254: Navigating Spatial Approaches to Address Grand Challenges (16738)

Saturday, August 10, 2024

08:00 – 10:00 CT (GMT-5/UTC-5)

Location: Fairmont: Regent Room

Session Number: 254
PDW (workshop)
Orientation: Research,Diversity
Shareable link: https://cdmcd.co/vaBnr8

Organizer(s)

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Kathleen Ann Stephenson

Vrije U. Amsterdam, School of Business and Economics, Netherlands

Facilitator(s)

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Boukje Cnossen

Leuphana U. Lüneburg, Germany
TD

Thomas Davis

Manchester Metropolitan U., United Kingdom
AD

Andreas Diedrich

U. of Gothenburg, Sweden
LD

Laura E. Dupin

Amsterdam Business School, U. of Amsterdam, Netherlands
CF

Corinna Frey

Erasmus U. Rotterdam, Netherlands
SG

Stephanie Giamporcaro

Nottingham Trent U., United Kingdom
AH

Alison Hirst

Anglia Ruskin U.
MH

Markus A. Höllerer

UNSW Sydney & WU Vienna, Australia
JH

Jeannie Holstein

U. of Nottingham, United Kingdom
AR

Anniina Rantakari

U. of Oulu, Finland

Organizer(s)

AM

Alessandra Migliore

Politecnico di Milano, Italy
TR

Tania Ulrike Räcker

U. of Zurich, Switzerland

Panelist(s)

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Timon Beyes

Leuphana U. Lüneburg
KE

Kimberly D. Elsbach

U. of California, Davis, United States
GI

Gemma Irving

U. of Queensland, Australia
LP

Linda L. Putnam

U. of California, Santa Barbara, United States
DS

David Nils Seidl

U. of Zurich, Switzerland
AS

Andre Spicer

City U. London, United Kingdom

Spatial approaches have become increasingly popular among management scholars to address a wide range of empirical puzzles. The proliferation of remote work, platform technologies, and human mobility has required scholars to consider how work and organizing are fundamentally spatial. Over the past 20 years, management scholars have developed a range of theoretical approaches to examine organizational space that vary in assumptions, frameworks, and ways of engaging with empirical phenomena. In recent years, researchers have begun drawing on spatial theorizing to address grand challenges, such as the climate crisis, natural and human-made catastrophes, refugee and migrant crises, inequality, and decent work among many others. Although spatial approaches have helped scholars grapple with grand challenges, the diversity of theoretical foundations creates both problems and opportunities for the advancement of grand challenges research. Given the demand for spatial theorizing in addressing grand challenges, the time is right for management scholars to come together, examine the merits, opportunities, and limitations of various spatial approaches, and begin working together to address these complex problems. This PDW brings together many of the key theorists of organizational space as well as researchers who are deploying their concepts, frameworks, and assumptions to address grand challenges.