Organizing beyond Organizations for the Common Good : Confronting Societal Challenges through Process Studies

Understanding the societal consequences of organizations is a perennial, if sometimes neglected, concern within the field of organization studies.Recently, such concerns have been given renewed emphasis, with one vibrant stream of research focusing on 'grand challenges', particularly those with a strong societal component, directed at a common good beyond that of business organizations themselves.This might include issues such as sustainable development, natural disasters and pandemics, poverty, community regeneration, and climate change.This volume builds on the current interest in grand challenges by taking seriously the problem of 'organizing beyond organizations', and by engaging with the unique methodological and theoretical toolkits afforded by a process studies perspective to address these issues.Societal challenges are inherently inter-organizational, necessitating theoretical approaches that not only examine organizational action but also frame that action in terms of its wide