Strategic responses to grand challenges: why and how corporations build community resilience
We explore why and how corporations seek to build community resilience as a strategic response to grand challenges. Based on a comparative case study analysis of four corporations strategically building community resilience in five place-based communities in South Africa, as well as three counterfac...
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| author | Hamann, Ralph Makaula, Lulamile Ziervogel, Gina Shearing, Clifford Zhang, Alan |
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| description | We explore why and how corporations seek to build community resilience as a strategic response to grand challenges. Based on a comparative case study analysis of four corporations strategically building community resilience in five place-based communities in South Africa, as well as three counterfactual cases, we develop a process model of corporate practices and contingent factors that explain why and how some corporations commit to community resilience building and whether they try to do so directly or indirectly. We thus help explain corporations’ strategic contributions to community resilience, and we emphasise the role of place-specific resources, social-ecological system viability, and limited statehood in motivating such organisational responses to grand challenges. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1265322022-10-01T00:58:42Z Strategic responses to grand challenges: why and how corporations build community resilience Hamann, Ralph Makaula, Lulamile Ziervogel, Gina Shearing, Clifford Zhang, Alan Sloan School of Management We explore why and how corporations seek to build community resilience as a strategic response to grand challenges. Based on a comparative case study analysis of four corporations strategically building community resilience in five place-based communities in South Africa, as well as three counterfactual cases, we develop a process model of corporate practices and contingent factors that explain why and how some corporations commit to community resilience building and whether they try to do so directly or indirectly. We thus help explain corporations’ strategic contributions to community resilience, and we emphasise the role of place-specific resources, social-ecological system viability, and limited statehood in motivating such organisational responses to grand challenges. 2020-08-11T14:58:18Z 2020-08-11T14:58:18Z 2019-11-18 2018-09 2020-06-26T12:33:13Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 1573-0697 0167-4544 https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/126532 Hamann, Ralph et al. "Strategic responses to grand challenges: why and how corporations build community resilience." Journal of Business Ethics 161 (November 2019): 835-853 doi 10.1007/s10551-019-04345-y en 10.1007/s10551-019-04345-y Journal of Business Ethics Creative Commons Attribution https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ The Author(s) application/pdf Springer Netherlands Springer Netherlands |
| spellingShingle | Hamann, Ralph Makaula, Lulamile Ziervogel, Gina Shearing, Clifford Zhang, Alan Strategic responses to grand challenges: why and how corporations build community resilience |
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