TY - JOUR A1 - George, Gerard A1 - Ertug, Gokhan A1 - Bapuji, Hari A1 - Doh, Jonathan P. A1 - Mair, Johanna A1 - Prasad, Ajnesh T1 - COVID-19 and Management Scholarship: Lessons for Conducting Impactful Research JF - Business & Society N2 - 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. Y1 - 2024 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1177/00076503241237047 SN - 0007-6503 VL - 63 IS - 4 SP - 715 EP - 744 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Palmié, Maximilian A1 - Miehé, Lucas A1 - Mair, Johanna A1 - Wincent, Joakim T1 - Valuation entrepreneurship through product-design and blame-avoidance strategies: How Tesla managed to change the public perception of sustainable innovations JF - Journal of Product Innovation Management N2 - 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. Y1 - 2024 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1111/jpim.12732 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Gegenhuber, Thomas A1 - Mair, Johanna T1 - Open social innovation: taking stock and moving forward JF - Industry and Innovation N2 - 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. Y1 - 2024 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/13662716.2023.2271863 VL - 31 IS - 1 SP - 130 EP - 157 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Mair, Johanna A1 - Mena, Sébastien A1 - Özcelik, Melisa T1 - Political innovation: Prevention is better than cure JF - Alliance Y1 - 2023 UR - https://www.alliancemagazine.org/feature/political-innovation-prevention-is-better-than-cure/ VL - 28 IS - 4 SP - 54 EP - 56 ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Angelini, Antonella A1 - Zena, Al-Esia A1 - Yorgancioglu, Ayse A1 - Bartley, Tim A1 - Bernaz, Nadia A1 - Bianchini, Flaviano A1 - Biro, Flora Panna A1 - Bruder, Ignas A1 - Cavara, Rachele A1 - Cezarino, Luciana Oranges A1 - Crane, Andrew A1 - Giuliani, Elisa A1 - Gustafsson, Maria-Therese A1 - Tamara, Horbachevska A1 - Iatridis, Kostas A1 - Macchi, Chiara A1 - Mair, Johanna A1 - Mena, Sébastien A1 - Moretti, Anna A1 - Murray, John A1 - Nieri, Federica A1 - Pavlovic, Andjela A1 - Rullani, Francesco A1 - Uvarova, Olena A1 - Zirpoli, Francesco T1 - Rebalancing disruptive business of multinational corporations and global value chains within democratic and inclusive citizenship processes N2 - 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. Y1 - 2023 U6 - https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4569268 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Claassen, Casper Hendrik A1 - Choi, Jung Eun A1 - Mair, Johanna T1 - Forging a Local Social Economy: On the Institutional Work of Local Governments in South Korea JF - Public Performance & Management Review N2 - 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. Y1 - 2023 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/15309576.2023.2243467 SN - 1530-9576 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bünder, Tobias A1 - Rathert, Nikolas A1 - Mair, Johanna T1 - Sustaining the Integration of Social Objectives Over Time: A Case-Based Analysis of Access to Medicine in the Pharmaceutical Industry JF - Business & Society N2 - 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. Y1 - 2023 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1177/00076503231182667 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Seelos, Christian A1 - Mair, Johanna A1 - Traeger, Charlotte T1 - The future of grand challenges research: Retiring a hopeful concept and endorsing research principles JF - International Journal of Management Reviews N2 - 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. Y1 - 2023 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1111/ijmr.12324 VL - 25 IS - 2 SP - 251 EP - 269 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Mair, Johanna A1 - Gegenhuber, Thomas A1 - Thäter, Laura A1 - Lührsen, René T1 - Pathways and mechanisms for catalyzing social impact through Orchestration: Insights from an open social innovation project JF - Journal of Business Venturing Insights N2 - 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. Y1 - 2023 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbvi.2022.e00366 VL - 19 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Bünder, Tobias A1 - Rathert, Nikolas A1 - Mair, Johanna ED - George, Gerard ED - Haas, Martine ED - Joshi, Havovi ED - McGahan, Anita ED - Tracey, Paul T1 - Understanding firm- and field-level change toward sustainable development: insights from the pharmaceutical industry and access to medicines, 1960‒2020 T2 - Handbook on the Business of Sustainability N2 - 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. Y1 - 2022 SN - 9781839105333 U6 - https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839105340.00025 SP - 300 EP - 319 PB - Edward Elgar CY - Cheltenham ER -