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Title Strategic Responses to Grand Challenges: Why and How Corporations Build Community Resilience
ID_Doc 76419
Authors Hamann, R; Makaula, L; Ziervogel, G; Shearing, C; Zhang, A
Title Strategic Responses to Grand Challenges: Why and How Corporations Build Community Resilience
Year 2020
Published Journal Of Business Ethics, 161, 4
DOI 10.1007/s10551-019-04345-y
Abstract We explore why and how corporations seek to build community resilience as a strategic response to grand challenges. Based on a comparative case study analysis of four corporations strategically building community resilience in five place-based communities in South Africa, as well as three counterfactual cases, we develop a process model of corporate practices and contingent factors that explain why and how some corporations commit to community resilience building and whether they try to do so directly or indirectly. We thus help explain corporations' strategic contributions to community resilience, and we emphasise the role of place-specific resources, social-ecological system viability, and limited statehood in motivating such organisational responses to grand challenges.
Author Keywords Community resilience; Grand challenges; Corporate strategy; Social-ecological systems; Africa
Index Keywords Index Keywords
Document Type Other
Open Access Open Access
Source Social Science Citation Index (SSCI)
EID WOS:000511931600007
WoS Category Business; Ethics
Research Area Business & Economics; Social Sciences - Other Topics
PDF https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10551-019-04345-y.pdf
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