Strategic responses to grand challenges: why and how corporations build community resilience

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 counterfac...

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Main Authors: Hamann, Ralph (Author), Makaula, Lulamile (Author), Ziervogel, Gina (Author), Shearing, Clifford (Author), Zhang, Alan (Author)
Other Authors: Sloan School of Management (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer Netherlands, 2020-08-11T14:58:18Z.
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