Grand Challenges and Inductive Methods: Rigor without Rigor Mortis

Eisenhardt, Kathleen M.; Graebner, Melissa E.; Sonenshein, Scott

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“…First, I contribute to the emerging, yet empirically still under-researched, theory of resource orchestration. I show that this strategic management approach can be usefully applied to the city and BID context, not only shedding new light on the question of value creation in places, but also proving that our discipline can provide answers for understanding and tackling grand societal challenges (Eisenhardt et al, 2016;George, Howard-Grenville, Joshi & Tihanyi, 2016 Second, this dissertation contributes to SC research. Though recent literature has explicitly recognized the importance of distinguishing the different types of bonding, bridging and linking SC, the empirical operationalization of this theoretical distinction has thus far remained underdeveloped (Coffé & Geys, 2007).…”

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“…Climate change, aging infrastructures, and inclusive economic growth are some of the most pressing issues. Though these issues may vary in type and severity from city to city, there is a unanimous sense of growing urgency that they need to be addressed as part of the 'grand challenges' the world is facing (Eisenhardt, Graebner & Sonenshein, 2016). In this context, many cities around the globe have started to develop e.g.…”

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Resource orchestration as a source of competitive advantage for cities

Berseck

Knyphausen‐Aufseß

2018

Managementforschung

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-DeutschInmitten des aktuellen Urbanisierungstrends bietet diese Dissertation eine Antwort auf den Mere resources are frequently insufficient to generate competitiveness in our increasingly demanding world; urban administrators, policymakers and other practitioners concerned with the management of their place need capabilities to use resources efficiently while adapting to their changing environments. Therefore, I argue for the value of extending the resource-based theory -especially, its dynamic refinement, the theory of resource orchestration -to answer the question how places can achieve a sustainable competitive advantage. I develop a fourstep process framework of strategically managing resources and developing capabilities that includes (a) structuring their resource portfolio, (b) bundling resources to capabilities, (c) leveraging capability configurations and (d) continuously synchronizing each activity.I try to give this model its specific urban shape by zooming into the city and empirically applying it to the internationally growing urban governance tool of Business Improvement Districts (BIDs). The first empirical study emphasizes one particularly important, placespecific resource, namely social capital, and examines the unique relationships between social capital and resource bundling based on archival, interview and direct observation data of 12BIDs in New York City. The findings suggest that each component of the resource bundling process mediates between social capital and the BID's capability to function as community development entity. Contents IVThe second empirical study focusses on capability leveraging and elaborates this resource orchestration step in the context of 15 BID-government relationships in the City of Hamburg.This chapter advances qualitative research to disentangle the actual processes of strategy development, coordination and implementation between public and private actors. It identifies different leveraging approaches and collaborative outcomes depending on the social capital configurations of the BID-government relationships. By focusing on the partnerships' networks of relationships, inherent interests and capabilities that enable (or inhibit) public and private actors to work together, the study makes an important contribution to the literature, theorizing the entire process of how public-private collaborations are strategically managed.Combined, this dissertation informs theory and practice on the strategic management of cities and BIDs. The focus shifts from viewing them as black box, through which certain inputs flow to become outputs, towards the development of capabilities for policymakers, administrators and practitioners that allow them to utilize resources efficiently and establish structures to work collaboratively. Hereby, I show and explain how places can affect their development trajectories through conscious managerial actions taken to increase their performance.

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Resource orchestration as a source of competitive advantage for cities

Berseck

Knyphausen‐Aufseß

2018

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“…to case research that is in sharp contrast to the two prime templates, which prejudge "the" case as an instance of the theory the scholars are inductively developing (Eisenhardt et al, 2016).…”

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Facing the Normative Challenges: The Potential of Reflexive Historical Research

Stutz

Sachs

2016

Business & Society

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This article explores methodological problems of qualitative research templates, that is, the Eisenhardt and the Gioia case study approaches, which are relevant for the business and society (B&S) scholarship and outlines a reflexive historical research methodology that has the potential to face these challenges. Building on Hans-Georg Gadamer’s philosophical hermeneutics, we draw critical attention to qualitative B&S research and frame the methodological problems identified as the normative challenges of qualitative research, that is, to productively deal with both the researchers’ norms and the research subjects’ norms. We then introduce the reflexive historical case study (RHCS), a distinct research strategy to face normative challenges based on philosophical hermeneutics and the interpretive tradition of studying organizations. This research approach aims at theory elaboration while its mode of enquiry is reflexive. By explicating three of its key characteristics and using a case example to illustrate our approach, we demonstrate how B&S scholars can benefit from the “temporal filter” of the historical lens and from reflexive concerns about the nature of theory and empirical material. To tap the potential of historical research, we finally envision a research program for studying issues and debates associated with B&S scholarship.

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“…The article is based on 'unexpected perspectives' that emerged from some 'extreme cases' (Eisenhardt et al 2016(Eisenhardt et al , p. 1115(Eisenhardt et al and p. 1118. These cases derived from an exploratory, ethnographic research investigation into how personal values are practised (Gehman et al 2013;Hemingway 2005) within a Forbes Global 2000 and FTSE 100 company.…”

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A Falling of the Veils: Turning Points and Momentous Turning Points in Leadership and the Creation of CSR

Hemingway

Starkey

2017

J Bus Ethics

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This article uses the life stories approach to leadership and leadership development. Using exploratory, qualitative data from a Forbes Global 2000 and FTSE 100 company, we discuss the role of the turning point (TP) as an important antecedent of leadership in corporate social responsibility. We argue that TPs are causally efficacious, linking them to the development of life narratives concerned with an evolving sense of personal identity. Using both a multi-disciplinary perspective and a multi-level focus on CSR leadership, we identify four narrative cases. We propose that they helped to re-define individuals' sense of self and in some extreme cases completely transformed their self-identity as leaders of CSR. Hence, we also distinguish the momentous turning point (MTP) that created a seismic shift in personality, through re-evaluation of the individuals' personal values. We argue that whilst TPs are developmental experiences that can produce responsible leadership, the MTP changes the individuals' personal priorities in life to produce responsible leadership that perhaps did not exist previously. Thus, we appropriate Maslow's (Religions, values and peak experiences, Penguin, New York, 1976, p 77) metaphorical phrase 'A falling of the veils' from his discussion of peak and desolation experiences that produce personal growth. Using a multi-disciplinary literature from social theory (Archer in The reflexive imperative in late modernity, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2012) moral psychology (Narvaez, in: Narvaez, Lapsley (eds) Personality, identity and character: explorations in moral psychology, Cambridge University Press, New York, 2009) and social psychology (Schwartz, in: Mikulincer, Shaver (eds) Prosocial motives, emotions, and behaviour: the better angels of our nature, American Psychological Association, Washington, 2010), we present a theoretical model that illustrates the psychological process of the (M)TP, thus contributing to the growing literature on the microfoundations of CSR.

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Grand Challenges and Inductive Methods: Rigor without Rigor Mortis

Cited by 808 publications

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Resource orchestration as a source of competitive advantage for cities

Resource orchestration as a source of competitive advantage for cities

Facing the Normative Challenges: The Potential of Reflexive Historical Research

A Falling of the Veils: Turning Points and Momentous Turning Points in Leadership and the Creation of CSR

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