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TY - JOUR
T1 - Metaorganizing Collaborative Innovation for Action on Grand Challenges
AU - Callagher, L.
AU - Korber, S.
AU - Siedlok, F.
AU - Elsahn, Z.
PY - 2024/8/1
Y1 - 2024/8/1
N2 - Grand Challenges are complex issues that require collaborative innovation among heterogeneous actors who draw upon contradictory institutional logics. While existing literature shows how social enterprises and individual organizations reconcile tensions between economic and environmental logics, scholars know less about how and when a broad set of actors adopt practices and priorities that balance economic and environmental values. This article explores how three agricultural cooperatives act as metaorganizations and facilitate collaborative innovation and sustainable transitions to address grand challenges regarding land use. We find that the cooperatives stimulate awareness of environmental challenges and local experimentation, orchestrate collaborative solutions by enrolling and engaging a broad set of actors, and coordinate the diffusion of novel practices across the institutional field. We add new insights into producer cooperatives' role as metaorganizations in facilitating the creation, validation, and diffusion of practices that balance business and sustainability. Based on our findings, we argue that by metaorganizing, producer cooperatives can galvanize field-level shifts in institutional logics through framing, knowledge sharing, and knowledge brokering mechanisms.
AB - Grand Challenges are complex issues that require collaborative innovation among heterogeneous actors who draw upon contradictory institutional logics. While existing literature shows how social enterprises and individual organizations reconcile tensions between economic and environmental logics, scholars know less about how and when a broad set of actors adopt practices and priorities that balance economic and environmental values. This article explores how three agricultural cooperatives act as metaorganizations and facilitate collaborative innovation and sustainable transitions to address grand challenges regarding land use. We find that the cooperatives stimulate awareness of environmental challenges and local experimentation, orchestrate collaborative solutions by enrolling and engaging a broad set of actors, and coordinate the diffusion of novel practices across the institutional field. We add new insights into producer cooperatives' role as metaorganizations in facilitating the creation, validation, and diffusion of practices that balance business and sustainability. Based on our findings, we argue that by metaorganizing, producer cooperatives can galvanize field-level shifts in institutional logics through framing, knowledge sharing, and knowledge brokering mechanisms.
KW - Agriculture
KW - Collaboration
KW - Economics
KW - Interviews
KW - Organizations
KW - Production
KW - Sustainable development
KW - Technological innovation
KW - collaborations in technology management
KW - collective action
KW - environmental issues in technology management
KW - innovation management
KW - knowledge management
KW - knowledge transfer
U2 - 10.1109/TEM.2021.3135792
DO - 10.1109/TEM.2021.3135792
M3 - Journal article
VL - 71
SP - 11989
EP - 12000
JO - IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management
JF - IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management
SN - 1558-0040
ER -