We advance research on how businesses engage with the complex social problems currently known as Grand Challenges. We study the concepts that preceded the term Grand Challenges, the connected ontologies that ground them, and the diversity of perspectives they offered. We construct a knowledge map that includes well-researched obstacles, such as governance obstacles hindering engagement and sensemaking obstacles limiting the ideation of novel and creative efforts. But we also build on prior research to identify curation obstacles, which precede engagement and define which problems receive social attention, and adaptation obstacles, which create uncertainty over workable solutions and bias the momentum of social systems toward the status quo. Our broader view on the obstacles defining Grand Challenges opens new pathways and identifies underexplored levers by which to understand and influence business engagement with complex social problems.

我们推进关于企业如何应对目前被称为“大挑​​战”的复杂社会问题的研究。我们研究了术语“大挑战”之前的概念，将它们作为基础的连接本体，以及它们提供的视角的多样性。我们构建了一个知识图谱，其中包括经过充分研究的障碍，例如阻碍参与的治理障碍和限制新颖和创造性努力构想的意义构建障碍。但我们也在先前研究的基础上确定了参与之前的策展障碍，并定义了哪些问题受到社会关注，以及适应障碍，这给可行的解决方案带来了不确定性，并使社会系统的势头偏向于现状。我们对定义大挑战的障碍的更广泛观点开辟了新的途径，并确定了未充分探索的杠杆，通过这些杠杆来理解和影响企业参与复杂的社会问题。