Organizer: Arne Kroeger, Aalto U., Department of Management Studies
Organizer: Nicole Siebold, Otto von Guericke U. Magdeburg
Organizer: Franziska Günzel-Jensen, Aarhus School of Business and Social Sciences
Organizer: Steffen Korsgaard, U. of Southern Denmark
Distinguished Speaker: Tyler Wry, The Wharton School, U. of Pennsylvania
Discussant: Ali Aslan Gümüsay, U. of Hamburg
Discussant: Emilio Marti, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus U.
Discussant: Hannah Trittin, Leuphana U. Lüneburg
Discussant: Ninna Meier, Aalborg U.
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| Societal grand challenges (GCs) appear on a global scale and require joint efforts by governments, private and public organizations. Grand challenges are described in the United Nation’s Sustainably Development Goals (SDGs), which are operationalized in the “Global indicator framework for the Sustainable Development Goals”. However, the SDGs and their corresponding indicators and target values are confined to the global scale and are not immediately actionable for organizations whose contribution is vital to adequately address them. As a result, social entrepreneurs that aim to contribute to the SDGs may struggle (i) to convert the SDG’s into practical activities and strategies and (ii) to connect their individual organizational social outcomes to the global scale of the SDGs. These two aspects represent a distinct challenge for the research community that needs to be answered by the development of new research avenues and questions that not only describe and understand how social enterprises can operationalize and contribute to the SDG’s, but also create impact by fostering and facilitating this process through engaged and committed research. This challenge serves as the motivation and purpose of the Professional Development Workshop. The approach of the workshop is to facilitate a process using creativity techniques to develop new research avenues and questions to understand and enable the process of operationalizing the SDG’s for social enterprises. |