@techreport{MairGegenhuberLuehrsenetal., type = {Working Paper}, author = {Mair, Johanna and Gegenhuber, Thomas and L{\"u}hrsen, Ren{\´e} and Th{\"a}ter, Laura}, title = {UpdateDeutschland: Open Social Innovation weiterdenken und lernen - Learning Report}, doi = {10.48462/opus4-4204}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b1570-opus4-42049}, pages = {53}, abstract = {Der vorliegende Learning Report ist Ergebnis des Begleitforschungsprojekts zum Open Social Innovation Format UpdateDeutschland. Ziel ist es, alle Interessierten mit Konzepten, Sprache und Erkenntnissen auszustatten, um Open Social Innovation besser zu verstehen und gemeinsam weiterzuentwickeln. Der Learning Report bietet einen {\"U}berblick {\"u}ber UpdateDeutschland und erkl{\"a}rt anhand von UpdateDeutschland den Open Social Innovation Prozess; analysiert Daten rund um Herausforderungen, Teilhabe und Aktivit{\"a}t, um das Verst{\"a}ndnis der Open Social Innovation Methode bei UpdateDeutschland zu vertiefen; zeigt vier verschiedene Pfade auf, die versinnbildlichen, wie bei UpdateDeutschland Wirkung entstanden ist; beleuchtet welchen breiteren Nutzen und welche Herausforderungen sich f{\"u}r Verwaltungen im Laufe des Prozesses ergaben; besch{\"a}ftigt sich mit vier zentralen organisatorischen Herausforderungen; und bietet eine kritische Reflexion {\"u}ber Open Social Innovation und zeigt das transformative Potential auf.}, language = {de} } @article{GegenhuberMairLuehrsenetal., author = {Gegenhuber, Thomas and Mair, Johanna and L{\"u}hrsen, Ren{\´e} and Th{\"a}ter, Laura}, title = {Orchestrating distributed data governance in open social innovation}, series = {Information and Organization}, volume = {33}, journal = {Information and Organization}, number = {1}, issn = {1471-7727}, doi = {10.1016/j.infoandorg.2023.100453}, abstract = {Open Social Innovation (OSI) involves the collaboration of multiple stakeholders to generate ideas, and develop and scale solutions to make progress on societal challenges. In an OSI project, stakeholders share data and information, utilize it to better understand a problem, and combine data with digital technologies to create digitally-enabled solutions. Consequently, data governance is essential for orchestrating an OSI project to facilitate the coordination of innovation. Because OSI brings multiple stakeholders together, and each stakeholder participates voluntarily, data governance in OSI has a distributed nature. In this essay we put forward a framework consisting of three dimensions allowing an inquiry into the effectiveness of such distributed data governance: (1) openness (i.e., freely sharing data and information), (2) accountability (i.e., willingness to be held responsible and provide justifications for one's conduct) and (3) power (i.e., resourceful actors' ability to impact other stakeholder's actions). We apply this framework to reflect on the OSI project \#WirVsVirus ("We versus virus" in English), to illustrate the challenges in organizing effective distributed data governance, and derive implications for research and practice.}, language = {en} } @article{JakobSadehMair, author = {Jakob Sadeh, Linda and Mair, Johanna}, title = {Reinforcing Political Inequality Through Diversity Initiatives: A Field-Level Perspective}, series = {Journal of Management}, journal = {Journal of Management}, issn = {0149-2063}, doi = {10.1177/01492063231163579}, abstract = {Although diversity initiatives are considered prominent vessels for addressing inequality and despite massive investments in them, inequality inside organizations persists. Assessments of diversity initiatives often center on economic inequality and view organizations as closed systems to explain why they fail. Building on a 19-month field-level ethnography of the diversity field in Israel targeting Palestinian employment, we examine political inequality and show how it is perpetuated even as economic inequality is dealt with. Our findings reveal that the field is complicit in creating a chasm between the economic and political spheres by positioning diversity initiatives as a means to tackle economic inequality. The field's infrastructure and dominant discourse reinforce this chasm and thereby make political inequality invisible, generating false consciousness. Our study challenges the preoccupation of diversity scholarship with universal best practices, suggests avenues for assessing and managing diversity initiatives while taking stock of political inequality, and directs future research to delve into the relationship between the economic and the political in organizations and our societies.}, language = {en} } @article{BuenderRathertMair, author = {B{\"u}nder, Tobias and Rathert, Nikolas and Mair, Johanna}, title = {Sustaining the Integration of Social Objectives Over Time: A Case-Based Analysis of Access to Medicine in the Pharmaceutical Industry}, series = {Business \& Society}, journal = {Business \& Society}, doi = {10.1177/00076503231182667}, abstract = {Companies increasingly seek to strategically integrate social objectives in commercial activities to address societal challenges, yet little is known about how companies can sustain such a commitment over time. To address this question, we conduct a case-based, abductive study of two pharmaceutical companies widely considered industry leaders in facilitating access to medicine over a 20-year period (2000-2019). We identify product and operation-level integration as distinct types of integration efforts enacted by these companies. Tracing the intraorganizational dynamics associated with these efforts, we theorize that sustained integration is contingent on companies' ability to respond to and address the challenges specific to product and operation-level integration. The theoretical framework we develop contributes to an emerging debate on the potential of companies to make progress on societal challenges by strategically integrating social objectives, including but not limited to those related to global health.}, language = {en} } @incollection{BuenderRathertMair, author = {B{\"u}nder, Tobias and Rathert, Nikolas and Mair, Johanna}, title = {Understanding firm- and field-level change toward sustainable development: insights from the pharmaceutical industry and access to medicines, 1960‒2020}, series = {Handbook on the Business of Sustainability}, booktitle = {Handbook on the Business of Sustainability}, editor = {George, Gerard and Haas, Martine and Joshi, Havovi and McGahan, Anita and Tracey, Paul}, publisher = {Edward Elgar}, address = {Cheltenham}, isbn = {9781839105333}, doi = {10.4337/9781839105340.00025}, publisher = {Hertie School}, pages = {300 -- 319}, abstract = {Insufficient access to medicines is a persistent global problem that affects billions of people in low- and middle-income countries. In this chapter, we use access to medicines as a case to understand how business can become instrumental in making progress on persistent and global problems we associate with sustainable development. We examine the emergence and evolution of access to medicines as a mandate for the pharmaceutical industry to contribute to sustainable development. More specifically, we trace the historical developments of corporate social initiatives in the industry and revisit existing research on access to medicines in management and related fields. We then introduce three distinct analytical perspectives - field emergence and change, firm heterogeneity, organizational processes - to examine access to medicine, expose managerial challenges and offer a research agenda that helps to advance research on access to medicines and, more generally, on corporate efforts to address pressing global problems subsumed under the Sustainable Development Goals.}, language = {en} } @article{SeelosMairTraeger, author = {Seelos, Christian and Mair, Johanna and Traeger, Charlotte}, title = {The future of grand challenges research: Retiring a hopeful concept and endorsing research principles}, series = {International Journal of Management Reviews}, volume = {25}, journal = {International Journal of Management Reviews}, number = {2}, doi = {10.1111/ijmr.12324}, pages = {251 -- 269}, abstract = {Editorial notes in leading management journals have urged scholars to address Grand Challenges (GC) as an opportunity for producing knowledge that matters for society. This review explores whether current conceptualizations of GC support a productive path for management and organizational scholarship by guiding empirical inquiry, facilitating cumulative theory development, and informing practice. We systematically examine scholarly articles, calls for papers, and editorial notes published in management journals for consistency in how researchers use and define the concept of GC and the scope of associated phenomena and attributes. We find three prominent conceptual architectures in use: discursive, family resemblance, and phenomenon driven. The variety and incoherence of current uses of the GC concept and the lack of efforts to improve its analytical competence lead us to suggest its retirement. Instead, we propose building on the enthusiasm around GC research and using GC as a term to define research principles that collectively help align research efforts and improve theoretical development and practice. The principles we propose capture a genuine origin story for management research on GC.}, language = {en} } @article{MairGegenhuberThaeteretal., author = {Mair, Johanna and Gegenhuber, Thomas and Th{\"a}ter, Laura and L{\"u}hrsen, Ren{\´e}}, title = {Pathways and mechanisms for catalyzing social impact through Orchestration: Insights from an open social innovation project}, series = {Journal of Business Venturing Insights}, volume = {19}, journal = {Journal of Business Venturing Insights}, doi = {10.1016/j.jbvi.2022.e00366}, abstract = {Within the entrepreneurship literature, there is a growing interest in understanding collective entrepreneurial approaches to tackling societal challenges. In this study, we examine the orchestration of collective action in an open social innovation project bringing together public administrations, citizens and organized civil society to collaboratively address several societal challenges. Analyzing data generated in-situ and in real-time over the entire duration of the project we show how social impact orchestration can generate impact through four pathways: lead user focus, solution focus, problem focus, and ecosystem focus. For each pathway, we show how orchestration enhanced the impact potential of stakeholders involved by enabling learning and scaling. Our study contributes to the literature on impact entrepreneurship and advances knowledge on orchestrating innovation for social impact.}, language = {en} } @article{ClaassenChoiMair, author = {Claassen, Casper Hendrik and Choi, Jung Eun and Mair, Johanna}, title = {Forging a Local Social Economy: On the Institutional Work of Local Governments in South Korea}, series = {Public Performance \& Management Review}, journal = {Public Performance \& Management Review}, issn = {1530-9576}, doi = {10.1080/15309576.2023.2243467}, abstract = {This study investigates the strategies local governments can employ to stimulate the growth of the local social economy sector—a sector associated with improving residents' subjective well-being. Acknowledging the under-explored but potentially pivotal role of local government as a catalyst, our research uses an institutionalist lens—focusing on institutional work, support, and public-sector entrepreneurship—to examine how local governments can encourage the establishment of social economy organizations. We adopt a Partial Least Squares Model-Structural Equation Modeling approach to analyze data from 69 South Korean urban metropolitan local governments between 2018 and 2020. Our findings reveal a significant positive relationship between the regulatory, administrative, and intermediary support mechanisms implemented by local governments and the scale of the local social economy. By integrating public-sector entrepreneurship with institutional perspectives, our findings enrich existing literature and provide insight into the strategic initiatives local governments can adopt to foster social entrepreneurship.}, language = {en} } @article{MairMenaOezcelik, author = {Mair, Johanna and Mena, S{\´e}bastien and {\"O}zcelik, Melisa}, title = {Political innovation: Prevention is better than cure}, series = {Alliance}, volume = {28}, journal = {Alliance}, number = {4}, pages = {54 -- 56}, language = {en} } @article{GegenhuberMair, author = {Gegenhuber, Thomas and Mair, Johanna}, title = {Open social innovation: taking stock and moving forward}, series = {Industry and Innovation}, volume = {31}, journal = {Industry and Innovation}, number = {1}, doi = {10.1080/13662716.2023.2271863}, pages = {130 -- 157}, abstract = {Open forms of organising innovation bear great potential to address societal challenges, such as the climate crisis. Existing approaches to open social innovation (OSI) draw on a corporate and organisation- centric open innovation model as a blueprint for addressing social and ecological problems. However, such problems are 'wicked' and 'com-plex' in nature and thus require concerted efforts from a diverse set of stakeholders, including businesses, government agencies, non-profits and communities. Based on a review of the open-, user- and social- innovation literature, this essay traces the evolution from an organisa-tion-centric view (OSI 1.0) to a multi-stakeholder, cross- sectoral perspective (OSI 2.0). More specifically, we understand OSI as a concerted effort undertaken by multiple stakeholders from various sectors throughout the social innovation process, from diagnosing societal challenges, to developing ideas for how to solve problems, creating solutions, effectively scaling solutions and generating impact. We sharpen the terminology for OSI 2.0 and specify design dimensions for the effective orchestration of collaboration and coordination, and outline key areas for future research. Our objective is to foster dialogue between open- and user-innovation and social-innovation research.}, language = {en} } @techreport{AngeliniZenaYorganciogluetal., type = {Working Paper}, author = {Angelini, Antonella and Zena, Al-Esia and Yorgancioglu, Ayse and Bartley, Tim and Bernaz, Nadia and Bianchini, Flaviano and Biro, Flora Panna and Bruder, Ignas and Cavara, Rachele and Cezarino, Luciana Oranges and Crane, Andrew and Giuliani, Elisa and Gustafsson, Maria-Therese and Tamara, Horbachevska and Iatridis, Kostas and Macchi, Chiara and Mair, Johanna and Mena, S{\´e}bastien and Moretti, Anna and Murray, John and Nieri, Federica and Pavlovic, Andjela and Rullani, Francesco and Uvarova, Olena and Zirpoli, Francesco}, title = {Rebalancing disruptive business of multinational corporations and global value chains within democratic and inclusive citizenship processes}, doi = {10.2139/ssrn.4569268}, abstract = {The purpose of this working paper is to conduct a comprehensive review of existing literature that explores the relationship between business organizations and democracy. This review draws from various fields, including management, business ethics, sociology, international law, and other relevant disciplines for this Project and has several objectives. Firstly, it aims to provide insight into prior research on how democratic institutions regulate economic actors and how these actors, particularly large multinational corporations (MNCs), resist such regulation. Additionally, it examines how these economic actors develop behaviors and economic models that pose challenges to democratic governance, such as business-related human rights violations. In the initial part of the review, we delve into the historical and contemporary aspects of the relationship between business and democracy. Furthermore, the report explores how companies can contribute to shaping a more democratic future by addressing gaps in governance, especially in cases where populist governments fail to protect the rights of their citizens. It also considers the development of alternative business models, such as social enterprises and cross-sector partnerships. Moreover, it looks into how businesses can actively engage in democratic governance and promote principles of participation. The final section of the working paper involves a bibliometric analysis, including co authorship, co-citation, and keyword co-occurrence maps. This analysis is based on key references used by team members in their literature reviews and is designed to examine the connections that exist among various strands of research that support the research questions of the Rebalance Project.}, language = {en} } @article{MairRathert, author = {Mair, Johanna and Rathert, Nikolas}, title = {The Political Side of Social Enterprises: A Phenomenon-Based Study of Sociocultural and Policy Advocacy}, series = {Journal of Management Studies}, journal = {Journal of Management Studies}, doi = {10.1111/joms.13134}, abstract = {This study explores the often-overlooked political dimension of social enterprises, particularly their advocacy activities aimed at influencing public policy, legislation, norms, attitudes, and behaviour. While traditional management research has focused on commercial activity and the beneficiary-oriented aspects of social enterprises, this paper considers their upstream political activity. Using a phenomenon-based approach, we analyse original survey data from 718 social enterprises across seven countries and six problem domains to identify factors associated with their engagement in advocacy. Our findings reveal that public spending and competition in social enterprises' problem domains, as well as their governance choices - legal form, sources of income, and collaborations - are significantly associated with advocacy activities. We propose a new theoretical framework to understand these dynamics, positioning social enterprises as key players in markets for public purpose. This research underscores the importance of recognizing the political activities of social enterprises and offers new insights for studying hybrid organizing and organizations that address complex societal challenges. By highlighting the integral role of advocacy, our study contributes to a more comprehensive understanding of how social enterprises drive social change, not only through direct service provision but also by shaping the broader sociopolitical environment.}, language = {en} } @article{DessyMairXhauflair, author = {Dessy, Elodie and Mair, Johanna and Xhauflair, Virginie}, title = {Organizational diversity of social-mission platforms: Advancing a configurational research agenda}, series = {Information and Organization}, volume = {34}, journal = {Information and Organization}, number = {3}, issn = {1471-7727}, doi = {10.1016/j.infoandorg.2024.100514}, abstract = {Social-mission platforms (SMPs), or platforms that facilitate the interactions between stakeholders across sectors and help them exchange resources to make progress on social and environmental problems, have emerged on a global scale. However, despite their prevalence, little is known about how SMPs organize to orchestrate collective efforts of social innovation. Taking stock of information systems and organizational literature on platforms, we identify four dimensions inherent in platform organizing (i.e., identity, boundary, governance, and technology). We then analyze three case studies to interrogate how these organizing dimensions manifest in SMPs. As a result, we offer a conceptual framework highlighting the trade-offs SMPs face, specifying the design choices they can make, and exposing the interdependences between dimensions. We further illustrate how these interdependences inform a configurational perspective of SMPs and suggest avenues to advance a configurational research agenda to deepen understanding of SMPs as effective vehicles to address Grand Challenges.}, language = {en} } @article{GeorgeErtugBapujietal., author = {George, Gerard and Ertug, Gokhan and Bapuji, Hari and Doh, Jonathan P. and Mair, Johanna and Prasad, Ajnesh}, title = {COVID-19 and Management Scholarship: Lessons for Conducting Impactful Research}, series = {Business \& Society}, volume = {63}, journal = {Business \& Society}, number = {4}, issn = {0007-6503}, doi = {10.1177/00076503241237047}, pages = {715 -- 744}, abstract = {The COVID-19 pandemic provided an opportunity for management scholars to address large-scale and complex societal problems and strive for greater practical and policy impact. A brief overview of the most-cited work on COVID-19 reveals that, compared with their counterparts in other disciplines, leading management journals and professional associations lagged in providing a platform for high-impact research on COVID-19. To help management research play a more active role in responding to similar global challenges in the future, we propose an integrative framework that emphasizes a phenomenon's impact, the conditions that the phenomenon creates at multiple levels, and the responses of actors to such conditions, as well as the dynamic relationships and interactions among these actors. By shifting attention to phenomena and their overall impact, this framework can help scholars better position their work to address large-scale and complex problems and also to assess research for its contribution to generate impact beyond academia.}, language = {en} } @misc{MairWieser, author = {Mair, Johanna and Wieser, Thomas}, title = {Lessons from Europe: 22 Essays on the Future of Our Continent}, editor = {Mair, Johanna and Wieser, Thomas}, publisher = {Verlag CSV}, isbn = {9783903461062}, pages = {328}, language = {en} } @misc{WieserMair, author = {Wieser, Thomas and Mair, Johanna}, title = {Lehren aus Europa: 22 Essays zur Zukunft unseres Kontinents}, editor = {Wieser, Thomas and Mair, Johanna}, publisher = {Verlag CSV}, isbn = {978-3-903461-05-5}, pages = {358}, language = {de} } @article{KourulaGeorgallisHenriquesetal., author = {Kourula, Arno and Georgallis, Panikos and Henriques, Irene and Mair, Johanna}, title = {Introduction to the Special Issue on the Role of Place in Sustainability: Key Trends and Agenda for Future Research}, series = {Organization \& Environment}, volume = {37}, journal = {Organization \& Environment}, number = {3}, doi = {10.1177/10860266241283157}, pages = {363 -- 375}, abstract = {This editorial reviews key themes, trends, and assumptions of organizational research on place and sustainability and introduces the special issue on the "Role of Place in Sustainability." While recent theorizing has often emphasized global issues such as grand challenges, planetary boundaries, and climate change, this special issue revisits the local by focusing on the role of place in sustainability. We discuss trends and subdomains of research on place and sustainability and identify key assumptions at the interplay between global and local perspectives. Instead of advocating for universal solutions or exclusively context-specific approaches, we highlight the concept of "senses of place," emphasizing the connections among diverse notions of place and intrinsic links to these locations. We demonstrate how the four insightful articles featured in this special issue provide a broader dialogue on place and sustainability. Finally, we outline a research agenda that identifies underexplored themes in place-based sustainability studies.}, language = {en} } @article{LechtermanMair, author = {Lechterman, Theodore M. and Mair, Johanna}, title = {Social Enterprises as Agents of Social Justice: A Rawlsian perspective on institutional capacity}, series = {Organization Studies}, volume = {45}, journal = {Organization Studies}, number = {9}, doi = {10.1177/01708406241261435}, pages = {1301 -- 1323}, abstract = {Many scholars of organizations see social enterprise as a promising approach to advancing social justice but neglect to scrutinize the normative foundations and limitations of this optimism. This article draws on Rawlsian political philosophy to investigate whether and how social enterprises can support social justice. We propose that this perspective assigns organizations a duty to foster institutional capacity, a concept we define and elaborate. We investigate how this duty might apply specifically to social enterprises, given their characteristic features. We theorize six different mechanisms through which social enterprises might successfully discharge this duty. These results affirm the value of conversation between organizational studies and political philosophy and shed new light on debates regarding social enterprise, institutional theory, and several other topics.}, language = {en} } @article{ChuaMiskaMairetal., author = {Chua, Nathania and Miska, Christof and Mair, Johanna and Stahl, G{\"u}nther K.}, title = {Purpose in Management Research: Navigating a Complex and Fragmented Area of Study}, series = {Academy of Management Annals}, volume = {18}, journal = {Academy of Management Annals}, number = {2}, doi = {10.5465/annals.2022.0186}, pages = {755 -- 787}, abstract = {Management research on "purpose" is dispersed. This is because scholars apply different perspectives on purpose, each associated with distinct approaches to its study. We find that one perspective views purpose as embedded in the business-society context or as embodied within organizations. A second perspective looks at the purpose of the organization and its purpose to specific stakeholders. We reviewed management literature on purpose conducted over the past two decades to unearth this fragmentation further and uncover possibilities for integration. We identify four themes that anchor the disjointed literature: identity, performance, objectives, and change. In addition, we organize the literature across six dimensions of purpose as a concept. Each dimension surfaces existing dichotomies in research: property, scope, stability, materiality, motive, and rationality. Both the anchoring themes and conceptual dimensions establish the groundwork for a programmatic agenda for future research, aimed to support purpose research as a distinct area of study in management.}, language = {en} } @article{PalmieMieheMairetal., author = {Palmi{\´e}, Maximilian and Mieh{\´e}, Lucas and Mair, Johanna and Wincent, Joakim}, title = {Valuation entrepreneurship through product-design and blame-avoidance strategies: How Tesla managed to change the public perception of sustainable innovations}, series = {Journal of Product Innovation Management}, journal = {Journal of Product Innovation Management}, doi = {10.1111/jpim.12732}, abstract = {Developing innovative, eco-friendlier products that gain traction in the mass market remains a persistent challenge for many firms. To bring consumers to choose "greener" alternatives over conventional products, firms need to overcome prevailing product evaluations that favor traditional solutions. Research on valuation entrepreneurship examines the strategies that actors apply to induce changes in established evaluations. Adding to the emerging literature on valuation entrepreneurship, our study analyzes how the car maker Tesla, Inc. used product design—material artifacts' properties of form and function—to advance the public perception of battery electric vehicles (BEVs). When Tesla entered the market, several firms had tried to promote BEVs as a way of making private mobility more environmentally friendly, but with limited success. In contrast, Tesla produced well-received BEVs that generated enormous consumer interest and led to a more favorable assessment of BEVs as a whole. Drawing on 54 interviews and nearly 2000 pages of archival data, our abductive study identifies three product design strategies that increased the appeal of Tesla's initial models: (1) incorporating discontinuous technological solutions; (2) optimizing the products on traditional evaluation criteria (e.g., driving performance, comfort, space, status); and (3) creating an ecosystem of complementary products. Since some design choices came at the expense of a minimal environmental footprint, they risked attracting blame for compromising on the environmental performance of potentially eco-friendly cars and for committing "greenwashing." To minimize this risk, Tesla complemented its design strategies by employing three strategies of reputational politics to avoid such blame. After Tesla's initial, lavish models had improved the public perception of electric cars, Tesla and other car makers were able to sell less excessive and more sustainable BEVs in much greater quantities than ever before. Our findings contribute to three literature streams and generate valuable insights for management practice.}, language = {en} }