Engaging with Grand Challenges: An Institutional Logics Perspective

Gümüşay, Ali Aslan; Claus, Laura; Amis, John

doi:10.1177/2631787720960487

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“…The most ‘experienced’ grant and impact providers are at odds with the funding agencies who are viewed as being myopic in their focus on the pandemic and overlooking the potential negative consequences that this narrower focus may have on other areas and researchers. While researchers are aware of their responsibility to society to examine current phenomena, such as the pandemic ( George et al., 2016 ; Gümüsay et al., 2020 ), they also have their eye on longer-run issues facing society; policymakers will need to consider carefully how to refocus funding priorities towards such issues in the future.…”

Section: Discussion Policy Implications and Recommendationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Two significant groups – both the group that has historically had the greatest impact, as captured by authorship of impact case studies and publications that embedded the ‘societal impact’ agenda, and early career researchers – felt particularly concerned, worrying that work contributing to addressing economic and societal issues, including the grand challenges humanity faces ( Buckley et al., 2017 ; George et al., 2016 ; Gümüsay et al., 2020 ; Lowe and Phillipson, 2006 ), may be undermined. Funders may need to ensure that there is a balance struck between pandemic and non-pandemic work and that this is communicated clearly to researchers.…”

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confidence: 99%

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The unintended consequences of the pandemic on non-pandemic research activities

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Research about the Covid-19 pandemic has taken center stage in shaping the work of many scholars, inter alia highlighting the importance of research in addressing the grand challenges humanity faces. However, the pandemic has also ushered in increased administrative, teaching and out of work commitments for many researchers, leading to concerns that academics will become less willing to invest time in obtaining resources to undertake non-Covid-related projects. Using a large-scale survey of business, economics and management researchers, coupled with their publication histories and additional institutional data, we examine how far individuals experienced the focus on the pandemic as ‘crowding out’ interest in, and undermining their confidence in applying for grants for work not focused on the pandemic. We found 40% of the sample agree that the pandemic has impaired their confidence in applying for non-pandemic-related grants and ‘crowded out’ other projects. Researchers with current and prior grants, particularly those with the most experience of holding grants, scholars whose work ‘impacted’ beyond academia, and early career researchers, disproportionately considered themselves to be most affected. We also found that researchers’ perceptions differed based on institutional characteristics. We discuss the implications of these findings for grant providers and national research agencies as well as for individual academic researchers and the institutions in which they work.

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The unintended consequences of the pandemic on non-pandemic research activities

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“…3 Dominant logics are those that take precedence in an institutional field (Gümüsay et al, 2020). As the boundaries of institutional fields (which in this instance is the supply network) interplay and overlap, a paradigm shift can occur if alternative logics form and transform the dominant logics of another field.…”

Section: Institutional Logicsmentioning

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The institutional logic of the sustainable organisation: the case of a chocolate supply network

Loughlin

Meehan

2021

IJOPM

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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine how, and by whom, institutional logics are determined in the action of sustainable organisation. The authors analyse a supply chain network structure to understand how multiple stakeholders' perceptions of sustainability emerge into a dominant logic and diffuse across an organisational field.Design/methodology/approachStakeholder network theory provides novel insights into emerging logics within a chocolate supply chain network. Semi-structured interviews with 35 decision-makers were analysed alongside 269 company documents to capture variations in emergent logics. The network was mapped to include 63 nodes and 366 edges to analyse power structure and mechanisms.FindingsThe socio-economic organising principles of sustainable organisation, their sources of power and their logics are identified. Economic and social logics are revealed, yet the dominance of economic logics creates risks to their coexistence. Logics are largely shaped in pre-competitive activities, and resource fitness to collaborative clusters limits access for non-commercial actors.Research limitations/implicationsPowerful firms use network structures and collaborative and concurrent inter-organisational relationships to define and diffuse their conceptualisation of sustainability and restrict competing logics.Originality/valueThis novel study contributes to sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) through presenting the socio-economic logic as a new conceptual framework to understand the action of sustainable organisation. The identification of sophisticated mechanisms of power and hegemonic control in the network opens new research agendas.

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“…If we are to respond to such critiques, then we will need more multifaceted research designs that enable researchers to capture complex data that reflect what happens in organizations across different settings. This issue has been rendered more acute by calls for scholars to investigate societal concerns such as ‘grand challenges’ that are often viewed to be so complex as to be intractable (Ferraro et al ., 2015; George et al ., 2016; Gümüsay et al ., 2020a). This further emphasizes the need for research teams to reflect these demands.…”

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Contextual Expertise and the Development of Organization and Management Theory

Gümüşay

Amis

2020

European Management Review

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Generating theory from research settings requires researchers to adeptly engage with the social intricacies of the field. They need to develop a contextual understanding by gaining in‐depth insights into the setting, while retaining a critical distance from it. Researchers must practice this along the entire research journey, from site selection, through data collection and analyses, to theory development and explanation. However, contextual expertise has been assumed rather than actively considered as a critical component in organization and management studies. We lay out steps for understanding the nature of contextual expertise, offer systematic advice for research projects and outline methodological practices across the research process to choose, capture, comprehend, convey, and confirm contextual specificities. The growing social complexity of research settings renders the development of contextual expertise increasingly important for the generation of enriched and more diverse theory. It also has implications for organization and management studies as a scientific community.

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Engaging with Grand Challenges: An Institutional Logics Perspective

Cited by 84 publications

References 90 publications

The unintended consequences of the pandemic on non-pandemic research activities

The unintended consequences of the pandemic on non-pandemic research activities

The institutional logic of the sustainable organisation: the case of a chocolate supply network

Contextual Expertise and the Development of Organization and Management Theory

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