Enacting a grand challenge for business and society: Theorizing issue maturation in the media-based public discourse on COVID-19 in three national contexts
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| Title: | Enacting a grand challenge for business and society: Theorizing issue maturation in the media-based public discourse on COVID-19 in three national contexts |
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| Authors: | Schwoon, Bennet, Schoeneborn, Dennis, Scherer, Andreas Georg |
| Source: | Schwoon, Bennet; Schoeneborn, Dennis; Scherer, Andreas Georg (2022). Enacting a grand challenge for business and society: Theorizing issue maturation in the media-based public discourse on COVID-19 in three national contexts. Business & Society:000765032211104-0007650. ; ftunivzuerich |
| Publisher Information: | Sage Publications |
| Publication Year: | 2022 |
| Subject Terms: | Department of Business Administration, 330 Economics, COVID-19, discourse quality, framing dynamics, grand societal challenges, social problem work, socio, hisphilso |
| Description: | While today it is universally acknowledged that COVID-19 has generated immense challenges for businesses and societies worldwide, public perceptions varied significantly at the time of the pandemic’s initial appearance, even among democratic societies with comparable media systems. The growing scholarship on grand societal challenges in management and organization studies, however, tends to neglect the initial social construction of issues as complex, uncertain, evaluative, and widespread. We address this shortcoming by exploring the initial communicative enactment of COVID-19 in the media-based public discourse in Switzerland, Germany, and the United Kingdom. By applying a social problem work lens, we identify three mechanisms that explain the maturation of COVID-19 into a grand challenge, further showing how these are contextually dependent on differences in discourse quality. We add to research on grand challenges, issue maturation, and framing dynamics by theorizing how issues become constructed and acknowledged as grand challenges in the first place. |
| Document Type: | article in journal/newspaper review |
| Language: | English |
| Relation: | https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/232043/1/Covid-19.pdf; https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/232043/ |
| Availability: | https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/232043/1/Covid-19.pdf https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/232043/ |
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| Accession Number: | edsbas.B69D1AFC |
| Database: | BASE |
Nájsť tento článok vo Web of Science | Abstract: | While today it is universally acknowledged that COVID-19 has generated immense challenges for businesses and societies worldwide, public perceptions varied significantly at the time of the pandemic’s initial appearance, even among democratic societies with comparable media systems. The growing scholarship on grand societal challenges in management and organization studies, however, tends to neglect the initial social construction of issues as complex, uncertain, evaluative, and widespread. We address this shortcoming by exploring the initial communicative enactment of COVID-19 in the media-based public discourse in Switzerland, Germany, and the United Kingdom. By applying a social problem work lens, we identify three mechanisms that explain the maturation of COVID-19 into a grand challenge, further showing how these are contextually dependent on differences in discourse quality. We add to research on grand challenges, issue maturation, and framing dynamics by theorizing how issues become constructed and acknowledged as grand challenges in the first place. |
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