Tackling Grand Challenges Collaboratively: The Role of Value-Driven Sensegiving

Arne Kroeger; Nicole Siebold; Franziska Günzel-Jensen; Fouad Philippe Saade; Jukka-Pekka Heikkilä

doi:10.1108/S0733-558X20220000079003

Tackling Grand Challenges Collaboratively: The Role of Value-Driven Sensegiving

Arne Kroeger^*
, Nicole Siebold
, Franziska Günzel-Jensen
, Fouad Philippe Saade
, Jukka-Pekka Heikkilä

^*Corresponding author for this work

Department of Management

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Research in the Sociology of Organizations
Number of pages	26
Volume	79
Publication date	29 Mar 2022
Pages	17-42
ISBN (Print)	978-1-83909-829-1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1108/S0733-558X20220000079003
Publication status	Published - 29 Mar 2022

Series	Research in the Sociology of Organizations
ISSN	0733-558X

Keywords

Female entrepreneurship
Insider–outsider case study
New forms of organizing
Sensegiving
Societal grand challenges
Values

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Research in the Sociology of Organizations. Vol. 79 2022. p. 17-42 (Research in the Sociology of Organizations).

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