.g., governments, business firms). The final SDG, goal number 17, therefore stresses the crucial character of partnerships for the goals. By bringing together scholars representing different perspectives on collaboration and cooperation with respect to SDG 17, our panel symposium sheds further light on the varied relational aspects of solutions to current societal challenges, addressing both opportunities and pitfalls. It seeks to deepen the conversation between scholars with shared interests but distinct approaches and foci, highlighting both similarities and differences. Embracing new and meaningful relationships, both in research and practice, it is our goal to explore potential avenues for mutual inspiration, learning, and future collaboration.
Panel:
- Joel Gehman | The George Washington University | United States
- Barbara Gray | Pennsylvania State University | United States
- Martina Linnenluecke | University of Technology Sydney | Australia
- Renate Meyer | WU Vienna & CBS Copenhagen | Austria & Denmark
- Ignacio Pavez | Pontificia Universidad Católica De Chile | Chile
We are looking forward to seeing you in Boston!
Best regards,
Johanna Ayrault | Mines Paris-PSL | France | johanna.ayrault@minesparis.psl.eu
Dennis Jancsary | WU Vienna | Austria | dennis.jancsary@wu.ac.at
Stephan Leixnering | WU Vienna | Austria | stephan.leixnering@wu.ac.at
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Dennis Jancsary
Assistant Professor
WU Vienna
Vienna
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