2022
DOI: 10.46697/001c.31014
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Innovation for Impact: An International Business Perspective on Transforming the United Nations

Abstract: While intrapreneurship and scaling are key themes in the International Business (IB) discussion, our research is the first to show how these concepts manifest in the context of the United Nations and how learnings from IB may be transferred. The United Nations (UN) organizations are tasked with solving the world’s pressing and difficult problems. These organizations are major players in international governance and are characterized by bureaucratic, globally dispersed and politically driven structures, but are… Show more

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“…Recent research provides some powerful examples: Parente et al (2019) examine how a Chinese state-owned MNE enters and sustains operations in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in Central Africa by engaging in collective action and coevolving with key stakeholders within its business ecosystem; Gatignon (2022) investigates partnerships between non-profit and profit firms when engaging in supply chains for food in humanitarian situations and uncovers the need for task interdependence to facilitate organizational learning; Busch and Barkema (2022) find orchestration of networks is required in the scaling of social enterprises in the Sub-Saharan African emerging economy context; and Tatarinov et al (2022) show how United Nations (UN) organizations assemble the cross-sectoral ecosystems of digital solutions as these scale internationally. Such models rely on each individual organization's ability to adapt their decision-making processes and be open to collaboration with other types of organizations.…”
Section: Organization Design Challenges For Grand Challengesmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Recent research provides some powerful examples: Parente et al (2019) examine how a Chinese state-owned MNE enters and sustains operations in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in Central Africa by engaging in collective action and coevolving with key stakeholders within its business ecosystem; Gatignon (2022) investigates partnerships between non-profit and profit firms when engaging in supply chains for food in humanitarian situations and uncovers the need for task interdependence to facilitate organizational learning; Busch and Barkema (2022) find orchestration of networks is required in the scaling of social enterprises in the Sub-Saharan African emerging economy context; and Tatarinov et al (2022) show how United Nations (UN) organizations assemble the cross-sectoral ecosystems of digital solutions as these scale internationally. Such models rely on each individual organization's ability to adapt their decision-making processes and be open to collaboration with other types of organizations.…”
Section: Organization Design Challenges For Grand Challengesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The second characterization is organizational scale-conceptualized as a continuum between local and global. Global scale is important to identify and adequately address grand challenges, but without local embeddedness it will be impossible to act on the ground (George et al 2016;Ambos and Tatarinov 2022). When focusing on social problems, such as developing education programs or providing technology to detect diseases, organizations face global challenges that need to be met on a global scale.…”
Section: Organizational Design Choices and Complementaritiesmentioning
confidence: 99%
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