Grand challenges are system-wide problems. While top-down approaches to mitigating grand challenges may have potentially far-reaching impact, such initiatives from the higher scales can fail because of limited knowledge of ground realities. At the same time, resilient local efforts to address societal challenges can have limited reach. How can a grassroots organization work across locations and scales to address a grand challenge? We report the findings of a longitudinal case study of the Child In Need Institute (CINI), a non-profit organization that successfully scaled its impact to reach over seven million beneficiaries. Based on 40 years of archival data and four years of intensive fieldwork, our findings reveal “double weaving” as a recursive process of diagnosing and addressing problems by connecting actors and resources across locations and scales. The double-weaving process gives researchers a framework to explore the complex interplay between locations and scales that is necessary to address grand challenges. Our study contributes to research on grand challenges and scaling, advancing the spatial turn in organizational studies by developing the scalar dimension and expanding research that has primarily focused on locations.

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双重编织：连接地点和规模以应对重大挑战的自下而上的过程

重大挑战是系统范围的问题。虽然缓解重大挑战的自上而下的方法可能会产生深远的影响，但由于对实际情况的了解有限，此类更高规模的举措可能会失败。与此同时，应对社会挑战的弹性地方努力的范围可能有限。基层组织如何跨地点和跨规模开展工作以应对重大挑战？我们报告了贫困儿童研究所 (CINI) 的纵向案例研究的结果，该研究所是一家非营利组织，成功扩大其影响力，惠及超过 700 万受益人。基于 40 年的档案数据和 4 年的深入实地考察，我们的研究结果表明，“双重编织”是一个通过跨地点和规模连接参与者和资源来诊断和解决问题的递归过程。双重编织过程为研究人员提供了一个框架来探索解决重大挑战所必需的位置和尺度之间复杂的相互作用。我们的研究有助于研究重大挑战和规模，通过开发标量维度和扩展主要关注位置的研究来推进组织研究的空间转向。