This volume builds on the current interest in grand challenges by taking seriously the problem of 'organizing beyond organizations', The chapters engage with the unique methodological and theoretical toolkits afforded by a process studies perspective to address societal challenges that are necessarily inter-organizational.

1: Joel Gehman, Paula Jarzabkowski, Ann Langley, and Haridimos Tsoukas: Organizing beyond organizations for the common good: Confronting societal challenges through process studies 2: Stewart Clegg, Miguel Pina e Cunha, and Arménio Rego: How employee activists tackle societal issues by promoting organizational discourse-practice alignment 3: Astrid Jensen, Cindie Maagaard, and Heidi Jensen: Employee actions beyond organizational borders: A narrative analysis of the communicative constitution of CSR communication 4: Shaheem de Vries and Kosheek Sewchurran: Could legitimizing a process organizing ethos on the frontline of civil service lead to more sustainable outcomes? 5: Helen Etchanchu: Why won't you listen to me? How actors construct discursive legitimacy in issue fields 6: Daniel Nyberg, Vanessa Bowden, and Christopher Wright: Organizing disorganization: The isolation, separation, and polarization of climate change demands 7: Benjamin D. Innis and Jean M. Bartunek: Soundtracking, accompaniment, and modelling: How the cultural production of music addresses societal challenges 8: Jane K. Lê and Amadou Lô: Snorkelling masks to breathe: How urgency enables inter-organizational responses to paradoxical grand challenges 9: Natalie Slawinski, Jennifer Brenton, Bruna Brito, and Wendy Smith: Navigating the paradoxes of engaged research to address grand challenges: A process model 10: Jill Purdy and Barbara Gray: Addressing cross-level challenges in designing multistakeholder partnerships

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).

Offers a process perspective on grand challenges Focuses on approaches that extend beyond single organizations Provides insight into the management of the tensions and paradoxes inherent in grand challenges