Johanna Ayrault, Dennis Jancsary, and Stephan Leixnering have organized a symposium at the 83^rd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, August 4-8, 2023, in Boston.

The symposium included an international group of renowned panelists including Joel Gehman (The George Washington University), Barbara Gray (Pennsylvania State University), Marina Linnenluecke (University of Technology Sydney), Renate Meyer (WU Vienna & CBS Copenhagen), and Ignacio Pavez (Pontificia Universidad Católica De Chile).

The panel offered insights on grand challenges as wicked problems requiring collaboration across sets of diverse and interdependent actors rather than isolated individual or collective actors. By bringing together scholars representing different perspectives on collaboration and cooperation, the panel symposium shed further light on the varied relational aspects of solutions to current societal challenges, addressing both opportunities and pitfalls. Embracing new and meaningful relationships, it deepened the conversation between scholars with shared interests but distinct approaches, and opened up avenues for mutual inspiration, learning, and future collaboration.