Organizing beyond Organizations for the Common Good

Joel Gehman is the Lindner-Gambal Professor in the Department of Strategic Management and Public Policy at the George Washington University School of Business. His research investigates how organizations can contribute to tackling grand challenges related to sustainable development through strategic practices, technological innovation, and institutional change. He is the author of more than 50 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters and more than a dozen business school teaching cases. Paula Jarzabkowski is Professor of Strategic Management at the University of Queensland and City St George's, University of London. Her research takes a qualitative, practice theory lens to understanding how people in organizations address the complex problems or 'grand challenges' affecting society. She has published this work in over 100 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, three research monographs, and several edited books and journals. Paula is a Fellow of both the Academy of Management and the British Academy. Ann Langley is Emerita Professor at HEC Montréal and Distinguished Research Environment Professor at the University of Warwick. Her research deals with strategic processes and practices in complex organizations with an emphasis on qualitative research methods. She has published over 100 articles and 14 books. She is currently Deputy Editor for qualitative research at the Academy of Management Journal, and co-editor, with Haridimos Tsoukas, of the OUP book series 'Perspectives on Process Organization Studies'. Haridimos Tsoukas is the Columbia Ship Management Professor of Strategic Management at the University of Cyprus and a Distinguished Research Environment Professor of Organizational Behaviour at Warwick Business School. His research interests include organizational knowledge, organizational becoming, practical reason in management studies, and philosophy and organization studies. With Ann Langley, he is co-editor of the OUP book series 'Perspectives on Process Organization Studies', and is author of several books including Philosophical Organization Theory (OUP, 2019).