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Dittrich, Katharina (2022) Scale in research on grand challenges. In: Gümüsay, A. A. and Marti, Emilio and Tritten-Ulbrich, Hannah and Wickert, Christopher, (eds.) Organizing for Societal Grand Challenges. Research in the Sociology of Organizations, 79 . Bingley: Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., pp. 187-203. ISBN 9781839098291
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1108/S0733-558X20220000079016
Abstract
Scalar terms, such as “local” and “global,” “big” and “small” are fundamental in how academics and practitioners make sense of and respond to grand challenges. Yet, scale is so taken-for-granted that we rarely question or critically reflect on the concept and how it is used. The aim of this paper is to identify scale as an important concept in research on grand challenges and to point out why taking scale for granted can be problematic. In particular, I suggest that to date most research on grand challenges sees scale as a fundamental ontological feature of the world. Yet, scalar categories and hierarchies are not as self-evident and given as they may seem. Moreover, taking scale as an ontological fixed category limits our ability to make sense of, theorize and respond to grand challenges. As an alternative, I suggest seeing scale as an epistemological frame that participants employ in their everyday practices to make sense of, navigate and develop solutions to grand challenges. The chapter concludes with a research agenda for studying scale as socially constructed in practice.
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School | ||||||
| Series Name: | Research in the Sociology of Organizations | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Research in the Sociology of Organizations | ||||||
| Publisher: | Emerald Group Publishing Ltd. | ||||||
| Place of Publication: | Bingley | ||||||
| ISBN: | 9781839098291 | ||||||
| ISSN: | 0733-558X | ||||||
| Book Title: | Organizing for Societal Grand Challenges | ||||||
| Editor: | Gümüsay, A. A. and Marti, Emilio and Tritten-Ulbrich, Hannah and Wickert, Christopher | ||||||
| Official Date: | 29 March 2022 | ||||||
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| Volume: | 79 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 187-203 | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.1108/S0733-558X20220000079016 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
| Description: | Book series |
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| Date of first compliant deposit: | 23 November 2020 | ||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 20 January 2022 | ||||||
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