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Tackling Grand Challenges Collaboratively: The Role of Value-driven Sensegiving
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Research in the Sociology of Organizations ; Volume 79
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In this paper, we contribute to the understanding of how entrepreneurs can deploy their values to enable joint action of heterogeneous stakeholders. Such an understanding forms a critical endeavor to tackle grand challenges adequately. Building on sensegiving research, we conducted a single-case study of an entrepreneurial initiative that tackles gender inequality in Lebanon which has been successful in mobilizing heterogeneous stakeholders who ordinarily would not collaborate with each other. We find that the values of the founders were pivotal for the initiative’s success as those values activated latent values of stakeholders through processes of contextualization and enactment. We subsume these processes under the label value-driven sensegiving. As a result of value-driven sensegiving, heterogeneous stakeholders could make sense of the founders’ aspirational vision and the role they could play in it, which paved ways for tackling grand challenges collaboratively. Our study provides insights into the centrality of values for mobilizing heterogeneous stakeholders across boundaries. Therefore, it contributes to the body of work on sensegiving, societal grand challenges, and new forms of organizing.
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Kroeger, A, Siebold, N, Günzel-Jensen, F, Saade, F P & Heikkilä, J-P 2022, Tackling Grand Challenges Collaboratively: The Role of Value-driven Sensegiving. in A A Gümüsay, E Marti, H Trittin-Ulbrich & C Wickert (eds), Organizing for Societal Grand Challenges. vol. 79, Research in the Sociology of Organizations, vol. 79, Emerald, pp. 17-42. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0733-558X20220000079003